Eco-tip #4: Cool tips to fight global warming
MANILA, Philippines -- Whether you drive a gas-guzzling Hummer or take a jeepney to school or office, you let carbon dioxide loose into the atmosphere and contribute to global warming.
Cultural communications to confront climate change crisis
Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo opens a round-table cum exhibit with scientists, artists interfacing with different disciplines, media, business, church and education leaders in a focused discussion to forge a comprehensive creative cultural communications educational plan for Climate Change adaptation.
Climate change now conceded
As oracles of global disaster, Al Gore and the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change should be natural allies. Both were in fact very busy the past two weeks with their common advocacy. The former, billed as America’s ex-future president, spent hours convincing a US Senate panel that industries and individuals do litter the air with greenhouse gases. The latter was reviewing the final version of its report on how climate change will annihilate countries and species.
Eco-tip #3: Simple things you can do to save Earth from global warming
MANILA, Philippines -- Whether you drive a gas-guzzling Hummer or take a jeepney to school or office, you emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and contribute to global warming. But low carbon footprint or not, you can actually help offset this.
Mother Earth and eco-platform
Only when US Vice President Al Gore came out recently with his documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, and won an Oscar for it, people around the world suddenly took notice of a creeping problem that encompasses race, religion, culture and geographical boundaries.
Clean technology needed to save earth – ESP
A breakthrough on clean energy technology without sacrificing economic growth is a must for the planet to preserve itself, according to the Ecological Society of the Philippines (ESP), the country’s leading environmental non-government organization.
Experts warn on climate impact of global warming
BRUSSELS — The world’s top cli-mate scientists were gathering here Monday to hammer out the summary of a massive report that predicts dire consequences from global warming, especially for poor nations and spe-cies diversity.
Protecting a national treasure
There are some undeniable sources of Philippine pride. One is being the world’s center of marine biodiversity, as determined by about 100 scientists from around the globe. In a joint study, the US Smithsonian Institute also declared Verde Island Passage, between Mindoro and the main island of Luzon, as the "center of the center" of the world’s marine biodiversity, hosting close to 60 percent of the world’s species of shore fish.
Biodiversity loss and public health
THE case of the outbreak of the hantavirus respiratory syndrome in the United States serves as a valuable model illustrating the effects of such alterations in ecosystem balances and the relative lack of knowledge about infectious agents in the environment and the processes that uncover them. Six years of drought in the American Southwest, where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet, ended in the late winter and spring of 1993 with unusually heavy snow and rains. These resulted in a superabundance of piñon nuts and grasshoppers, food for the native deer mouse. At the same time, the drought led to a reduction in the predators of the deer mouse, namely foxes, snakes, and owls, and as a result the deer mouse population exploded. It was subsequently learned that deer mice carry a hantavirus that they shed through their saliva and excreta. As a consequence of greatly increased exposure of people in the area to the huge mouse population, an epidemic of rapidly fatal respiratory syndrome developed.
The causes and effects of deforestation
When the first humans arrived in the Philippines from adjacent Asia many thousands of years ago, they found an archipelago that was remarkably rich in natural resources.
