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Tree-planting rush overlooks climate benefits from natural forest recovery

Michael Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Sep 24 04:26 AM

KUALA LUMPUR - Leaving cleared tropical forests to regrow naturally has the potential to absorb a quarter of global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels each year, researchers said on Wednesday. Read more »

Most Americans to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by July 2021

Reuters
Sep 24 04:20 AM

A top US health official told a US Senate committee on Wednesday that he expects COVID-19 vaccinations to take place over many months and that most Americans could be vaccinated by July of 2021 at the latest. Read more »

ABS-CBN broadcast shutdown malaki ang epekto sa public viewership, ayon sa KBP

Johnson Manabat, ABS-CBN News
Sep 23 11:34 PM

MAYNILA - Bumagsak ang bilang ng mga nanonood ng telebisyon simula nang tumigil sa pag-ere ang mga programa ng ABS-CBN sa free channel matapos patayin ng 70-Kongresista ang prangkisa ng Kompanya.    Read more »

It's Alan vs Allan all over again: winner takes all

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Sep 23 11:16 PM | Updated Sep 24 02:43 AM

MANILA - The looming rematch for supremacy of the House of Representatives between incumbent Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco may prove to be the opening salvo of the bigger political contest that is the 2022 national elections, where the winner may just take it all. Read more »

A COVID-19 vaccine for children may not arrive before fall 2021

Carl Zimmer, The New York Times
Sep 23 07:14 AM

Adults may be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine by next summer. But their kids will have to wait longer. Perhaps a lot longer. Read more »

On Venus, cloudy with a chance of microbial life

Dennis Overbye, The New York Times
Sep 23 07:02 AM

It has been a while — like, forever — since anyone claimed to have discovered life on Venus. Read more »

Is the coronavirus affecting the hearts of college athletes?

Gretchen Reynolds, The New York Times
Sep 23 06:51 AM

In a new study of 26 college athletes who tested positive for the coronavirus, four later showed signs of inflammation in their heart muscles. The study, published in JAMA Cardiology, was small and limited but tees up the issue of whether COVID-19, although primarily a respiratory disease, might also affect the hearts of infected people, even if they are young, strapping and otherwise healthy. Read more »

Book Review: ‘The Battle of Marawi’ takes readers into the heart of armed conflict

Fernando G. Sepe Jr., ABS-CBN News
Sep 23 05:32 AM | Updated Sep 23 03:36 PM

“The Battle of Marawi” (Pawikan Press, 2020) is a vivid recounting of what transpired in the provincial capital of Lanao del Sur over six months in 2017. Read more »

Fighting climate change urgent as battling COVID-19, Duterte tells UN

John Gabriel Agcaoili, ABS-CBN News
Sep 23 04:51 AM

MANILA - The urgency required to fight the raging coronavirus pandemic is also needed to tackle climate change that is affecting the world in different but severe ways, President Rodrigo Duterte told the UN General Assembly.   Read more »

Expert agrees with Robredo that PH COVID-19 response 'not enough'

ABS-CBN News
Sep 22 11:55 PM

"Tayo lang po sa buong Southeast Asia at Indonesia ang hindi nakapag-flatten ng curve. In fact, number 1 tayo sa new and active cases," he said.   Read more »

[email protected]: Pandemic of repression

ABS-CBN News
Sep 22 03:52 AM | Updated Sep 22 03:55 AM

Human rights advocates hold various protests as the country commemorates the 48th year of the declaration of martial law in 1972. Read more »

Coronavirus, pinupuntirya rin ang utak: pag-aaral

ABS-CBN News
Sep 21 11:05 AM | Updated Sep 21 11:06 AM

Hindi lang baga ang pinupuntirya ng novel coronavirus, maari rin nitong pasukin ang utak na nagdudulot ng sintomas gaya ng delirium at confusion, ayon sa isang pag-aaral. Read more »

