Some fish tackle ocean global warming by pretending it’s night
OSLO — Some fish may cope with the changing chemistry of the oceans linked to global warming by permanently setting their body defenses to...
Pesticides diminish bee sperm: study
PARIS -- Neonicotinoid pesticides, already blamed for short-circuiting honeybee brains, also diminish their sperm, possibly contributing to the pollinators’ worrying global decline, researchers said...
Last month was hottest June on record
WASHINGTON -- Last month was the hottest June in modern history, marking the 14th consecutive month that global heat records have been broken, the...
E. Asian shipping emissions kill tens of thousands
PARIS -- A sharp rise in shipping emissions in east Asia is killing tens of thousands of people in the region every year and...
India court orders old cars deregistered in smog-hit Delhi
NEW DELHI -- India’s environment court Monday ordered all diesel vehicles older than 10 years to be deregistered in New Delhi, strengthening a ban...
Five questions on Germany’s green energy shift
BERLIN — Germany’s Energiewende or energy transition is its biggest infrastructure project of the post-World War II era, and its greatest national challenge since...
Coal dust kills 23,000 per year in EU: report
PARIS — Lung-penetrating dust from coal-fired power plants in the European Union (EU) claims some 23,000 lives a year and racks up tens of...
Drug lord’s pet hippos roam Colombian village
DORADAL, COLOMBIA — More than 20 years after Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar died in a gunfight with police, a strange legacy survives him:...
36 bird species make a home in Davao park
THIRTY-SIX bird species — several of which are considered endangered — were recently identified as living at the Aboitiz Cleanergy Park in Davao City,...
Indonesia plans peat monitoring system to curb choking haze
JAKARTA -- Indonesia is planning a hi-tech monitoring network to protect peatland at the center of last year’s raging fires that cloaked Southeast Asia...
Coral laboratory grows in Batangas
THE COUNTRY’s first underwater laboratory has been constructed in Mabini, Batangas, one of the country’s top scuba diving spot.
The Coral Restoration Field Laboratory is...
Challenge: Solar panels on your roof
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman, Reporter
Solar energy is expensive, unreliable, impractical, and uneconomic. These are some of the myths on solar power that...