Carbon emissions from forests drop by 25 per cent: FAO

Slowdown in deforestation contributes to emission reduction

Warsaw climate talks: activists shunted out for showing solidarity with typhoon-hit Philippines

Developed countries counter agendas of the EU and the US

Pacific Ocean rising because of human activity

New research warns the ocean near the Philippines and northeast Australia are rising by about 1 cm per year due to human activity

Modified situations

The Philippines introduces stringent laws for GM products; six European countries in the dock for lax GMO laws

Solving poverty

Gurdev S Khush is the principal plant breeder in the Plant breeding, genetics and biochemistry division of the International Rice Research …

22 million people displaced by natural disasters globally last year

Floods, storms and quakes displaced 19 million people in Asia alone

Logjam ban!

Logging bans fail to rectify the fundamental causes of deforestation

Win against waste colonialism: US group pledges restorative action after taking back ‘harmful’ report

A 2015 report by US-based Ocean Conservancy blamed 5 Asian countries for plastic waste

PHILIPPINES

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World population touches 7 billion

Ten billionth baby likely by end of the century if population growth continues at current rate

Caught in the net

The recent ban on shark hunting is only a partial victory for the conservationists. To make it a success, better networking between the coastal …

The Philippines, Australia partner to study ecosystem services of coral reefs, mangroves

Economic cost of dredging on Great Barrier Reef could be as high as $1 billion

CoP18, Doha: a gateway that leads nowhere

WWF worried about Napolean wrasse, an endangered fish

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Why waste a chance?

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

In Brief

Philippines promoting biodiesel from coconut

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In court

European food regulatory body rejects French ban on GM maize

Scientific evidence found lacking in indicating risk to health, environment

Chemical waste dump forces Philippines villagers out

Trade deal inked