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The Philippines is home to 1,019 bodies of water, ranging from inland freshwater (rivers, lakes, and groundwater), and marine (bay, coastal, and oceanic waters), according to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. However, urbanization and industrialization not only reduce the ...

The Philippines stand out as a nation with amazing biodiversity. I've had the opportunity to visit many parts of the country and write about some of it right here on Esquire (see here, here, and here). But even the rocks the ...

In case you didn't know, the Philippines once moved its capital city from Manila to Quezon City. In the late 1930s and throughout the 1940s, President Manuel L. Quezon wanted to build a new city that would not only decongest the ...

There's a lost continent that may be hiding right underneath our feet. Researchers from Utrecht University found that fragments of a landmass called Argoland that split from the supercontinent Gondwana may be hiding underneath the region where Southeast Asia is located ...

Zealandia had so much promise as the eighth continent on Earth. Well, it did-until about 95 percent of the mass sunk under the ocean.While the majority of Zealandia may never host inhabitants-at least, not land-based ones-the would- ...

Manila may be best known for being the capital of the Philippines, but the city near the bay with Intramuros, Binondo, and Rizal Park is far from being the only one in the world with that name.We scoured the world (and ...

Before we relied on Google Maps' Street View and Waze, actual printed maps helped voyagers explore faraway lands and seas, gave astronomers an idea of the vastness of the solar system, and pointed hikers in the right direction. These maps depicted spaces ...