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A helicopter flies over the drying out River Magdalena, which is currently experiencing its lowest level since environmental authorities began their measurements 50 years ago, due to an intense drought in Colombia, caused by El Niño phenomenon. Fisherman Gabriel Barreto walks barefoot along the river’s parched and cracked riverbed, which flowed with water six months ago and is the most important in the South American country. Standing in his canoe, Barreto repeatedly throws his net […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (January 18) – The El Niño phenomenon currently occurring in the Asia Pacific region –yup, our country’s included—continues to intensify. It started on September 2015, and is expected to endure till the first quarter of this year. Along with the scorching heat, different problems comes along with it, such as lack of rainfall, poor harvests and significantly declined water supply. With these things in consideration, weather modification and manipulation comes into the scene. […]
A tongue lashing you wouldn’t want to be on the end of… especially if you’re this chameleon’s favorite snack. Called Rhampholeon spinosus, it’s small enough to fit on a human thumb. But the rapid recoil of elastic tissues in its tongue when it strikes puts its bigger relatives to shame. Research published in scientific journal Nature on the feeding technique of 20 species of chameleon found smaller ones could project their tongues 2-and-a-half times their […]
Soaring temperatures in Central America due to climate change are forcing farmers to pull up coffee trees and replace them with cocoa plants, spurring a revival in the cultivation of a crop once so essential to the region’s economy it was used as currency. Farmers across the region, known for its high-quality arabica beans, are still recovering from a devastating coffee leaf rust disease known as roya that wiped out crops over the past three […]
Bibisita sa bansa ngayong 2016 ang International Actor na si Matt Damon. Miyembro ang aktor ng organisasyon na Water.org na tutugon para magkaroon ng malinis na inuming tubig ang mga taga-Tacloban, Leyte.
Taking the Reuse, reduce, recycle in a whole new level! Let’s learn and exchange ideas this January as we celebrate the National Zero Waste Month 2016. Infographics designed by Eliud Barcelona Research by Judy Ann Casamayor
The Socratea exorrphiza also known as the ‘Walking Tree’ is the only tree that can move and walk around the rainforest floor. These ‘Walking Trees’ can move up to two to three centimeters every day or 20 meters every year. (Eagle News Service)
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology is monitoring the activity of Mt. Kanlaon in Negros due to an eruption recorded yesterday which resulted in an intensity 2 earthquake. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by Lovely Ann Cruz)
Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage has agreed to turn over a rare stolen dinosaur skull he bought for $276,000 to U.S. authorities so it can be returned to the Mongolian government. The office of Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, filed a civil forfeiture complaint last week to take possession of the Tyrannosaurus bataar skull, which will be repatriated to Mongolia. The lawsuit did not specifically name Cage as the owner, but Cage’s publicist confirmed […]
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has taken the best images yet seen of the dwarf planet Ceres, showing the cratered surface of the planet in great detail. Ceres is a miniature planet beyond Mars believed to be left over from the formation of the solar system. The newly-released images were taken on December 10 at the lowest altitude flown yet by Dawn, just 240 miles (385 kilometers) above the planet’s surface, a NASA statement said. The photos, […]
As negotiators in Paris creep closer to a deal on moving the world towards a low-carbon energy system, Chinese coal towns, already hit by a slide in prices, are facing a crisis. In Jixi, a coal town less than 20 miles from the Russian border, mines lie abandoned and workers say they haven’t been paid for months. “Coal these days is not doing well, it’s all going down, the price is really low, workers’ salaries […]
(Reuters) — Global warming has not paused, but more research is needed to understand the level that might cause tipping points or irreversible damage to the earth’s climate system, the chair of the U.N. panel of climate scientists told Reuters on Tuesday (December 8). In 2013, the panel reported a slowdown or “hiatus” in warming since about 1998, despite rising man-made emissions of greenhouse gases, heartening skeptics who said the risks of climate change […]
