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It will be one of the most beautiful solar eclipses over the Philippines.
If you’re still alive on April 20, 2042, you can witness a phenomenon that may never happen ever again: A solar eclipse that will trace its darkest shadow over the entire stretch of Palawan, going eastward over Masbate, and then finally exiting ...
Imagine just harvesting plants instead of mining the earth for metals.
A little-known plant that is fairly new to science eats metal and absorbs soil pollutants, and it is found in only one place in the world: Luzon, Philippines. Rinorea niccolifera (Violaceae) is a metal-eating plant that has the ability to hyperaccumulate or absorb ...
Crowns of vivid pink disturb the expansive green canopy in Masungi Georeserve.
In the middle of the forest in Masungi Georeserve, crowns of vivid pink disturb the expansive green canopy. Philippine cherry blossoms or salinggogon (Cratoxylum formosum) are starting to bloom, signaling the arrival of the dry season in the Philippines. Native to the Philippines, ...
Nadine Lustre is an ally, defender, and honorary park ranger of Masungi Georeserve.
Embattled sanctuary Masungi Georeserve can always count on its ally, defender, and honorary ranger ...
The limestones of Masungi formed 60 million years ago after a meteor strike wiped out the dinosaurs.
Something tiny and slimy is crawling on the wet and jagged surface of the mountainside: a microsnail, the size of a grain of rice. Measuring just 4 millimeters long, the Masungi microsnail is the newest species of snail in the world. Scientists ...
The BuCor wants to build its headquarters at the heart of the protected reserve.
The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), which runs the prisons in the Philippines, has postponed its plans to construct buildings on top of Masungi Georeserve's Lot 10, a 35-hectare land that features fragile limestone formations millions of years old. It is also home ...
I don't want to catch this one.
A Filipino-led team of scientists has discovered a new species of cockroach at the Bukit Timah nature reserve in Singapore and aptly named it after a Pokemon. Nocticola pheromosa is a new species of cockroach discovered by Cristian C. Lucañas, an entomologist ...
The creature looks like a cute chipmunk.
No one has seen a Mindanao treeshrew in living memory—until two Filipino biologists rediscovered the elusive creature, hidden in a nest in the jungles of Dinagat Island in Mindanao. “The nest entrance was covered by a pile of debris including leaf litter, twigs, ...
Five new species were discovered in the world in 2023. Two are from the Philippines.
In the thickest jungles of the mountains in eastern in Mindanao, something soft with a golden-brown fur scurries on the forest floor: a hedgehog completely new to science. Podogymnura intermedia lives on two places in the world: Mount Hamiguitan and Mount Kampalili, ...
