Category: Environment and Nature
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Climate change biggest threat to natural World Heritage sites
Climate change has become the biggest threat to UN-listed natural world heritage sites like glaciers and wetlands, and has pushed Australia's Great Barrier Reef into "critical" condition, conservationists said Wednesday.
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‘Plantdemic’ hits PH as demand for greenery grows
A gardening craze dubbed "plantdemic" has spread across the Philippines after coronavirus restrictions fuelled demand for greenery, sending plant prices soaring and sparking a rise in poaching from public parks and protected forests.
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Expedition confirms Panaon Island’s rich marine biodiversity
TACLOBAN CITY (PNA) – Environmental group Oceana has reported rich marine biodiversity in Panaon Island in Southern Leyte as they embark on a 22-day expedition in the bid to help protect and sustainably manage the island’s underwater resource.
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Galapagos sees record rise in penguins, flightless cormorants
The population of Galapagos penguins and flightless cormorants, two species endemic to the islands, has seen a record increase, study results released Friday showed.
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First ever nest of Asian giant hornets found in US
After months of meticulous tracking, authorities in the western US state of Washington on Friday said they had uncovered the first ever nest of the deadly Asian giant hornet in the country.
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Scientists throw lifeline to world’s rarest primate
Hainan gibbons -- the rarest primates on Earth -- were already teetering on the edge of extinction in 2014 when the most powerful storm to lash China's coast in half a century ravaged their island oasis.
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Scientists detect ‘mass death’ of sea life off Russia’s Kamchatka
Pollution off the Pacific shoreline of the remote Kamchatka peninsula has caused the mass death of marine creatures, Russian scientists said Tuesday.
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Fears of toxic fuel leak as sea creatures die in Russia ‘ecological disaster’
Water pollution in Russia’s Kamchatka region that caused sea creatures to wash up dead on beaches prompted fears on Monday that rocket fuel stored in the region’s military testing grounds could have leaked out.
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Botanists discover “possibly extinct” pitcher plant in Mt. Banahaw
Botanists at the UK-based Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has discovered a new species of a "possibly extinct" pitcher plant from Mt. Banahaw in Laguna and Quezon provinces.
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Northern Lights: What’s this all about and why photographers chase this
Photographer Edwin Martinez shares his magnificent photos online. We also answer some FAQs about this natural phenomenon.
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For some good eco news: Lute turtle rescued in Culasi, Hawksbill in Guimaras
For hundreds of years, marine turtles live in vast oceans and coexist with humans... but they must be protected at all costs.
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WARNING! The next environment crisis to hit us is your discarded face mask
Various eco groups sound the alarm—read here what you can do to help the planet.
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Arctic summer sea ice second lowest on record: US researchers
Arctic summer sea ice melted in 2020 to the second smallest size since records began 42 years ago, US scientists announced Monday, offering further stark evidence of the impact of global warming.
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New flowering plant Begonia beijnenii discovered in Palawan
Pink flowers and striped leaves caught the eyes of conservationists trekking up a river in Palawan’s Port Barton way back in 2012.
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‘Protect PH forest turtle,’ advocates urge
The illegal pet trade remains a key threat to the survival of endangered Philippine forest turtles (Siebenrockiella leytensis) as it had been in the past 15 years, according to a report by the international wildlife conservation group Traffic.
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Earth’s ice sheets tracking worst-case climate scenarios
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the UN's worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers said Monday, highlighting flaws in current climate change models.
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19 new whale sharks spotted in waters of Ticao-Burias Pass Protected Seascape
Nineteen new individual whale sharks, locally known as "butanding," have been spotted in the waters of Ticao-Burias Pass Protected Seascape (TBPPS) off the coast of Bicol since the start of 2020, according to conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature-Philippines (WWF-Philippines).
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Criminal recycling scams ‘profit from plastic waste surge’
Criminal networks are profiting from an "overwhelming" surge in plastic waste being shipped from rich countries to Asia and stoking pollution by burning and dumping waste that was supposed to be recycled, a report by Interpol said Thursday.