Stopping the use of plastic, strictly implementing the garbage segregation law and fortifying discipline—there are many ways to solve the perennial flooding problem in Metro Manila.–Tin Vergara, Zero waste campaigner of EcoWaste Coalition
Lawmen closed at least 200 tunnels dug up for illegal mining in the mountains of gold-rich Barangay (village) Runruno in Nueva Vizcaya, according to the National Bureau of Investigation.
Singapore’s smog crisis from Indonesian forest fires worsened Wednesday as air pollution levels reached a 16-year high, triggering a run on medical masks and angry complaints from foreign tourists and locals.
Senator Loren Legarda said she will call for an “environmental audit” by three oversight committees when the next Congress convenes in July as she agreed with observations that the Philippines has now turned into a “water world.”
Singapore urged Indonesia to take “urgent measures” on Monday as severe air pollution from a rash of forest fires on Sumatra island choked the densely populated city-state.
China’s newly announced measures to combat pollution by slashing emissions from major polluting industries and holding local officials responsible could take 18 years to bring air quality within acceptable standards, analysts said Monday.
Former US Peace Corps volunteer Julia Crowley loves to ride her bicycle under the canopy of trees in Ilocos Norte that has been her home for two and a half years.
China has pledged to hold local government leaders responsible for improving air quality, officials said, after heavy smog across China earlier this year stoked social discontent.
The more we eat, the more waste we create that could pollute our environment.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday issued a “last warning” for thousands of protesters to evacuate an Istanbul park at the center of mass anti-government demos, ratcheting up tensions in two weeks of deadly unrest.
Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez has given illegal fish pen operators here until Aug. 31 to dismantle their structures from the city’s rivers or the city government will demolish them.
The easiest—and maybe the cheapest—way of displaying a giant Philippine map may be to cut it out from a Styrofoam board, mount it on plywood, and paint it.
Without the San Roque Dam here, sediments that were let loose by a breached tailings pond of Philex Mining Corp. (Philex) in Itogon, Benguet, could have gone downstream of the Agno River and wreaked havoc on Pangasinan farms.
