February 10, 2012
Climate Change Commission Vice-chairperson Mary Ann Lucille L. Sering welcomes the assistance offered by the German government to help implement the country’s climate change mitigation and adaptation measures as embodied in the National Framework Strategy on Climate Change (NFSCC), and the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP).
February 8, 2012
This city is stepping up the fight against global warming, by adopting a new scheme, Social Transformation Through Environmental Protection (STEP), to drum up support for the campaign from officials and residents.
February 6, 2012
Impressed by the reported flocking of foreign birds here, representatives of the Wild Bird Club of the Philippines (WBCP) and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), along with city employees and students, counted 14,899 migratory birds of different species in Balanga City during the one-day bird census on Sunday along the coastal barangays here.
February 1, 2012
An Oklahoma lawmaker has proposed legislation to ban any use of fetuses in food in one of the more bizarre twists in the emotive US battle over abortion.
February 1, 2012
A visit to a volcanic region in the Ethiopian province of Afar, close to the Eritrean border, was meant to be an adventure to one of the planet's most remote areas. It ended in tragedy as five European tourists were killed in a gun attack.
February 1, 2012
America's historic Chinatowns, home for a century to immigrants seeking social support and refuge from racism, are fading as rising living costs, jobs elsewhere and a desire for wider spaces lure Asian-Americans more than ever to the suburbs.
February 1, 2012
The United States is taking over the leadership of the international body charged with monitoring and preventing the sale of blood diamonds, just a month after a major human rights watchdog quit, accusing the group of refusing to address links between gems, violence and tyranny.
February 1, 2012
Three years after swine flu closed Mexico City and caused an international scare, the Mexican government and local media are at odds over the severity of this season's flu virus. Newspapers are warning of an alarming increase in cases while the government insists there is no cause for alarm.
January 31, 2012
Climate Change Commission joins different government and non-government organization in the World Wildlife Fund’s Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), and Green Economy (GE) High-level Preparatory Workshop conducted last January 30 and 31 in Astoria Plaza, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.
January 30, 2012
In a bid to make creeks and rivers more productive, some 2.7 million tilapia fingerlings were dispersed to communal bodies of water in the municipalities of Malasiqui, Pozorrubio and Agno last year.
January 25, 2012
Algae-based fuel could power motor vehicles in the future, according to scientists at Munich Technical University (TUM) in Germany.
January 25, 2012
The leap second may live on for at least another three years.
January 25, 2012
At 10:25 a.m., a dark brown eye was removed from a man whose lids had closed for the last time. Five hours later, the orb was staring up at the ceiling from a stainless steel tray in an operating room with two blind patients - both waiting to give it a second life.
January 25, 2012
Tourists and visitors continue to come in droves in this coastal and progressive city in Central Luzon to watch the various species of migratory birds that flock here.
January 25, 2012
With climate change turning Philippine weather more powerful and disastrous, the government has taken a more aggressive stance to fight this modern-day threat to humanity.
January 23, 2012
The Las Piñas City government deployed “anti-plastic pulis” to enforce the environmental protection ordinance, banning the use of plastic bags for carry foods and purchased items as it intensified the zero-waste clean-up drive.
January 18, 2012
The Mars probe launched by the Russia space agency in early November is to come crashing down to earth over the next few days, bringing with it some highly toxic fuel and a tiny amount of radioactive cobalt.
January 18, 2012
A snowshoer who was lost in a blizzard for two days on Washington state's Mount Rainier said he stayed alive by digging out a snow tunnel and burning his paper money for warmth.
January 18, 2012
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has completed the delineation of a total of 5,590.18 kilometers of forest boundaries in the five provinces comprising the Zamboanga Peninsula (Region 9).
