DataOne Asia goes green with Ecoswitch Award
The recent boom of technology facilities worldwide has created a wide array of ecological problems from energy overconsumption to increased carbon emissions. Data centers,...
The global garbage crisis: No time to waste
With approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of municipal waste generated each year, and volumes expected to increase to 2.2 billion tonnes by 2025 according to...
Bananas eyed to replace potatoes in warming world
Climate change could lead to crops from the banana family becoming a critical food source for millions of people, a new report says.Researchers from...
Legarda bats for inclusion of people’s survival fund in country’s 2013 budget
Senator Loren Legarda yesterday stressed that it is important and urgent to include the one billion-peso People’s Survival Fund (PSF) in the 2013 National...
Donsol, the town whale sharks built
What a big difference conservation makes. Barely 15 years ago, the coastal town of Donsol in Sorsogon was a 5th class rural municipality -...
DA to launch pilot biological control program vs rat infestation
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will implement a pilot biological control program to address the increasing rodent infestation in the country.Dante Delima, DA assistant...
G20 spotlights risks of disasters
Finance and central bank chiefs from G20 member countries are expected to wrap up their two days of meetings in Mexico City with no...
PHL’s first bike-sharing system debuts this week
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set to spearhead the inauguration on Tuesday of the Philippines’ first bike-sharing system.Such system aims to help address...
In Asia-Pacific Big investments needed for ‘dwindling’ natural capital
Booming economic development and per-capita consumption across the Asia-Pacific region is burning up more natural resources than are available, placing enormous pressure on the...
Legarda says Climate change will define future of greatest leaders
Senator Loren Legarda, United Nations Regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia-Pacific, yesterday renewed her call for world leaders...