For many years now, the scientific community has painted a grim scenario of what the future holds if the world fails to act with the urgency and scale needed to address the climate crisis. To ensure a livable future, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that global emissions...
SAN PEDRO, United States -- Floating in the port of Los Angeles, a strange-looking barge covered with pipes and tanks contains a concept that scientists hope to make waves: a new way to use the ocean as a vast carbon dioxide sponge to tackle global warming. Scientists from University of California...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Dry-spells known as flash droughts, with a surprisingly rapid onset and often devastating impact, are becoming more frequent as human activity warms the planet, according to a study published Thursday. Though droughts are generally thought of as long-term phenomena, some...
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (Rep. Salceda's office) Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda has presented figures that should motivate anti-climate change crusaders to call for the production of cheaper modern jeepneys. In a statement Thursday afternoon, April 13, the economist-lawmaker...
A Pulse Asia survey showing the unpopularity of moves to amend the 1987 Constitution should serve as a warning to lawmakers bent on pursuing Charter change, Bayan Muna Chairman Neri Colmenares said. “The recent Pulse Asia survey showed that an overwhelming 76 percent of the people do not want...
Forty-one percent of Filipinos are in favor of the proposals to amend the 1987 Philippine Constitution now, results of the latest survey of Pulse Asia revealed on Tuesday, April 4. Pulse Asia disclosed this in the March 2023 Ulat ng Bayan national survey conducted from March 15 to 19 among 1,200...
In climate negotiations and beyond, “loss and damage” generally refers to the impacts of the climate crisis that transpire despite, or in the absence, of either (1) climate change adaptation, mitigation, and disaster risk reduction and management solutions, or (2) the resources of communities...
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...
