Environment

Among the natural attractions of the Philippines are its dive sites. Located in the so-called Coral Triangle, our country can lay legitimate claim to being at the “center of the center of marine biodiversity.”

KEEPING YOUR car properly tuned, your tire pressures checked, and turning down the air-conditioning are some of the ways to make your driving more efficient and cut your fuel consumption, according to the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines, Inc. (CAMPI).

A WEEK before the celebration of the Hospital Week, pro environment-health group Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia (HCWH-SEA) raises alarm on the Department of Health’s (DOH) proposal to revive the use of incinerators calling it “revival of the unfittest.” Under the Health department’s draft Health Executive Agenda for Legislation, there is a proposal to amend…

DESPITE all the talk about going green and the increasing “environmental advocacies” of companies, only 17 products in the country have earned the Philippine version of eco-labeling called the Green Choice seal.

IT IS not unusual to see, read or hear about environmental problems these days. Pollution has become so common that we appear resigned to the fact that this is part of modernization.

MANILA, Philippines – Environment Secretary Ramon Jesus Paje is a creature of habit. For 20 years, he showed up for work at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in the morning and went home after work.

At least 5,000 Filipinos are dying every year because of pulmonary diseases caused by poor air quality in the country, a clean air advocate organization said on Tuesday. During a news forum held at Annabel’s Restaurant on Tomas Morato Street in Quezon City, lawyer Glynda Bathan of the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities said…

THE WORLD Bank Group’s International Finance Corp. (IFC) is drafting stronger standards for environmental and social protection that projects needing its help will have to observe, Greg Radford, IFC environmental and social development director, told reporters in a briefing yesterday.

THE increasing number of poor people trooping to and staying in the cities is causing environmental risks, a United Nations (UN) official said Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – Environmentalists called yesterday on the Department of Education (DepEd) to require the teaching of “Zero Waste” to students.

MANILA, Philippines – The El Niño phenomenon that dried up farmlands in most parts of Luzon has finally ended, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) announced yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Over 200 environment officials and experts from Asia and Europe have cited the reforestation program of the Philippines, tagging it as one of the “low carbon pioneers” in the world in efforts to confront the challenges of climate change.

The Climate Change Commission (CCC) is battling for a macro-view management of river basins in the country, as it emphasized the need to strengthen preservation of watersheds, forest mangroves and river systems to combat climate change.

The contribution to landfills from electronics will actually escalate until about 2015, but good news will follow, according to a report released Wednesday by Pike Research.

The Supreme Court has directed the government to answer a landmark petition filed by Ramon Magsaysay awardee Antonio Oposa Jr. and other environmentalists in a test-case for the new writ of kalikasan (environment).

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is one of six major energy-using countries in East Asia that could stabilize their greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 without compromising growth, according to a new World Bank report.

CEBU, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has finally released Tuesday the rules of procedure on environmental cases which shall form bases for the prosecution of cases involving the environment protection and preservation. Environmental lawyer Gloria Estenzo-Ramos said that the rules of procedure on environmental cases will help usher in an era of stewardship and…

MANILA, Philippines – The Green for Life: One Million Trees and Beyond (OMTB), a project initiated by Br. Armin Luistro, FSC and the Lasallian Institute for the Environment (LIFE), hit 610,694 seedlings planted as of end of February, 2010. The project aims to plant one million trees around the Philippines by June 2011, in time…

THE Supreme Court on Wednesday issued landmark rules to govern how courts must handle cases involving the environment.

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MANILA, Philippines – Hospitals and other health care services greatly endanger the country’s diminishing water supply because of improper disposal of infectious waste and toxic chemicals in canals and other bodies of water.

The country’s forest area had expanded by 33 percent in the past nine years, the top official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said on Friday.

Manila Water Company Inc. on Wednesday said it is being fined for alleged failure to meet regulations on wastewater management.

SMOKE belching vehicles on the highways and byways of Metro Manila may soon be a thing of the past as the World Bank teams up with the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). The two entities have signed an Emissions Reduction Purchase Agreement (ERPA) for a project designed to help address traffic congestion on Epifanio De…

There was a news report published in the inside pages of this paper last week, which was sadly largely ignored by other media networks.

Impressed with the electric version of Jeepneys now plying a few routes in the country, some financial institutions have expressed interest to implement similar programs in other countries, according to Philippine Utility Vehicle (PhUV) Inc. Vice President Rommel Juan.

MANILA, Philippines – Hazardous electronic waste is piling up at the Pier 18 dump in Manila, according to an environmental group.

Angela Cropper, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, in her keynote address to the Commonwealth Peoples Forum (CPF) held in Trinidad and Tobago in November 2009, argued passionately for an ecological civilization and supported a partnership between the UNEP, International Labour Organization (ILO), International Organization of Employers (IOE) and the International Trade Union Confederation…

A NONGOVERNMENT organization on Wednesday warned the public against the burning of used tires and trash during the New Year celebration to prevent toxic pollutants from endangering the public health, climate and environment. “Burning up worn tires on New Year’s Eve and setting firecracker wrappings, used boga [PVC cannons], plastics and other discards on fire…

MANILA, Philippines – The air quality in Metro Manila, according to data gathered by the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia), has improved in terms of the Total Suspended Particulates (TSP) level, a 15-percent reduction from 2004 to 2008. The metropolis is less dirty than the more progressive cities of Shanghai and Jakarta as…