VERA Files
Our coverage of environment and climate change issues, including “cold” cases of environment disasters. Earth Files is supported by Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, which aims to empower journalists from developing countries to cover the environment more effectively.
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.
Manila – Metro Manila was spared the wrath of typhoon Ompong (international name Mangkhut), which hit Northern Luzon hard, but the heavy rains caused flooding and the scourge of plastic wastes surfaced once again.
MANILA – For the 18 journalists and journalism students who attended VERA Files’ training workshop on Reporting “Cold” Environment Cases at the Richmonde Hotel in Pasig City last June 28, it was a look-back, a review, and for some, a jarring reminder of the horrors of covering an environmental disaster.
SONA 2017 promises on the environment
Duterte declared a state of calamity in Boracay on April 26, Day One of the six-month closure of the popular tourist destination.
The damage, however, was too extensive in some areas.