Ecology and Environment

POEM (On the occasion of the World Environment Day)         by Genevieve Balance Kupang   Invigorated from a deep, sound slumber, a Sea of clouds greets refreshed eyes. How Magnificent! The Soul is overwhelmed by boundless artistry…

PERSONAL ACCOUNT/PHOTO ESSAY         On the same day that the world was observing the United Nations World Environment Day across the globe, there was a small number of people who gathered in Seoul to discuss social matters.…

Unsustainable logging by the forest products industry is driving massive carbon emissions. By Reynard Loki Covering a third of the planet’s land surface, forests are massive carbon sinks, absorbing and storing carbon dioxide and keeping it out of the atmosphere…

ESSAY           In 2003, the IUCN ranked the Caspian Tiger as extinct, the very same tiger that, 10,000 years before, paved the way for the famous Silk Road. The Silk Road is where different kingdoms meshed…

Dear Greta Thunberg: I write this letter to you, regretting that finally you were not able to come to Chile on December 2019, due to the cancellation of the environmental summit that was going to be developed in our dearest…

Civil society groups, informal waste workers associations, faith-based institutions, trade unions, academe and community-based organizations from all over the country called for the withdrawal of Senate Bill No. 1789, also known as the “Waste-to-Energy Act” authored by Senator Sherwin Gatchalian.…

“Net Zero by 2050” is the rallying cry of scientists and policymakers throughout the world. However, that epithet echoes past decades of climate change/global warming mitigation plans, one after another, all failures. The world’s continuing failure to come to grips…

27 May 2021, Quezon City.  Government, industry and civil society groups lauded the shortlisting of the country’s landmark lead paint regulation for the Future Policy Award 2021 (FPA 2021) by the World Future Council (WFC).  The 12 shortlisted policies from…

“This is a turning point in history,” said an attorney who noted that the ruling “may also have major consequences for other big polluters.” By Jessica Corbett Climate campaigners worldwide are celebrating after a Dutch court on Wednesday ordered fossil…

This was one of the statements which Dr. Carlos Ferreyra, Argentinian medical epidemiologist and climate activist, made in an interview which he gave to Pressenza on the occasion of the 74th World Health Assembly, and as promoter of the 1st…