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“My father has always been a Pescador, our term for fishermen,” says Cocoy Garcia, a 38-year old fisher, as we strolled around his stilt village in Culion, Northern Palawan. “I was nine when he first took me out. We caught baskets of squid that first night, lured in by the glow of our petromax lamp.” Together, Cocoy and his father fished for decades. The old Pescador taught his son the age-old skills of the sea […]
Greenhouse gas emissions by the world’s top 500 companies rose 3.1 percent from 2010 to 2013, far off the cuts urged by the United Nations to limit global warming, a study showed on Monday. The top 500 firms by capitalisation accounted for 13.8 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions and 28 percent of gross domestic product in 2013, according to the report, drawn up by the information provider Thomson Reuters and BSD Consulting, a global […]
Inside a sealed, airtight clean room at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,Maryland, an international of team scientists and engineers all dressed in white jumpsuits is building what its members hope will provide a deeper look into space than ever before, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). “The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s really the next big space telescope that is being built, so it […]
(Reuters) – A disgraced Japanese researcher has failed to replicate results hailed as a potential breakthrough in stem-cell treatment and efforts to do so will be abandoned, officials at her research institute said on Friday. The scandal involving the research, which detailed simple ways to reprogram mature cells back to an embryonic-like state, eventually led to the retraction of papers published in the influential journal Nature and tarnished the reputation of Japanese scientific research. The […]
The New York premiere of “The Interview”, a Sony Pictures comedy about the assassination of North Korean President Kim Jong-Un, has been canceled and a source said one theater chain had scrapped plans to show it, after threats from a hacking group. The hackers, who said they were also responsible for seizing control of Sony Corp’s computer system last month, on Tuesday warned people to stay away from cinemas showing the film starring James Franco […]
Water is gold. With increased population, consumption and climate change, multi-city alliances will be crucial in managing essential ecosystem services such as water provision. Rapidly-urbanizing landscapes in the CALABARZON region are confronted by challenges on flood and watershed management. In Laguna’s Santa Rosa Sub-watershed, groundwater studies show how rates of extraction will exceed rates for groundwater recharge by 2023. Many shallow wells in lakeside Laguna communities are reported to be depleted, polluted and unfit for […]
The United Nations declared that Sierra Leone experienced the most number of Ebola-related casualties.
One of the causes of death in the recent typhoon is hypothermia. What are its symptoms? How do we treat it?
The Philippine Women’s University (PWU) and the Israel Embassy in Manila held a special event where an alumna of class 1944 spoke to the class of 2014 – a journey of 70 years in a time machine. On December 3, Margot Cassel-Pins was joined by her family in the video room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel to address the students in the PWU Hall, sharing stories about her life journey that is […]
The Department of Health warns those who are staying in the evacuation centers to be careful of such diseases like diarrhea and flu.
The Philippine Red Cross will send volunteers to Ebola-stricken countries to participate in the international effort to suppress said epidemic.
(Reuters) – Starbucks Corp, aiming to give cooling U.S. traffic a jolt, on Thursday announced it will add beer, wine, and evening snacks to thousands of domestic cafes, widen lunch offerings and roll out mobile ordering. Such efforts are part of the world’s biggest coffee chain’s plan to broaden its appeal as a destination with consumers who are spending more time shopping online rather than in malls and Main Street stores. The company, which is […]
