SHARKS: GOING, GOING, GONE?
Described as a “highly feared apex predator of the sea,” sharks have been on this planet for some 400 million years. They possess replaceable razor-sharp...
ASSESSING THE STATUS OF ENDANGERED CORAL REEFS
Archipelago, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is “a sea or stretch of water having many islands.” The word could have been invented...
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 the...
SCIENCE: ASSESSING THE STATUS OF ENDANGERED CORAL REEFS
Archipelago, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is “a sea or stretch of water having many islands.” The word could have been invented...
ENVIRONMENT: UNDERSTANDING THE RED TIDE MENACE
Recently, Business Mirror carried a news report stating that the shellfish harvested from Hinatuan Bay in Surigao del Sur are already safe for eating. The lifting...
ENVIRONMENT: Water crisis in the offing
“The world has got a very big water problem. It will be the progenitor of more wars than oil.” – Sir Crispin Tickell, one of the organizers...
ENVIRONMENT: THIS TOXIC CHEMICAL CALLED DIOXIN
“I renew my call to national and local authorities to enforce the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act that intends to mainstream effective waste management...
Sharks swimming into extinction?
Last August 7, a dead 14-feet whale shark washed ashore at Sitio Cabugan, Barangay Busaon in Tagum City, Davao del Norte, was found.
“It died of toxic...
ENVIRONMENT: THE THREATS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
A few days before President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his third State of the Nation Address (SONA), Environment Secretary Roy A. Cimatu said the current...
Bigger Kadayawan tribal village to be built
The Kadayawan tribal village located inside Magsaysay Park has been attracting local and foreign visitors curious of the way of life of Davao City’s...