Conserving the ocean cannot be overstated when the 2nd UN Ocean Conference announced a global ocean emergency. It revealed three major challenges confronting our only home: biodiversity loss, climate change, and marine pollution, sounding the alarm for their potential irreversible damage to the...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo on Thursday, Sept. 28, called for the “responsible use of our oceans” and the implementation of sustainable practices to fight avoid maritime pollution and environmental degradation. A pod of dolphins in the seas off Cateel town in Davao Oriental. (Photo...
“The ocean is the foundation of life. It supplies the air we breathe and food we eat. It regulates our climate and weather.” The strong reminder on the major role the oceans have on everyday life was made by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres when he opened the UN World Oceans...
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Enrique Manalo has called on the public to recognize the urgency to protect the oceans and reaffirm the commitment to preserve it as he believed that the world could secure a future where the bounties of the oceans are accessible to all. In his message...
EDITORS DESK Exactly a month ago, COP27 or the 2022 United Nations Climate Conference (aka 27th Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), concluded without a “consensus” — supporters say that there were big strides especially on the aspect of “loss-and-damage...
Editorial This year’s major climate summit may have concluded when world leaders and environment advocates departed Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt with a “call for action.” But that 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of Parties (more commonly referred to as COP27) is just...
Niki Jakarta-born, LA-based singer-songwriter, and producer NIKI unveiled her new single and accompanying video for “ Oceans & Engines .” The track will appear on NIKI’s forthcoming sophomore album Nicole, which will be out on Aug. 12. Stream/download the track HERE . Watch...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has voiced out that regional maritime disputes, including artificial-island building and drilling activities at sea, are among the threats the world's oceans are facing. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (Screengrab from DFA YouTube Channel)...
As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippines’ ocean economy declined by 32.6 percent, recording a gross value added (GVA) of P617.20 billion in 2020 from P916.31 billion in 2019, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. Accounting for 3.4 percent of the...
After the closure of all 335 open dumpsites nationwide, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is now shifting its focus to cleaning the country's oceans. (Photo courtesy of the DENR) Undersecretary for Solid Waste Management and Local Government Units Concerns Benny D....
US Embassy in the Philippines Chargé d’Affaires John Law In March 2021, a leading Philippine oceanographer and an American explorer, together, reached the deepest point of the Philippine trench – a historic voyage to one of the least-explored places on Earth. By partnering on marine issues,...
Senator Cynthia Villar on Sunday, June 6, reiterated her call for the government to come up with a solid waste management strategy to address the overwhelming volume of plastic wastes, which remains a major environmental problem for the Philippines. “A 2015 University of Georgia study revealed...
