PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid A worrisome finding during a recent Pulse Asia survey is that “environmental destruction” ranks only no. 12 among our “most urgent national concerns,” and that it is not even on the list of the seven personal concerns. Yet, the most urgent personal...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) vowed Thursday, Nov. 4, to strengthen efforts to reduce pollution in Manila Bay. Hundreds of people plunge into the cool water of Manila Bay at the breakwater in Macapagal Boulevard in Pasay City amidst the pandemic. (Photo by Ali Vicoy / MANILA...
House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez is pushing passage of a bill seeking to create an independent government agency that would be tasked to focus on programs protecting the environment. Rodriguez, in filing House Bill No. 3794, or “An Act Creating the National Environmental Protection Agency of...
Science and the Filipino people PROUD PINAY Top: Dr. Lawagon receives her award from Dr. Michael Meister, parliamentary state secretary to the German Federal Minister of Education and Research. Bottom: .Lillibeth Pono, Consul Mary Luck Hicarte, and Vice-Consul Mina Ganzon of the Philippine Embassy...
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) said the new passers of the Environmental Planners Licensure Examination will have their online oathtaking on August 19. PRC/MB The Commission said the online oathtaking at 10 a.m. will be spearheaded by PRC San Fernando, Pampanga through Microsoft...
Pro-environment activist group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) said Tuesday, July 27 that there were 12 major omissions in President Duterte's sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA) as far as environmental issues were concerned. A recent cleanup...
Basic Environmental Systems & Technologies, Inc. (BEST, Inc.), a wholly-owned subsidiary of publicly-listed IPM Holdings, Inc. (IPM), has opened the first of several engineered sanitary landfills in the country using the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. Located in Passi City, Iloilo, the...
This year's National Environmental Law Enforcement (NELE) Summit will place a focus on aging environment and natural resources (ENR) laws that need to be revisited, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy A. Cimatu said Tuesday, July 13. DENR Secretary Roy A. Cimatu...
An environmental activist group wants to find out if the controversial issuance of an Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) to the "Aerocity" reclamation project had any bearing on the oil spill that took place in Manila Bay Thursday morning, July 8. (Photo by Tom Barrett/ Unsplash) “This...
Despite the pandemic, an art collective and volunteer artists collaborated to bring environmental awareness to life with art murals in selected coastal communities of Panay and Guimaras Islands. The ProCoast Project of Artivisim Iloilo and partners were able to bring the message of conserving and...
A foreign-funded project of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has helped a group of indigenous peoples (IPs) in Bukidnon transform 80 hectares land into a coffee farm. A statement showed that an 80-hectare agroforestry area in Barangay Dalwangan, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has taken a major step toward strengthening environmental law enforcement in the country. DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu answers questions from reporters during the agency’s anniversary celebration last June 10, 2021 (Screengrab from Zoom...
