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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PHILIPPINES
A water crisis could lie ahead for Asian nations, says a report by the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute. The shortage of water could have twin effects: a severe shortfall in
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THE PHILIPPINES
Future shock could be near at hand for the inhabitants of the Asia and Pacific region. At a seminar on'Mega-cities management in Asia and the Pacific' held on October 24 at Manila, experts
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THE PHILIPPINES
Asian farmers are learning a new lesson: killing insects that eat up the leaves in their paddy fields is a futile opearation, because the pests make little difference to the rice yield. "You can
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Fish ticuffs
A grassroots level fight is on in the Philippines against big trawlers fishing in other people's waters, and related problems
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PHILIPPINES
President Fidel Ramos of Philippines is all set to solve the country's water problems once and for all. A radical shake-up of the Philippines' state-owned water facilities is on the wings. This will
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Soul cure
Growing up in Minadanao, nature's last frontier in the Philippines, Joey Ayala learnt to mix words and music with the sounds of nature. Ayala, 38, is the most famous of the new breed of Filipino
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Pesticides of death
SINCE Rachel Carson's Silent Spring , written in 1962, tried to wake the world to the damage pesticides can do both to human health and the environment, the limitations of chemical pesticides have
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Community enterprise unlimited
Environmental management invariably raises complex and difficult issues. Economists usually tend to differ with environmentalists. While economists tend to look at the short-term, environmentalists
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Copying the West
After reports of the success of cloud seeding in the US, Australia and the Philippines, Union agriculture minister Balram Jakhar has become a strong votary of the practice. "There is no reason why
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Studying conversion
IN A SIGNIFICANT reversal of trends, the Philippines is studying the conversion of its stalled 620 mw nuclear power plant in Bataan province into a non-nuclear one. President Fidel Ramos