Top four ways to shrink your carbon footprint are often overlooked
MIAMI — Researchers in Sweden have identified the top four things people can do to reduce their carbon footprint, but warned on Tuesday these...
New study reveals how frogs flourished after dinosaurs croaked
MIAMI — A massive asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago created room for frogs to colonize the Earth, said...
Are asteroids humanity’s ‘greatest challenge’?
PARIS -- Throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummeled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash in the...
Water challenges flow from lack of strict law implementation
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
THE Philippines has 30 water-related government agencies, and yet, around eight million Filipinos still do not have access to...
UN chief: Save the oceans to avert ‘global catastrophe’
UNITED NATIONS (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres recently urged countries to put aside national gain to save the oceans and avert a “global catastrophe”...
In the name of conservation: eavesdropping on fish sex
SCIENTISTS recently unveiled a unique new method for counting stocks of threatened fish — eavesdropping on their love calls when the fish gather in...
In China, maggots finish plates, and food waste
THOUSANDS OF voracious white maggots wiggle frenetically while tearing through trayfuls of leftover meat, vegetables, and fruits in an unusual farm in southwestern China.
It...
Envoys wade in to help US waters despite Trump climate snub
PRESIDENT Donald Trump may have torpedoed the Paris climate accord as US diplomats brace for huge cuts to their environmental programs. Recently, however, American...
Faceless fish among weird deep sea Australian finds
FACELESS FISH and other weird and wonderful creatures, many of them new species, have been hauled up from the deep waters off Australia during...
Aquarium art brings climate debate to NY Times Square
PERFORMANCE ART in a giant water tank is bringing climate science to New York’s Times Square as Donald Trump has the world guessing on whether...
From trash to treasure
STUDENTS from three leading fashion schools in the country joined the Aboitiz Foundation’s recent Green Fashion Revolution, a fashion design competition that challenges participants...
Fossils suggest hominids may have lived alongside modern humans
MAROPENG, SOUTH AFRICA — Primitive hominids may have lived in Africa at the same time as humans, researchers said Tuesday, in new findings that...