News Archive 2
Denmark banks on offshore wind power for ‘clean’ future
May 12, 2007
ESBJERG, Denmark–Denmark, a world leader in wind energy production and consumption, has built the world’s largest offshore wind park in the North Sea as it aims to generate 75 percent of its electricity needs with wind power by 2025.
Groups raise alarm over ‘repackaged’ incinerators
May 11, 2007
A visiting activist from California warned against a new generation of waste incineration technologies that is being marketed as “state-of-the-art” machines that will eradicate trash without.
Six-year study ties coral disease to warmer oceans
May 10, 2007
MIAMI — Warmer sea temperatures are linked to the severity of a coral disease, according to a study on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef that offers a dire warning about global warming’s potential impact on the world’s troubled reefs.
Slash-and-burn farming decimating Negros Oriental forest
May 10, 2007
DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines — Slash-and-burn farming continues on the mountains of Negros Oriental despite the arrests and cases filed by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) against those involved in the highly destructive method.
Renovating homes to resist heat
May 10, 2007
A STUDY CONDUCTED AT the UP Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology’s College of Science reveals some of the hottest places in Metro Manila. (Inquirer, 5/3/07) Can simple home renovations or home designs help dissipate the summer heat? For those who do or do not have the budget, architects and home designers offer these suggestions.
RP, Thailand agree to pursue common biofuels standards
May 9, 2007
WITH each country having its own biofuels program, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand energy heads have agreed to pursue the development of common standards for biofuels, Energy Secretary Raphael P.M. Lotilla told reporters.
Bangkok turns lights out to highlight global warming
May 9, 2007
BANGKOK — Thailand’s capital turned the lights out Wednesday in an effort to raise awareness of global warming, with six Bangkok neighborhoods plunged into partial darkness for 15 minutes.
Resolution vs global warming doomed to fail
May 7, 2007
A United Nations panel on Friday released its most comprehensive strategy to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming, but experts said that political and economic realities likely doom it to failure.
Take urgent steps to cut greenhouse emissions, gov’t urged
May 6, 2007
MANILA, Philippines–Citing a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Greenpeace has called on the government to take “urgent steps” to help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
RP launches biofuel, motorists wait
May 6, 2007
MANILA — The Philippines’ biofuels law came into effect on Sunday with little fanfare or information and only a partial rollout of the much-vaunted 1 percent coconut blend diesel.
Despite perils, UN report upbeat on climate change
May 6, 2007
BANGKOK–After two grim warnings on the impact of climate change, the world’s top experts were unusually upbeat in assessing ways to protect the Earth, but said that national leaders have no time to waste.
Climate change deal reached in Bangkok; technology, funds available
May 5, 2007
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — International delegates agreed Friday that the world has the technology and money to limit catastrophic global warming, but that it must act now to reduce the harmful effects of greenhouse gas emissions.
ADB to spend $ 1 B for clean energy development in 2008
May 5, 2007
KYOTO, May 4 (Reuters) — The Asian Development Bank said on Friday it would spend at least billion on clean energy projects in 2008, as it seeks to strengthen its role in balancing economic development and environmental concerns in the region.
Greenpeace to ADB: ‘Respond to climate emergency’
May 5, 2007
KYOTO, Japan — The international environment group Greenpeace challenged the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Saturday to match the severity of climate change impacts with an equally serious emergency response by putting all its resources and expertise behind renewable energy initiatives.
Only coco-diesel blend sold as Biofuels law takes effect
May 5, 2007
MANILA, Philippines — Starting Sunday, only the mandatory one-percent coco biodiesel blend will be sold in pumping stations nationwide as the Biofuels Act of 2006 takes effect.
Arctic ice cap melting 30 years ahead of forecast
May 4, 2007
WASHINGTON — The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a US ice expert said on Tuesday.
Global warming and agriculture
May 4, 2007
MANILA, Philippines — In the past week, we experienced unusually high temperatures. As Earth continues to warm, the climate will change in ways that may seriously disrupt our lives unless we immediately change some of our practices.
