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An app that would enable fishermen to receive scientific data without Internet connection developed by a group of Filipino Information Technology professionals is one of the 25 finalists in the the NASA Space Apps Challenge, global level, after a three-day hackathon held recently at the De La Salle University in Malate.

Philippine environment officials see more work to transform into reality what has been agreed upon by over 20,000 delegates from 195 countries in Katowice, Poland last weekend.

It’s no longer “It’s the content, not the wrapper that counts” when giving Christmas gifts.

The head of the Climate Change Commission urged Filipinos to take a stronger commitment to the protection of environment because studies show that Filipinos are among the worst affected by climate change.

Two weeks after it reopened a cleaner Boracay to tourists, the government fulfilled another promise it made to the original inhabitants of the resort island: it handed them certificates of land ownership.

Cemetequette is a term coined by environment- advocate EcoWaste Coalition for“Pinoy Cemetery Etiquette.”

BORACAY ISLAND - Upon entering the unlocked gate of the Ati Community Village in Manok-manok, a row of bamboo houses with concrete base meets the eye of the visitor, while the playful laughter of children can be heard. Two cheerful Ati teen girls curiously pass by. An elderly man with a cane sits on a chair nearby.

BORACAY–Residents and employees of tourist establishments wear masks as they pass through diggings, or ride e-trikes over dusty roads to prevent possible health problems resulting from exposure to dust, contaminated water and garbage waiting to be collected.

The number of tropical cyclones entering the Philippines is slightly decreasing, but their intensity is “becoming stronger,” according Dr. Rosa Perez, the sole Filipino lead author of a landmark United Nations scientific report released recently by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The need to protect the country’s ecosystem has become urgent following the Oct. 8 release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, Secretary Emmanuel De Guzman of the Climate Change Commission (CCC), said.

Unregulated small-scale miners are appealing to the government to help legalize their status so they can continue operating under the state’s supervision and not face work suspension, as what happened to the small-scale miners in the Cordillera region.

A mining town now wants a return to farming.