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Bicol River dredging up
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will start tomorrow the dredging of sandbars on a narrow section of the 94-kilometer Bicol River, DENR Secretary and Task Force Build Back Better (TF BBB) Chairman ...
- March 22, 2021
Agreement signed to dredge Cagayan River
A memorandum of agreement (MOA) has been signed between the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), a provincial inter-agency committee on the rehabilitation of Cagayan River, and two private parties to ...
- December 12, 2020
PH quietly celebrates May as Month of the Ocean
By virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 37 issued by President Joseph Ejercito Estrada in 1999, the month of May was declared as the Month of the Ocean (MOO). Perhaps preoccupied by the pressing demands of containing a ...
- May 11, 2021
PH imports 93% of salt supply - DA
Despite being surrounded by seawater, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said the Philippines has been importing 93 percent of its salt supply. “[It is] an unfortunate circumstance to a country with 36,000 kilometers of ...
- August 31, 2022
Company continues watershed programs
The Alsons Power Group, Mindanao's first private sector power generator, is poised to continue its various corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects for 2020. " The core focus for all of our CSR projects has always ...
- January 30, 2020
Manila Bay's rehab to continue; replenish dolomite sand - PRRD
President Duterte has directed concerned authorities to step up efforts to restore Manila Bay to its former glory after years of pollution. The Manila Bay rehabilitation efforts will include the continued replenishment of ...
- July 28, 2021
Manila Bay crushed dolomite overlay still intact, says DENR
An official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Wednesday maintained that the dolomite used as part of its beach nourishment project was not washed out but only covered by black sand due to ...
- October 29, 2020
Mayor Isko: Set aside politics in Manila Bay beautification
Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso on Saturday urged the public to set aside politics as various individuals and groups continue to raise health and environment concerns following the dolomite dumping in Manila ...
- September 20, 2020
MGB clears miners, quarries of blame on Marikina River flooding
Mining operations within the Marikina River Basin should not be blamed for the massive flooding that engulfed some parts of Marikina and Rizal province during the onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses, the deadliest and most ...
- February 17, 2021
Manila Bay's water quality improving a year after rehab
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said water quality of major outfalls directly draining to Manila Bay significantly improved, a year after the previously polluted watershed started to be rehabilitated. ...
- January 25, 2020