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Imagine if we actually protected our marine protected areas.
Carbon dioxide is a vital resource for life on Earth, specifically for photosynthesis of plants and for keeping the planet from freezing. But, as we know, too much of anything is bad. And the current amount of carbon dioxide in the air ...
The agreement aims to get a slice of the P500-Billion climate resilience market.
An agreement that will establish the Climate Resilience Technology (CResT) platform has been signed between the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), DEVCON Philippines, and De La Salle University (DLSU). The CResT platform seeks to develop and scale climate tech solutions that ...
This marks the first time subsidence in Philippine metropolitan cities has been mapped and measured.
It's no secret that countries like the Philippines are among the most especially vulnerable countries when it comes to climate change. With 60 percent of the Philippines' 110-plus million population found in the coastal zone, subsidence and rising sea levels ...
Heat-related illnesses, fires, outages, and shortages are only the beginning.
My partner and her colleagues arrived in La Union sometime around 2:00 p.m. last Sunday for a work trip. Like most guests, they'd been warned about the heat. This time, however, the discretion adopted an uncharacteristically somber tone. Someone ...
The heat is no joke.
The whole world is reeling from the effects of intense heat brought by climate change - the workforce, in particular - according to the International Labor Organization (ILO).A new study from the ILO revealed that more than 70 percent of workers across ...
A new study reveals how climate change could send food prices soaring worldwide.
We have observed the rising cost of food regularly for years now, so this news might not surprise us anymore. Increasing temperatures, as a result of climate change, may cause food prices to escalate by 3.2% yearly, a new study by ...
And what you need to know about heat index.
A heatwave was reported to affect nations across Southeast Asia on April 4, according to Swiss air quality technology company IQAir. This is attributed to both the El Niño event sweeping through the region and human-induced climate change, leading to ...
Amidst the scorching heat wave, hailstones emerge. Here's the science behind it.
Recently, several barangays in Kabacan, Cotabato reportedly experienced, err, not snow, but hail. With the kind of temperatures we see in the daily heat index reports these days, it can be unfathomable. In early March, Cotabato city had even logged the highest ...
In a nutshell: it's not going to be pretty.
As climate change worsens, the Philippines is expected to bear the brunt of its worst effects. This means extreme heat waves, less crops ready for production, and, yes, much more severe typhoons. Based on the findings of the University of the Philippines- ...
As the UN Secretary-General said, the “era of global boiling has arrived.”
If breaking the daily heat index record a bunch of times wasn't enough to scare us, then this piece of information will: July 2023 has officially been confirmed to be the hottest month on record ever for the world.According to ...
July could be the warmest month in 120,000 years, an expert suggests.
The heat the past week was no fluke. There's such a thing as everyday Philippine heat, but new data shows that the temperature in the United States last Monday and Tuesday (Tuesday and Wednesday for us here in the Philippines) was ...
In an age of climate crisis, failures like the one during the recent Mississippi tornado are inexcusable.
In case you were wondering, nature doesn't care about your opinion on recent legal wrangling in NYC. Nature's coming again. From our friends at the National Weather Service:One can only hope all the warning systems are in place. There ...
Based on climate-induced damage ratios.
Climate change-driven disasters like typhoons, rising sea levels, or flooding are only going to get worse from here. And the Philippines is set to be one of the worst-hit countries in the world for it. In recent years, we've ...
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