Environment

It all started in 1933 when chemists in Norwich, England accidentally produced polyethylene. By 1960, a Swedish company figured out how to make bags...

“I was a shabu (crack or poor man’s cocaine) dealer for six years,” admitted Bagut, who’s from Agusan del Sur. “I was also in prison and even there, shabu dealing continued. I operated here in the Agusan marsh area. But I realized that it was almost like killing people and their families as well, even with all the money I earned.

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“From afar, aliens might see the obvious: the ocean is Earth’s life-support system,” observed Sylvia A. Earle, former chief scientist of the US National...

Just like the very popular American television sitcom, Three’s a Company, disaster is also like that. In the Philippines, disaster comes together in three forms: when there's a typhoon, expect too much rain and inundating floods.

The Philippines is one of the 18 mega-diverse countries in the world as it contains two-thirds of the earth’s biodiversity and between 70% and...

Unless something is done soon to protect plants and livestock and their wild relatives from extinction, the world will face hunger in the coming...

Pangolins, which are mistaken sometimes as reptiles but are actually scaly-skinned mammals, are in danger of going extinct if they are not protected now,...

During the Zoom meeting of the newly-formed National Panel of Technical Experts (NPTE) of the Climate Change Commission and convened by the Department of...

By now, you probably heard of ecotourism. The Ecotourism Society defines ecotourism as “purposeful travel to natural areas to understand the culture and natural...