Browsing The Philippine Star by Subject "Oceans"

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    • ADB offers assistance to develop El Nido, Coron 

      Valencia, Czeriza (The Philippine Star, October 24, 2019, on page B4)
      The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will extend financing solutions for the development of sustainable tourism in El Nido and Coron in Palawan province. The multilateral bank is now working with the Department of Tourism (DOT) ...

    • Australia works with Phl in coral reef restoration 

      Lee-Brago, Pia; Ronda, Rainier Allan (The Philippine Star, September 25, 2023, on page 4)
      Australia continues to work with the Philippines on protecting the marine environment through coral reef restoration, Australian Ambassador HK Yu said yesterday. Yu welcomed the signing of the UN High Seas Biodiversity ...

    • Bardem urges UN delegates to protect oceans 

      (The Philippine Star, August 21, 2019, on page 16)
      Spanish actor and environmental activist Javier Bardem said Monday " we are all villains" for playing" deaf and blind" and not caring about the world's oceans', which are under more pressure than at any time in history. ...

    • CBCP calls on faithful to minimize use of plastic 

      Macairan, Evelyn (The Philippine Star, July 17, 2019, on page 7)
      The CBCP recommended the faithful to start living simply and to refrain from using single-use plastic which greatly contributes to the pollution of the ocean and waterways. “Live simply, minimize consumption and actively ...

    • Cimatu: Cut down on plastics that clog oceans 

      Villanueva, Rhodina (The Philippine Star, March 12, 2019, on page 2-3)
      Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu has called upon Filipinos to cut down on the use of plastics that often end up in oceans and threaten marine life. Cimatu, who made the appeal during the department’s ...

    • Coastal cleanup 

      (The Philippine Star, September 16, 2019, on page 16)
      As the country marked the 47th anniversary of the declaration of martial law last Saturday, about 20,000 people gathered around Manila Bay for a different type of observance: International Coastal Cleanup or ICC Day. The ...

    • Commentary: Save our seas 

      Claparols, Antonio (The Philippine Star, February 7, 2019, on page B6)
      For once, leave politics out of this issue and make the facts speak for themselves. The coral colonies in the South China Sea are the richest and most diverse in the world. Any harm that goes to the coral colonies of the ...

    • Conor Dwyer and Kelsey Merritt dive deeper beyond swimming and modeling by helping save the oceans from being ruined by plastic 

      Manaquil, Millet M. (The Philippine Star, April 3, 2019, on page E2)
      Kelsey: In the past year I’ve been active in trying to use less plastic. I told Conor about it when we met. Conor: Now I’m with a brand that’s coming out hopefully next year, an alternative to plastic. A nutrition tech ...

    • A deep dive into saving the planet 

      Garceau, Scott (The Philippine Star, September 25, 2021, on page C1)
      Lots of teenagers talk about taking a “deep dive” into their passions. For 17-year-old Ganden Medved-Po, eldest son of Century Pacific Group’s Chris Po and philanthropist Nanette Medved-Po, that deep dive is quite literal: ...

    • DENR to work with Smithsonian for reef preservation 

      Villanueva, Rhodina (The Philippine Star, May 28, 2015, on page B-6)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) recently entered into an agreement with a group of museums and research centers based in the United States concerning the use of ARMS or Autonomous Reef Monitoring ...

    • DENR uses scientific tool to monitor biodiversity areas 

      Villanueva, Rhodina (The Philippine Star, May 24, 2015, on page 17)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources is now using a scientific tool that will effectively assess biodiversity in Batangas, Cavite, Palawan and Cebu, Director Mundita Lim of the DENR Biodiversity MAnagement ...

    • Discovering the ocean's deepest mysteries beyond the 'Titanic' 

      Garceau, Scott (The Philippine Star, June 26, 2021, on page C2)
      Talking with Bob Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered the sunken Titanic in the North Atlantic in 1985, he can sound a little dismissive of that particular blip on his career sonar — possibly because he’s been asked ...

    • DOT holds Philippines' first int'l dive expo 

      (The Philippine Star, September 20, 2019, on page B18)
      Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat and Senate committee on tourism chair Senator Nancy Binay headline the opening of the Philippine International Dive Expo (PHIDEX), the country’s first and only ...

    • EU delegation joins Manila Bay cleanup 

      Flores, Helen (The Philippine Star, September 23, 2018, on page 1-11)
      The European Union (EU) delegation to the Philippines, led by Ambassador Franz Jessen, joined yesterday the Manila Bay cleanup program along Roxas Boulevard in Manila. Jessen said the group’s participation in the cleanup ...

    • Exploring Philippine seas today, for the generations of tomorrow 

      Law, John (The Philippine Star, June 24, 2021, on page 9)
      In March 2021, a leading Philippine oceanographer and an American explorer, together, reached the deepest point of the Philippine Trench - a historic voyage to one of the least-explored places on Earth. By partnering on ...

    • Fil-Am aims to build large-scale ocean energy generator 

      Ronda, Rainier Allan (The Philippine Star, October 23, 2016, on page 5)
      A Filipino-American mechanical engineer wants to build his first large-scale ocean energy generator and test it in the Philippines. Ramuel Maramara, owner of engineering firm Brimes Industrial in Long Island in New York, ...

    • Forum pushes for cooperation for sustainable future of seas of East Asia 

      (The Philippine Star, May 24, 2018, on page 3-14)
      The 2018 Ministerial Declaration reaffirms commitments previously made in previous Ministerial Forums such as: (Putrajaya, Malaysia 2003) working towards sustainable development of the region’s coasts and oceans under the ...

    • Fukushima wash-up to hit US coast this year 

      Associated Press (AP) (The Philippine Star, February 6, 2014, on page A-21)
      Seaborne radiation from Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will wash up on the West Coast of the US this year, according to a report by Bloomberg. That's raising concerns among some Americans including the residents ...

    • Going beyod the hour: celebrating successful ecological initiatives in the Philippines 

      Fabonan, Epi III (The Philippine Star, March 25, 2017, on page 19)
      Climate change is drastically changing the condition of the world’s oceans. With rising temperatures brought about by the greenhouse effect, the world’s oceans are becoming more acidic, thus making them more inhospitable ...

    • Greenpeace pushes ocean preservation 

      Villanueva, Rhodina (The Philippine Star, June 9, 2013, on page 15)
      Environmentalists led by Greenpeace urged the Aquino government to enact and enforce stronger policies for the preservation of the country’s oceans. This developed as World Ocean Day was observed yesterday. The event is a ...