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Mga kabataan, hinimok na maging parte ng kampanya vs climate change

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 15 07:26 PM

Ayon sa isang opisyal ng gobyerno, malaking bagay ang pagkakaroon ng climate literacy. Hinikayat naman ng mga opisyal ang kabataan sa bansa na lumahok sa mga kampanya kontra climate change, dahil sila daw ang pinakaapektado nito pagdating ng araw. Read more »

PH cement player taps data science and AI to cut carbon emissions

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 09 11:16 AM

A Philippine cement player says it is using data science and artificial intelligence to cut its carbon emissions and make its manufacturing processes more sustainable. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: June 8, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 08 11:56 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Ocean is life

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 08 12:07 PM

A fisherman looks for the best spot to collect seashells at Manila Bay near Baseco Compound in Manila on Tuesday. Rising sea levels due to climate change are threatening lives and livelihood in low-lying and coastal communities around the world, according to a study by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).    Read more »

CHR urged to stand up for fisherfolk

Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 08 12:00 PM

Fisherfolk and environment advocates stage a picket at the Commission on Human Rights Headquarters in Quezon City to call on the commission to stand up for fishing communities heavily affected by climate polluting firms to mark World Oceans Day on Tuesday. Read more »

Dwindling water level in California’s second largest reservoir

Patrick T. Fallon, AFP
Posted at May 30 12:55 PM

Houseboats are moored at the Lake Oroville reservoir during the California drought emergency on May 25, 2021 in Oroville, California, USA. Summer has not even begun and Lake Oroville, the second-largest reservoir in California that provides drinking water to more than 25 million people, is at less than half of its average capacity at this time of year. Read more »

Rising global temperatures 'inexorably closer' to climate tipping point - UN

Andrea Januta, Reuters
Posted at May 27 09:40 AM

There is now a 40 percent chance that global temperatures will temporarily reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in the next 5 years -- and these odds are rising, a UN report said Wednesday. Read more »

Shell ordered to deepen carbon cuts in landmark Dutch climate case

Bart H. Meijer, Ron Bousso and Shadia Nasralla, Reuters
Updated as of May 27 08:27 AM

A Dutch court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to drastically deepen planned greenhouse gas emission cuts on Wednesday, in a landmark ruling that could trigger legal action against energy companies around the world.   Read more »

Duterte institutionalizes AHON disaster aid program

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 25 06:57 PM

MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte has institutionalized a program that aims to accelerate aid distribution during disasters, showed a document Malacañang released on Tuesday.    Read more »

Firefighters battle forest blaze near Athens

Reuters
Posted at May 21 09:25 PM

Greek firefighters battled for a third day on Friday a wind-driven blaze that burned through pine forests about 60 km (37 miles) west of the capital Athens and forced hundreds of people to evacuate from their homes. Read more »

Here is how this company promises to mitigate climate change

Nestlé
Posted at May 21 03:37 PM

The earth can no longer wait for humans to go green as climate change is a real and ongoing calamity. To leave behind a healthy world for the next generation, relevant environmental initiatives must be aggressively implemented. Read more »

Record 55 million people internally displaced worldwide

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 20 01:14 PM

Conflicts and natural disasters forced someone to flee within their own country every second of last year, pushing the number of people living in internal displacement to a record high, monitors said Thursday.    Read more »

Filipinos told to take action vs global warming as nation swelters

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 16 04:19 PM

Manila Bishop Broderick Pabillo on Sunday urged Filipinos to care for the environment as the country experienced a sweltering summer and climate disasters, according to him, are exacerbated by mining activities. Read more »

US envoy wants pope to attend climate conference, sway debate

Reuters
Posted at May 16 01:00 AM

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has the moral authority to sway public opinion over global warming and might attend the United Nations' Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Scotland, US President Joe Biden's climate envoy John Kerry said on Saturday. Read more »

No electricity? Typhoon survivors, NGOs seek solar solutions for tribal communities

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 15 11:41 AM

MANILA — For the last 5 decades, members of the Dumagat-Remontado tribe living in Brgy. Laiban, Tanay, Rizal have been without electricity.    Read more »

Tesla's Musk reverses course on taking bitcoin, citing climate concerns

Hyunjoo Jin and Kanishka Singh, Reuters
Posted at May 13 08:20 AM

Tesla Inc has suspended the use of bitcoin to purchase its vehicles because of climate concerns, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said in a tweet on Wednesday, reversing the company's stance in the face of an outcry from some environmentalists and investors.   Read more »

Asian Development Bank proposes ending financing for coal-fired power plants

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 07 09:52 PM

MANILA - The Asian Development Bank will stop financing new coal power plants under a draft energy policy released Friday that was cautiously welcomed by environmental groups. Read more »

Lost in the Mediterranean, a starving grey whale must find his way home soon

Alexandre Minguez. Reuters
Posted at May 07 06:36 PM

ARGELES-SUR-MER - A young grey whale lost in the Mediterranean, thousands of miles away from its natural habitat in the Pacific ocean, is desperately seeking its way home, but biologists are worried it may not survive. Read more »

US climate envoy Kerry says islands face 'beyond existential' threat

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 04 11:51 PM

MANILA - US climate envoy John Kerry said Tuesday island nations faced a situation "beyond existential" due to climate change, as he called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies and coal plant financing. Read more »

Humanity taking ‘colossal risk’ with our future, Nobel winners say

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 30 09:07 AM

Only profound changes in the way society produces, distributes and consumes almost everything can forestall potentially catastrophic changes, 10 Nobel laureates said. Read more »