Spratly’s fish stock dwindling, say scientists
May 3, 2007
DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines — Scientists from Vietnam and the Philippines have expressed alarm over the dwindling fish stock in the Spratly Islands and called for the immediate protection by the Philippine government of the Jackson Atoll, their study area 200 miles west of Palawan, which showed the most promise for recovery.
Huge volcanic eruptions cool earth, counter global warming
May 2, 2007
MANILA, Philippines — Would you believe that volcanic eruptions cool the atmosphere and, in a way, counter global warming?
RP environmentalists denounce Japan
May 2, 2007
MANILA, Philippines — Filipino environmentalists protested outside the Japanese embassy in Manila Wednesday to denounce a free trade deal they claim could lead to the dumping of toxic waste here.
Targeting rice paddies may reduce greenhouse gas emissions
May 2, 2007
BANGKOK, Thailand — As delegates at a global warming conference hash out the best ways to reduce greenhouse gases, one of the problems–and a possible solution–may lie just outside Thailand’s teeming capital in the country’s rice fields.
Hero of Earth buried with full honors
May 2, 2007
MANILA, Philippines — Audy Angchangco had wanted so much to be a law enforcer that he sometimes ran after snatchers and petty thieves with an unlicensed gun in hand, friends recalled.
Hundreds of seals die in Caspian Sea — officials
May 1, 2007
ASTANA — Kazakh officials have blamed the deaths of more than 800 seals off its Caspian Sea coastline on an abnormally warm winter and the early melting of sea ice.
Japan to set up US$100 million environment fund at ADB
May 1, 2007
TOKYO — Japan plans to contribute US$100 million to set up a special fund at the Asian Development Bank to finance environmental projects, reports said Tuesday.
Slight rise of sea level in Cebu noted
May 1, 2007
Manila — It has been sizzling for half a century, so get ready to take it all off.
Bush, EU leaders deadlocked on climate change
May 1, 2007
WASHINGTON — US President George W. Bush and visiting European leaders agreed Monday to define global warming as a serious problem requiring “urgent” action, but deadlocked on what concrete remedies to apply.
Global warming threatens to sink half of Navotas
April 30, 2007
MANILA, Philippines — Global warming threatens to submerge parts of Manila and wipe out entire islands, a conservation group warned, as it brought its campaign to cut carbon dioxide emissions to the Philippines.
Alternative energy source lights isolated village
April 30, 2007
“Thank you for the light! Thank you AMORE!” residents of Barangay Bual, a remote and impoverished coastal village in the municipality of Luuk, 65 kilometers northwest of Jolo, Sulu chorused in their vernacular as they welcomed AMORE visitors recently to their remote village.
Fossil Arctic animal tracks point to climate risks
April 30, 2007
COAL MINE SEVEN, Svalbard, Norway—Fossils of a hippopotamus-like creature on an Arctic island show the climate was once like that of Florida, giving clues to risks from modern global warming, a scientist said.
Warning on water crisis aired
April 29, 2007
The water shortage currently being experienced in many parts of the world will reach origin levels globally by 2025, according to the United Nations (UN). Half of the world’s population will be affected by the dwindling water supply, the UN report stated.
More RP coal plants to abet global warming–Greenpeace
April 29, 2007
ENVIRONMENT watchdog Greenpeace has warned the Philippines that building more coal-fired power plants would only increase carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the country instead of mitigating global warming.
Battery dumping threatens Liguasan Marsh
April 29, 2007
PAGALUNGAN, Maguindanao — Chemical waste disposal from used batteries is threatening the Liguasan Marsh’s biodiversity, according to local officials here.
China dream a nightmare for climate change
April 29, 2007
BEIJING–At the age of 27, marketing executive Zack Chen is living the modern China dream. Holidays in Europe, modern appliances at home and a high-paying job with a foreign car company.
Environment’s spy in the sky gets a new lease of life
April 29, 2007
MONTREUX, Switzerland–Eight hundred kilometers above the earth’s surface, a huge European satellite that tracks greenhouse gas emissions, melting ice packs and rising sea levels is getting a new lease of life.
