AGRICULTURE:FINDING SOLUTION TO DECLINING FISH CATCH
“An island nation, the Philippines necessarily depends, to a
large extent, on its fishery resources for its food. Fish, which
used to be among the cheapest sources...
ENVIRONMENT: EATING LESS MEAT IN THE TIME OF CLIMATE CHANGE
“Preventing catastrophic warming is dependent on tackling meat and dairy consumption, but the world is doing very little. A lot is being done on deforestation...
SCIENCE: SAVING ENDANGERED FISHERY RESOURCES FROM EXTINCTION (Fourth of Five Parts)
Sharks, described as a “highly feared apex
predator of the sea,” have been on this planet for some 400 million years,
according to marine biologists. They possess...
SCIENCE: SAVING BELEAGUERED MARINE RESOURCES FROM EXTINCTION (Third of Five Parts)
It is now a common knowledge: Chinese restaurant is not complete without a bubbling tankful of grouper. Asia’s most in-demand reef fish, grouper fetches...
SCIENCE: SAVING BELEAGUERED MARINE RESOURCES FROM EXTINCTION (Second of Five Parts)
Tunas are migratory
oceanic fishes, which are capable of attaining large sizes. Unlike most
fish, which have white flesh, tuna flesh is pink to dark red,...
SCIENCE: SAVING BELEAGUERED MARINE RESOURCES FROM EXTINCTION (First of Five Parts)
The Philippines has about 7,107 islands, but no one for sure know how long the country’s coastline is. The United States measured it as...
Environment: Biodegradable Substitute to Synthetic Plastics Developed
Plastic is now one of the country’s top pollutants of canals, rivers, and other waterways. Unfortunately, most of these buoyant materials end up in...
BIGGER PICTURE: UNDERSTANDING WHAT LOVE REALLY IS!
What really love is? Do people really know what it
is?
Love is perhaps the most intimate and deepest emotion a person
experiences and yet it continues to...
ENVIRONMENT: SAVING ECOLOGICALLY-FRAGILE CORAL REEFS(Last of Three Parts)
CORAL reefs are the marine equivalent of rainforests and considered one of the planet's essential life-support systems. These “biological wonders,” as environmental author Don...
ENVIRONMENT: SAVING ECOLOGICALLY-FRAGILE CORAL REEFS (Second of Three Parts)
In July last year, Romina Lim posted in her Facebook account
some photos of Tubipora and Heliopora corals
that were “exported” from the Philippines in a gift shop in Long...