Number of elderly in Japan reaches record 36.17 million

Kyodo News
Sep 20 08:52 PM

The number of Japanese aged 65 and older totaled a record-high 36.17 million as of this month, up 300,000 from a year earlier, government data showed Sunday. Read more »

The UN marks 75th anniversary facing world split by COVID-19

Philippe Rater, Agence France-Presse
Sep 19 05:20 PM

Everyone else will have to appear by videoconference, including some 160 to 170 heads of state and government planning addresses.   Read more »

COVID-19 death toll unacceptably high: WHO

Agence France-Presse
Sep 19 03:22 AM

The respiratory disease has killed nearly 947,000 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP, while more than 30.2 million cases have been registered. Read more »

Mobile phone radiation may be killing insects: German study

Agence France-Presse
Sep 18 12:46 PM

BERLIN - Radiation from mobile phones could have contributed to the dramatic decline in insect populations seen in much of Europe in recent years, a German study showed Thursday. Read more »

China, seeking a friend in Europe, finds rising anger and frustration

Steven Lee Myers, The New York Times
Sep 18 05:16 AM

In country after country, China is facing rising anger over its policies and its behavior — from trade to human rights — a major setback on a continent that Beijing has viewed as a more pragmatic, and thus more willing, partner to provide ballast against sharply deteriorating relations with the United States. Read more »

European Parliament urges PH to grant ABS-CBN broadcast franchise

ABS-CBN News
Sep 18 01:41 AM | Updated Sep 18 05:13 AM

The resolution -- which had 626 votes in favor, 7 against and 52 abstentions -- cited the denial of ABS-CBN's new application of franchise after it expired "as an act of retaliation for the media’s coverage of the anti-drugs campaign and serious human rights abuses." Read more »

Asia-Pacific ministers vow to boost health cooperation amid pandemic

Kyodo News
Sep 18 01:06 AM

TOKYO - Finance and health ministers from member countries of the Asian Development Bank on Thursday agreed to boost cooperation toward making health care systems accessible to anyone in developing countries, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Read more »

Transgender workers say Argentina jobs quota a step towards acceptance

Sonia Avalos, Magali Cervantes and Carlos Reyes, Agence France-Presse
Sep 17 05:31 PM | Updated Sep 17 06:14 PM

A decree by President Alberto Fernandez's government published last week in the official Gazette requires that 1 percent of all public sector jobs be set aside for transgender people. Read more »

Kumusta ang mga Pinoy nurse?

ABS-CBN News
Sep 17 03:07 PM

Lalong nakita ngayong may pandemic ang pagiging underpaid at undervalued ng mga nurse at iba pang health care workers, ayon sa International Council of Nurses. Ang mga Pinoy nurse, kumusta kaya? Panoorin sa video na ‘to. Read more »

Kanye West’s perplexing run as a potential 2020 spoiler

Danny Hakim and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times
Sep 17 08:00 AM

Kanye West wants to bring back prayer in schools, give more government support to religious groups and has even asked his campaign staff to refrain from “fornicating” outside of marriage, according to people aiding his candidacy.   Read more »

An experimental drug protects COVID-19 patients, drug maker Eli Lilly claims

Gina Kolata, The New York Times
Sep 17 06:21 AM

A single infusion of an experimental drug has markedly reduced levels of the coronavirus in newly infected patients and lowered the chances that they would need hospitalization, the drug’s maker announced Wednesday. Read more »

COVID-19 nurse deaths in the thousands worldwide

Agence France-Presse
Sep 17 12:24 AM

GENEVA - More than a thousand nurses are known to have died worldwide due to COVID-19, the International Council of Nurses said Wednesday, adding that the true figure was likely far higher. Read more »

World lost 100 million hectares of forest in two decades: UN

Agence France-Presse
Sep 16 06:33 AM

PARIS - The world has lost nearly 100 million hectares of forests in two decades, marking a steady decline though at a slower pace than before, a UN agency reported Tuesday. Read more »