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by Ye Aung THU Agence France-Presse Nyaung Shwe, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s famed Inle Lake has enchanted tourists for decades with its floating gardens and the graceful leg-rowing style of its fisherman, but experts warn the lake is drying up and urgent action is needed to avoid disaster. Each year around 200,000 foreigners and one million locals visit Inle — a vast, serene body of water surrounded by verdant hills. Many criss-cross the lake on small wooden […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia officially declared a Great Barrier Reef rodent extinct on Tuesday, making it the first mammal believed to have been killed off by human-induced climate change. The rat-like Bramble Cay melomys — whose only known habitat was a small sandy island in far northern Australia — has not been spotted in a decade. Researchers from Queensland determined a key factor in its disappearance was “almost certainly” repeated ocean inundation of the […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — A bulk carrier stranded on a coral reef off the Solomon Islands is being battered by heavy seas whipped up in a tropical cyclone, sparking fears a major environmental disaster. Officials said water had already breached the hull of the MV Solomon Trader, which ran aground on February 5, and one unconfirmed report said oil was leaking from the vessel. The 225-meter (740-foot) ship hit a reef near Rennell Island, […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — This handout picture released by the Tierpark Berlin shows the still unnamed female 11-week-old icebear cub during a first veterinary examination at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, on February 14, 2019. /Steffen FREILING / TIERPARK BERLIN / AFP
HOBART, Australia (AFP) — Tasmania’s ancient rain-forest and alpine flora species face an uncertain future, scientists have warned, after out-of-control bush-fires consumed vast tracts of wild bush land. As authorities downgraded emergency warnings Friday, with wetter weather — and even some snow — bringing respite from more than a month of rolling fires, scientists warned they are still assessing the damage to the island’s unique environment. Wildfires have scorched over 205,000 hectares (500,000 acres) in […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Runoff from recent floods in northern Australia is flowing onto parts of the Barrier Reef, scientists said Friday, starving coral of light and providing fodder for the predatory crown-of-thorns starfish. Parts of northern Queensland are still reeling after nearly two weeks of unprecedented rainfall that turned roads into rivers and inundated hundreds of homes with floodwater. Scientists at James Cook University say the floods swelled a number of rivers along hundreds […]
(Eagle News) — Hinimok ng Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ang sinumang tatakbong kandidato para sa 2019 mid-term elections na huwag haluan ng politika ang isinasagawang rehabilitasyon sa Manila Bay. Ayon kay Environment Undersecretary Benny Antiporda, dapat itigil ni Senatorial Candidate Erin Tañada ang pamumulitika sa paglilinis sa look. Reaksyon ito ng opisyal matapos sabihin ni Tañada na hindi dapat minamadali ang rehabilitation at posibleng magdulot ito ng marami pang utang. Aniya, ang […]
(Eagle News) — Dahil sa pansamantalang pagsasara ng isla ng Boracay, kabilang sa mga ipinasara at ipinaayos ang ilang mga establisyemento, hotel at mga resort dahil sa paglabag sa patakaran ng isla lalo na sa usaping pangkalinisan. Makalipas ang anim na buwang muling unti-unting pagbangon at pagsasaayos sa isla para sa patuloy na paglago ng turismo sa ating bansa, umabot sa 316 kabuuang mga hotel at resort na ang maaaring makaaccomdate ng mga bisita dahil […]
(Eagle News) — Hindi makaka-apekto sa kita ng mga mangingisda at stake holders sa Taal Lake ang dalawang buwang pagbabawal sa paghuli ng tawilis. Ito ang sinabi ni Department of Environments and Natural Resources-Batangas Officer Jose Elmer Bascos, dahil marami pa namang isda ang makukuha sa Taal Lake gaya ng karpa, tilapia at bangus. Ang lawa ng Taal ang siyang ikatlo sa pinakamalaking lawa sa bansa kasunod ang Laguna Bay at Lanao Lake sa Mindanao. […]
Malaysian authorities have made a record seizure of about 30 tonnes of pangolins and their scales worth some $2 million in raids on major processing facilities, police and environmentalists said Tuesday. The haul included about 1,800 boxes full of frozen pangolins stuffed inside three refrigerated containers, 572 more frozen pangolins in six freezers, 61 live pangolins in cages, and 361 kilogrammes (795 pounds) of pangolin scales, according to police. The Southeast Asian nation is battling […]
Australia’s largest cattle company has warned of “extreme losses” after record-breaking floods, as producers said more than 300,000 cows were drowned or washed away in the vast continent’s northeast. After more than five years of drought, heavy rains over an almost two-week period turned dusty and parched land in Queensland state into vast swathes of mud that bogged down already weakened cattle. Australian Agricultural Company Ltd (AACo) said Monday that four of its properties were […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Nearly half of all insect species worldwide are in rapid decline and a third could disappear altogether, according to a study warning of dire consequences for crop pollination and natural food chains. “Unless we change our way of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades,” concluded the peer-reviewed study, which is set for publication in […]
