Invoking helplessness in cleaning up highly polluted water tributaries, Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has earned the ire of mostly female lawmakers from the House of Representatives, as well as other environmental ...

A group of militant fishermen has joined the chorus of protests against the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN), warning of the new law’s negative impact on earnings stemming from spikes in fuel prices. In a ...

President Duterte assured Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc that the Philippines is not abandoning the favorable ruling of the international arbitration tribunal on the West Philippine Sea dispute with China. ...

Criminal charges have been filed against six traders and their drivers for trying to sell in this city bangus affected by fish kill in Anda and Bolinao towns. Isagani Rarang and his wife Nancy, Richie Cano and Perfecto ...

A government task force led by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has started dismantling illegal fish pens in Laguna de Bay. The task force which is also composed of representatives of the Laguna ...

Security forces would grab power and take over the government if ordered to go to war with China over the South China Sea dispute, President Duterte said yesterday. Duterte said the military and police would defy him if ...

The carcass of a whale shark, locally known as “butanding,” washed ashore near the Navotas Fish Port Complex before dawn yesterday. The whale shark was at least 15 feet long and weighed more than 3,000 kilos, according to ...

A fisherman from San Remigio, Cebu, who almost lost his life fighting illegal fishers in Tañon Strait, is one of the five winners of the 2018 Ocean Awards, conducted by two international groups both based in the United ...

China rebuffed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s call for Beijing to rethink its conduct in the South China Sea on Thursday, saying China had the right to react to foreign ships or aircraft that get close to its ...

Declaring the lagoon at Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal a marine sanctuary might again deprive Filipino fishermen of their right to livelihood and access to fishing zones. In a statement, the Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang ...