Tag: climate change

Duterte says he had “fired” 16 gov’t officials for frequent travels, climate change meetings abroad

  (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said that he had already “fired” 16 government officials, including three department secretaries, aside from undersecretaries and cabinet members, because of their frequent travels attending “climate change conferences” all over the world. The President did not name who these officials were, except that he fired them for their frequent travels connected to climate change meetings abroad. “There’s a climate change in Africa and they are there. There’s a […]

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Duterte urges nations to work on preventing nuclear tests, avoid war, in speech on climate change

  (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte urged all countries to do all they can to stop nuclear testing and explosions, and to avoid war, as these not only destroy people’s lives, but also endanger the environment and cause global warming. During the Asia-Pacific Healthy Islands Conference on Wednesday,July 25, held at the Marco Polo Hotel in Davao City, the President said that nuclear explosions and war greatly change the “ecosystem of the world.” Because […]

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Great Barrier Reef on sixth life in 30,000 years: study

(AFP) — Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, under severe stress in a warmer, more acidic ocean, has returned from near-extinction five times in the past 30,000 years, researchers said Monday. And while this suggests the reef may be more resilient than once thought, it has likely never faced an onslaught quite as severe as today, they added. “I have grave concerns about the ability of the reef in its current form to survive the pace of […]

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Global warming may have ‘devastating’ effects on rice: study

by Kerry Sheridan Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) — As carbon dioxide rises due to the burning of fossil fuels, rice will lose some of its protein and vitamin content, putting millions of people at risk of malnutrition, scientists warned on Wednesday. The change could be particularly dire in southeast Asia where rice is a major part of the daily diet, said the report in the journal Science Advances. “We are showing that […]

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Duterte: Paris Agreement “could be a farce” if “industrialized nations” do not comply

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, May 9, said the Paris Agreement could turn out to be a “farce.” “(This) could be a farce if we cannot compel the other nations especially the industrialized nations to follow,” the President said after the presentation of New Generation Coins in Malacanang. While Duterte welcomed the limits to carbon footprints being imposed in the agreement signed by 194 countries, including those from the European Union and […]

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Videographics: Polar ice caps melting as Arctic heats up

The world’s polar ice caps are shrinking little by little. The Arctic is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the planet…with Greenland’s glaciers receding particularly quickly. This process is speeding up all by itself. Melting snow exposes ice underneath, which then absorbs the sun’s rays and increases thawing. At the opposite end of the earth, 90% of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula are starting to disintegrate. Ice melt is also […]

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DILG sa LGUs: Makiisa sa Earth Hour sa Marso 24

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nanawagan ang Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) sa lahat ng local government units (LGUs) sa bansa at sa publiko na makiisa sa isasagawang Earth Hour 2018. Ang Earth Hour ay isasagawa sa Sabado, Marso 24 mula 8:30 ng gabi hanggang 9:30 ng gabi. Ayon kay DILG Officer in Charge Eduardo Año, bilang mga lider sa kani-kanilang komunidad ay kinakailangan nilang ipakita sa kanilang mga nasasakupan ang […]

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‘Sinking’ Pacific nation is getting bigger: study

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — The Pacific nation of Tuvalu — long seen as a prime candidate to disappear as climate change forces up sea levels — is actually growing in size, new research shows. A University of Auckland study examined changes in the geography of Tuvalu’s nine atolls and 101 reef islands between 1971 and 2014, using aerial photographs and satellite imagery. It found eight of the atolls and almost three-quarters of the islands […]

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Canada hopes G7 summit serves as springboard for new ideas

by Michel COMTE Agence France-Presse OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada hopes the upcoming G7 summit it is hosting will serve as a springboard for fresh ideas on key issues including climate change, the global economy and security, the lead organizer told AFP. “The G7 serves well as a proving or testing ground for discussions that could eventually go into the G20 or the United Nations or international financial institutions,” Peter Boehm, Canadian Prime Minister Justin […]

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Climate change: can hummingbirds take the heat?

by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Extreme heat sometimes forces hummingbirds to seek shade instead of foraging for food, researchers said Wednesday, warning that global warming could test the tiny birds’ capacity to adapt. With hearts beating more than 1,000 times a minute, hummingbirds need to feed constantly, which means they can ill afford to spend time dodging sunshine, according to a report in the journal Royal Society Open Science. “They […]

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Scientists discover resilient ‘heart’ of Great Barrier Reef

MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is in peril from climate change and widespread bleaching, but scientists said Tuesday a small portion may be resilient enough to keep much of the rest alive. About three percent of the World Heritage site — home to the planet’s largest collection of coral reefs with 3,800 in all — has so far emerged relatively unscathed from a host of threats, from warming waters to pollution […]

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$129B in extreme weather losses last year: climate report

by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse Extreme weather caused some $129 billion (111 billion euros) in economic losses last year, said a report Tuesday that warned the bill will keep climbing as climate change boosts droughts, storms and floods. There was a 46-percent increase in weather disasters from 2010 to 2016, with 797 “extreme” events recorded last year, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal. These “resulted in $129 billion in overall […]

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