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NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India, the world’s third biggest carbon emitter, ratified the Paris agreement on climate change on Sunday on the birthday of the country’s famously ascetic independence leader Mahatma Gandhi. India, with a population of 1.3 billion people, is the latest big polluter to formally sign onto the historic accord which now takes a major step towards becoming reality. Environment minister Anil Madhav Dave said “India deposited its Instrument of Ratification of […]
TOKYO, Japan — Japan’s cabinet office disaster management team released online two video depicting the damage expected to hit both Tokyo and central Japan following major earthquakes that scientists say are predicted anytime soon, in an appeal to citizens to prepare for the worst.
CHENGDU, China (Reuters) — At the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base on Thursday (September 29), 23 panda cubs, made their first public debut ahead of China’s National Day, which falls on October 1. Aged between one and four months old, the cubs lay on their bellies, occasionally exerting just a little effort to crawl a few inches forward. This year, the research base has welcomed almost double the number of newborn pandas, according to […]
A global trade ban has been imposed on trade in highly endangered pangolins, a scaly creature that is the world’s most poached mammal.
Alam natin na napakaraming magagawa sa mga basura at mga kagamitan na luma na maaaring gawing recycled materials. Pero alam nyo ba na sa mga basurang ito ay maaaring makagawa ng mga instrument tulad ng violin. Kahit pa nga trumpet at flute. https://youtu.be/xhBLE3beCS8 Tinawag itong Landfill Harmonic. Nagtuturo sila sa mga estudyante ng pagtugtog ng musika gamit ang mga instrumentong mula sa piraso ng mga basura o mga di na ginagamit na kagamitan. Ayon sa […]
KENYA, Africa (AFP) — Dozens of Maasai warriors have undergone a dramatic life-change in the last decade, foregoing their ancestral role as lion-hunters to become guardians. It’s part of a conservation scheme in southern Kenya, that also aims to help their community. https://youtu.be/A5trGd9G-iA
Ilang environmentalist ang nanawagan sa pamahalaan na pagtuunan din ang giyera sa basura at polusyon. Ayon sa green thumb coalition, tila hindi pa rin nalulutas ang matinding probklema sa basura. May detalye si Aily Milyo: https://youtu.be/JkTdoV1w6nk
QUEZON City, Philippines (September 27) – The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is an atomic power plant, finished yet never energized. It is located on the Bataan Peninsula, 100 kilometers west of Manila. It is situated on a 3.57 square kilometer government reservation at Napot Point in Morong, Bataan. It was the Philippines’ lone endeavor at building an atomic power plant. The Philippine Atomic Project began in 1958 with the founding of the Philippine Atomic Energy Commission or PAEC […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Nine out of 10 people globally are breathing poor quality air, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, calling for dramatic action against pollution that is blamed for more than six million deaths a year. New data in a report from the UN’s global health body “is enough to make all of us extremely concerned,” Maria Neira, the head of the WHO’s department of public health and environment, told reporters. The problem […]
by Sören BILLING COPENHAGEN Denmark (AFP) — A snow-covered former US army base in Greenland — dubbed “a city under ice” — could leak pollutants into the environment as the climate changes, raising difficult questions over who is responsible for a clean-up. In 1959, US army engineers began constructing a futuristic project in northwestern Greenland that might as well have been lifted from a Cold War spy movie. A network of tunnels under the snow contained everything […]
Johannesburg, South Africa (AFP) by Susan NJANJI Reclusive, gentle and quick to roll up into a ball, pangolins keep a low profile. But they are also the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal, and experts at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) conference this week are ringing alarm bells over their survival. Demand for pangolin meat and body parts has fuelled a bloodbath, and driven the scale-covered, ant-eating mammal towards extinction. More than […]
Ahead of the CITES conference for endangered species in Johannesburg, conservationists raise awareness on sharks and the threats they face from overfishing. https://youtu.be/s6WDVvNjZ8s
