GCash, the digital financial services firm of Globe Telecom, Inc., will fund a massive government-led re-forestation of Ipo Watershed, which is one of Metro Manila’s sources of freshwater. A statement showed that through donations generated from GCash, the Department of Environment and Natural...
Hollywood and local stars have joined the campaign to protect peatlands which are crucial to fight climate change. "Peatlands are crucial to fight climate change. They are large, often forested swamps that can be found all over the world. They matter for the planet because they actually store twice...
The Department of Finance (DOF) is pursuing steps to untangle the legal issues tying down idle mining assets held by the government in an effort to speed up their privatization and revive their operations. ...
The Department of Finance (DOF) wants to revive the mining industry to create jobs in rural as well as generate revenues for the government’s efforts in rebuilding the economy hit by the pandemic. At the virtual Philippine Business Conference and Expo, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III...
With the pandemic on everyone’s mind, it is a “refreshing” change of pace to receive some good news on the environment front. Early this month, two endangered turtles were rescued in separate occasions, one in Culasi in Antique, and another in Nueva Valencia, Guimaras. According to reports...
It is dubbed as the “plastic water bottle” of the pandemic. These face masks, which is a “must” these days, are set to become the looming environment crisis that we would face. Though light as a feather (at least four grams each), millions of face masks are discarded each day, some even...
Still receiving backlash for its decision to fill world-known Manila Bay with tons of white sand made from dolomite rock, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is still determined to participate in this year’s International Coastal Cleanup (ICC), a global campaign to protect...
All there is to know about the recent and past cases of rare animals on the loose in the metro Early August was like a round of a fictional board game—action-packed with a touch of the absurd. The government has reimposed the Modified Enhanced Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Community...
Straws, cups, utensils, and even plates – these are just some of the home essentials we could not share to another individual for sanitation and health reasons. With the pandemic, these utensils need to come in handy and reusable to one person, especially at work. Banana leaf sheaths, locally...
Explaining what the Boracay Island Development Authority is all about President Rodrigo Roa Duterte , in his State of the Nation Address last Monday, touched on the environment by highlighting the success of the rehabilitation of Boracay. The President urged Congress to enact a law creating BIDA or...
BUTUAN CITY – Officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) urged Caraganons to help protect the region’s rich bounty of natural resources by planting more trees “without let up” in support to the government’s Enhanced National Greening Program (E-NGP). As the...
