Environment and Sustainability
Habitat preservation propagates more medicinal trees, plants
Habitat protection will preserve medicinal plants and allow them to multiply and enable experts to maximize the economic and health...
Agriculture holds key to water crisis and food security — FAO
BEIJING—Agriculture can help conserve the world’s overstretched water resources and make sure people have enough to eat and drink, the...
World not on track to hit climate objectives
The world is not on track to meet the long-term goals set out in the Paris Agreement for limiting global...
Pueblo de Oro installing solar panels to make property projects sustainable
Pueblo de Oro Development Corp. (PDO), the property development arm of the ICCP Group, is walking the sustainability talk as...
Construction sector should cut emissions
The building sector, responsible for an astonishing 37 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, has been lacking climate-focused development funding,...
Spotlight on Bukidnon: Indigenous knowledge helps preserve the environment
(Conclusion) Multiple indices rank the country as among those most affected by extreme climate events. Over the past decade, highly...
WMO notes increasing pollution as heatwaves worsen air quality
Amplified by wildfires and desert dust fanned by climate change, more frequent heatwaves are leading to a sharp drop in...
UNESCO sites offer defense vs extinction
Some of the world’s most iconic natural and cultural sites are also a haven for thousands of endangered species, the...
Coasts, marine life in peril due to sand extraction
Source: www.ecowatch.com Geneva, Switzerland—Findings from a new UN data platform reveal that the marine dredging industry is extracting a staggering...
Spotlight on Bukidon: Indigenous knowledge preserves the environment, leads to sustainability
In the mountainous province of Bukidnon in the southern Philippines, local indigenous groups are being forced to adapt to the...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.