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PARIS,France – A few lucky contest winners will be granted the chance to spend a night amongst sharks through an event organised by the Aquarium of Paris and holiday rental website Airbnb, creating a research platform in the process. Contestants must enter the competition through the rental sharing website and write a bit about themselves including why they should be the ones to win by midnight on April 3. Following the selection, different sets of winners […]
By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News online correspondent (Eagle News) — The room was uncomfortably hotter. Maybe because I was only 10 feet away from former US Vice President and global climate action advocate Al Gore or it could be his ‘Nostradamic’ predictions on what happens next with the planet and in the Philippines: At the Climate Reality Leadership Corps held recently by Al Gore’s team at Hotel Sofitel, he emphasized that the global warming pollution is […]
By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News online correspondent (Eagle News) — The Zika virus is connected to the climate crisis and climate change is now a medical emergency. This was just one of the many observations of former United States Vice-President and global climate action advocate Al Gore when he visited the country and again made a call to action against the worsening global warming that the planet is experiencing. At the recent Climate Reality […]
By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News online correspondent (Eagle News) — Impact investing leader James Donovan revealed that carbon scoring is the Philippines’ biggest contribution to global sustainability because of the country’s strong data management capabilities. This, Donovan said in his recent lecture at the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) of the Philippines in Makati City, where he holds the position as the Co-Chair of its Environment and Urban Development Committee. Carbon scoring, according to UK […]
HONGKONG, China (AFP) — Coal plants are draining an already dwindling global water supply, Greenpeace warned Tuesday, consuming enough to meet the basic needs of one billion people and deepening a worldwide crisis. Announcing its first global plant-by-plant study, Greenpeace said coal power use will increase with newly built plants, causing “huge stress” on the world’s major river basins and threatening communities. In its report “The Great Water Grab: How the Coal Industry is Deepening the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Plants respond a bit better to global warming than scientists had thought, according to a new study that suggests their potential contribution to worsening global warming is not likely as bad as researcher believed. When it gets hotter, plants breathe harder. And the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is produced by respiration. That’s why researchers think that as Earth is warmed by CO2 from people’s activities, plants may add to the […]
Earth Hour, organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), rolled across the world last 19 March as millions came together to shine a light on the climate action our planet needs. The 10th edition of the movement’s signature switch-off saw individuals, communities, organizations and landmarks in an unprecedented 178 countries and territories switch off in solidarity with global efforts to change climate change. Taking place months after the historic climate summit in Paris, […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (March 21) – In the Philippines the Coconut tree is called the “Tree of Life’’, because of the endless products derived from its various parts. They say if you’re stranded in a desert island all you have to do is find a coconut tree and you will survive. In fact during the Typhoon Haiyan -known locally as Yolanda- in 2013, affected families survived on coconuts alone for days! From leaves to roots, almost all […]
The United Nation’s cultural body UNESCO has added 20 new sites to its network of protected biosphere nature reserves, including two in Canada and two in Portugal. The status was conferred during a two-day meeting in Lima that ended Saturday, which brought the total number of biosphere reserves to 669 across 120 countries. In Canada, the Tsa Tue area in the country’s Northwest Territories that includes the last pristine arctic lake was added to the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (March 15) – Better mark your calendar, guys. Because on March 19, the whole world will participate in the annual Earth Hour activity. For those who don’t know what Earth Hour is, it is the time when we turn off our lights for an hour as a way to raise awareness regarding climate change. Usually, during Earth Hour, we tend to just stay where we are, waiting for the hour to pass so […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (March 15) – Our generation is the first to experience climate change, and the least we can do is to take a step in preventing the worse. Earth Hour is a campaign that started in Sydney, Australia in 2007. It was participated in by 2.2 million homes and businesses. For a specific day and time, people will simultaneously shut their lights off to save energy and raise environmental awareness. Is an hour of […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Antarctic blue whales, the largest creatures on the planet, likely belong to three populations that feed alongside each other but breed in separate oceans, according to Australian-led research published Wednesday. Using the largest data set ever obtained from the critically endangered subspecies, the study in the Scientific Reports journal seeks to shed light on blue whale populations to aid their conservation. “We found genetic evidence that there are three groups of […]
