WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming is causing rivers to slowly lose oxygen, threatening fish and other lives in the waterways, a new study shows. Researchers in China used satellites and artificial intelligence to track and analyze oxygen levels in more than 21,000 rivers across the globe since...
Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU) called for stronger regional cooperation and faster implementation of sustainability initiatives amid ongoing energy and economic pressures across Southeast Asia. The call was made during the ASEAN-EU...
Filipinos are the most alarmed in Asia about climate change, with more than four-fifths of respondents viewing it as a “very serious problem,” the highest share among the economies surveyed, according to the Manila-based multilateral lender Asian Development Bank (ADB). In an economics working...
Senator Loren Legarda is urging the Philippine government to adopt anticipatory legislation to better protect communities before disasters strike. Legarda said this on Thursday, April 30, as she called for a decisive shift from the cycle of “trauma and repair” toward proactive climate...
The Philippines faces mounting economic and financial risks from climate change, with projected losses reaching as much as 13 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2040 unless the country urgently scales up climate financing and aligns adaptation and mitigation efforts, according to state-run...
Amid worsening floods, droughts, stronger typhoons, and rising sea levels, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Juan Miguel Cuna on Monday, April 27, said that climate action must translate into real, on-the-ground benefits for communities. The statement was made as the...
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) has done daily monitoring of satellite data since the Navotas landfill fire reportedly broke out on April 10, 2026. As of April 23, the Bureau of Fire Protection has reported “smoldering conditions” onsite and satellite data show that air quality in Metro...
Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday, April 22, warned that corruption in climate infrastructure projects in the Philippines poses a “direct threat to national security,” as the country faces increasingly destructive storms. In her Earth Day 2026 message, Duterte cited the devastation...
The Quezon City government led the country’s first Urban Heat and Drought Summit to advance coordinated, science-based action against extreme temperatures in urban areas. The initiative was driven by heat indices reaching up to 46°C in the city in 2024 and 2025, underscoring growing risks to...
Iran is approximately 7,000 kilometers away from the Philippines. But an ongoing war in that part of the world rattles ours almost immediately. This conflict in West Asia (or the Middle East to the Western world) has disrupted crude oil shipments to the Philippines, a country that imports about 98...
The Department of Finance (DOF)-led People’s Survival Fund (PSF) has expanded its commitment to local climate action, approving a combined ₱127.3 million in grants for four major adaptation projects across the Philippines. These initiatives, approved during the recent PSF board meeting,...
To bolster the country’s climate resilience, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has proposed a major regulatory shift, slashing the credit risk weight for sustainable housing loans. Under the new draft circular, the risk weight for these eco-friendly financing arrangements will drop to 20...
