ENVIRONMENT: Dying rivers should be revived — or else!
If Davao River has to continue rendering services to the people of Davao City, then the people should work together to restore it back...
ENVIRONMENT: Saving “White Gold of the Sea”
The Island Garden City of Samal is known for its fine white-sand beaches. But there’s one place that visitors should not miss to go...
ENVIRONMENT: Bats should not be feared, instead they must be protected
Bats are among the most feared creatures on this planet. They are carriers of rabies, one of the deadliest diseases known to man. In...
ENVIRONMENT | Marine Turtles: Worth more alive than dead
Endangered marine turtles are worth more when they are alive than dead. Such was the finding of a study conducted by the Department of...
ENVIRONMENT: When the wells run dry
English author Thomas Fuller once wrote: “We only learn the value of a glass of water when the wells run dry.”
Fuller may have written...
ENVIRONMENT: Intellectual property rights for bamboo products
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are the rights acquired by an owner of an intellectual property. Intellectual property is a category of property that includes...
ENVIRONMENT: Science department puts water as major priority program
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is putting water resource management as one of major priorities in their research and development (R&D) programs...
ENVIRONMENT: Single-use plastics soon to be banned
House Bill 9147 seeks to regulate the production, importation, sale, distribution, provision, use, recovery, collection, recycling, and disposal of single-use plastic (SUP) products.
Last July...
ENVIRONMENT: Where have all the sharks gone
Sharks, rays and chimaeras are referred collectively as sharks. They are perceived to be scary and ferocious monsters of the sea. This has been...
ENVIRONMENT: Saving the country’s vanishing watersheds
What has been lost can never be restored but what remains can still be saved, managed and enhanced. Such is the case of watershed, defined...