Earth 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.

Reports, Earth Files

A decade after Ondoy, lessons are still being learned

Ten years to the day, the memories of that…

Klaire Ting

Reports, Earth Files

From New York to Guiuan, millions join global strike for climate

The protests, part of the Global Climate Strike,…

Imelda V. Abano and Jessica Pagatpatan

Reports, Earth Files

Using clothes vs. owning them: why this distinction matters in the fight against climate change

Twenty-seven-year-old fashion entrepreneur Prince…

Purple Romero

Earth Files

Online science writing site cites Filipino science writer’s article on fruit bats

Science and environment writer Tristan Mañalac’s…

Klaire Ting

Reports, Earth Files

Red tagging puts PH as ‘deadliest country’ for environment defenders: Global Witness

"President Rodrigo Duterte’s government has ramped…

Ellen T. Tordesillas

Reports, Earth Files

Small mines remain closed but a ‘Minahang Bayan’ may open soon

Typhoon Ompong (international name Mangkhut)…

Text and photos by Maria Elena Catajan

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