Changing climates: the heat is (still) on
The world is getting warmer and natural hazards are becoming more intense, likely bringing higher economic losses in the future. Today, four major weather perils result in expected economic losses of USD
Philippines
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THE PHILIPPINES
Torrential rains killed at least 15 people and displaced more than 100,000 families in the low-lying areas in four provinces in the southern Mindanao island of the Philippines. According to the
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THE PHILIPPINES
The department of health imposed a ban on gathering and sale of shellfish in Bulacan after it found a stretch of the Manila Bay along the province to be infested with red tide organisms. Seawater
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Phillipines
The giant stag horn fern, one of the endangered plants in the Philip pines can now be saved from extinction. Professors at the Central Mindanao Univer sity ( cmu ) in Musuan, Bukid non, have
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Philippines
President Fidel Ramos has promised support to farmers during a severe drought in Philip-pines due to the El Ni
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Change of hearth
Rural Filipinos have cut their dependence on firewood by using cost effective rice hull stoves
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PHILIPPINES
Even as dolphin parks are going out of vogue in the West, they are becoming a craze in South-east Asian countries, much to the dismay of conservationists. These countries are keen on boosting
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The Philippines
The much vaunted upgradation of the porous water supply system of the Manila metropolitan water and sewerage systems (mwss), suffered a setback due to a lawsuit that pointed out "serious
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Encounter of the third kind
A third dam in their vicinity threatens the livelihoods of the Ibaloi tribals of northern Philippines
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Green killer
Environmental contamination and high production cost could now be eliminated with the discovery of a botanical pesticide using Jatropha curcas (tubang-bakod), say scientists from the Central
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Handy harvester
Developed as an alternative to manual harvesting in small plots, the stripper-gatherer (sg) is a boon to farmers, particularly in Asia. Designed at the International Rice Research Institute in