By Henrylito D. Tacio Almost everyone on the planet now knows what climate change is. It refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle. But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of...
Climate change not only affects the environment but it also has a negative impact on other sectors like human health, the Department of Health (DOH) said. Weather events such as El Nino, storms, floodings, among others may increase in frequency because of climate change, said DOH Undersecretary and...
Senator Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla on Wednesday, March 29, appealed to the Senate leadership for a "collaborative effort" with the House of Representatives in deciding on the preferred mode of amending economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution. Padilla, chairman of the Senate constitutional...
Welding the government’s influence on advancing energy efficiency and conservation (EE&C) as a way of life for all Filipinos, Energy Secretary Raphael P. M. Lotilla has intensified this pitch as a basic solution to the country’s power supply predicaments not just for ‘Earth Hour’ celebration...
PARIS, France -- Leading glaciologist Claude Lorius, whose Antarctica discoveries in the 1980s helped prove humanity's role in global warming, has died at 91. Lorius died on Tuesday morning in the French region of Burgundy, according to Jerome Chappellaz, a palaeoclimatologist and former colleague...
Early this week, scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) released the synthesis report of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). This contains the consolidated and summarized findings of previous reports that describe the recent state of the world in terms of...
A Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted in December 2022 bared that 93 percent of Filipinos have personally experienced the effects of climate change in the past three years. Of this, 17 percent said they have experienced severe impact of climate change in the past three years, 52...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said that his order to review the previous administration's Executive Order (EO) No. 138 was not an alternative to the proposed Charter change still pending in Congress, but was an effort to ensure that the devolution of national government functions would...
ONE FOR THE ROAD Some might say that Lexus has arrived a little late to the EV party, especially considering Toyota’s global dominance and unrivaled experience with hybrid technology. But for Lexus, they have an unspoken philosophy about these things — better late than mediocre. See at Lexus...
Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said he has only one vote and he could be outvoted by a majority of senators. "So why the focus on me?" Zubiri told Senate reporters as the issue of Charter Change between the Senate and the House of Representatives is heating up. "I want to put that on record....
The Philippines has secured approval for a [grant](https://www.greenclimate.fund/project/fp201)Â of US$26.3 million from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to increase the resilience of rural agriculture in climate-vulnerable areas and to transform the country's agriculture sector towards climate...
The Climate Change Commission (CCC) called for the urgent delivery of global commitment to climate action, particularly the funding for climate-related loss and damage, citing the role of governments to act on its mandates. CCC Vice Chair and Executive Director Robert Borje said this during the 18th...
