Ecology and Environment

There’s a new trend in the world that’s working against the planet, you know, the one you’re standing on. This new trend, over the past year or so, spells “thumbs down” for planet Earth. It’s disheartening, fraught with danger, change…

The power of humanity, the longing for peace and the conviction that violence can never be the solution radiate from the action of the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence in Berlin, which this video impressively captures. By Reto…

Quezon City, Philippines  — Yesterday, November 15, 2024, advocates from various sectors gathered to amplify the call for a Climate Emergency Declaration in response to the escalating impacts of the climate crisis. This Global Day of Action for Climate Justice,…

The Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement on climate change, was signed on January 11, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan to limit the amount of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Although the protocol entered into force in 2005, its achievement remains…

Gubat, Sorsogon — In solidarity with fisherfolk, crab farmers, and other coastal community members from Gubat, Sorsogon, the Save Gubat Bay Movement (SGBM), in partnership with the Kurit-Lagting Art Collective and the Concerned Artists of the Philippines Bicol Chapter (CAP…

With the UN climate talks in full swing in Baku, new research by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) exposes the EU’s climate hyCOPrisy, using COP29 to greenwash Azerbaijan’s gas as more climate friendly so it can justify doubling imports and still claim to…

by Marivic A. Wance Last November 4, 2024, the Municipal Local Government Unit (MLGU) of Kibungan Benguet sponsored the tree-caring activity through the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO) that organized and funded it and the Municipal Environment and…

As we write, New York City is an unsettling 70 degrees in November. Meanwhile, a cohort of war profiteers, their pockets lined by the very industries destroying our climate, are flying to COP, the annual U.N. climate summit hosted by…

Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations COP29 Climate Change Conference Elnur Soltanov has been recorded by Global Witness apparently agreeing to help facilitate fossil fuel industry deals at the summit, reported The Guardian. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes A member of the campaign organization posed as a fake oil…

Pledges-heightened Campaign to Protect Water Bodies   The Philippine-Misereor Partnership Inc. (PMPI) is extremely worried about the recent coal barge accident in Zambales that devastated a crucial fish sanctuary alongside the catastrophic coal spill in Sorsogon. The MV Katapatan 2,…