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    • Can 'weak' El Niño trigger coral bleaching epidemic? 

      Mercado, Juan L. (The Philippine Star, December 8, 2002, on page 12)
      Will this year's "weak" El Niño trigger another round of mysterious "bleaching" that savaged economically-vital coral reefs in a clocklike-wave of infection in 1998?. Scientists J. H. Primavera and E.D. Gomez have documented ...
    • Kapiz shell industry being revived 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, July 7, 2002, on page B-4)
      The country's kapiz (window pane oyster) shell industry, which dwindled to near extinction in recent years owing to overexploitation of this mollusk, is well on its way to being revived. Spearheading the move is the ...