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For years, community volunteers have taken care of the Paraiso mangrove forest. They say they need a new generation to take their place and continue to protect it.

Duterte’s lawyers: The defense has no ability to read this volume of evidence prior to trial.

Clutching a copy of the absolute pardon that President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr granted her, 41-year-old Mary Jane Veloso walked out of the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City Friday to freedom in tears.

The prosecution at the International Criminal Court has urged Trial Chamber III to dismiss a defense motion challenging the addition of eight incidents to its trial brief in the case against former president Rodrigo Duterte.

On day 29, Sept. 23, after oral arguments from the prosecution and defense, the impeachment court voted 13-1 to reverse Presiding Officer Francis “Chiz” Escudero’s July 6 ruling that 16 votes—two-thirds of the 24-member Senate—were required to convict Duterte.

After Typhoon Yolanda destroyed much of Tacloban's coast, residents began planting again. More than a decade later, the challenge is no longer simply bringing the mangroves back, but keeping them alive.

Barbed wire barricades once again were up Monday on Mendiola street, not so far away from Malacañang.

The defense of former president Rodrigo Duterte has asked the International Criminal Court Trial Chamber III to reject a prior statement by a witness who allegedly has knowledge of the “neutralization policy” and the modus operandi of the Davao Death Squad.

Cebu is known for its bustling urban landscape, but it is also home to coral reefs, schools of fish and other marine life within its marine protected areas.

Lawyers of Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war victims urged the International Criminal Court to declare the former president fit to stand trial on Nov. 30.

The Las Pinas Paranaque Wetland Park, a protected area in the metropolis, has managed to survive amid pollution and other environmental threats, but coastal flooding is a rising concern.

The impeachment trial took an unexpected turn on Day 26, when the Senate heard four retired Supreme Court justices on a separate but potentially crucial question: whether the two-thirds vote required to convict Duterte should always mean 16 votes in the 24-member Senate.

Dressed in black suit and white polo shirt, Duterte appeared attentive as Trial Chamber III tackled procedural and administrative issues ahead of his Nov. 30 trial on crimes against humanity.

Duterte attends status conference on his case of crimes against humanity at the ICC, The Hague.

In a request filed on Sept. 15, defense lead counsel Peter Haynes said the prosecution should first obtain authorization from Trial Chamber III before including the incidents in the trial brief or remove them because they “exceed the facts and circumstances described in the charges.”

The defense of former president Rodrigo Duterte has asked the International Criminal Court to order additional medical tests to determine whether he is mentally fit to stand trial, saying the recent assessment failed to resolve concerns over his “cognitive impairments.”

The prosecution at the International Criminal has urged the trial chamber judges to declare former president Rodrigo Duterte fit to stand trial and order his continued detention, saying that recent developments have increased his flight risk.

In Bingag, conservation has become part of everyday community life.