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BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Thailand is set to deploy rainmaking planes to seed clouds in an effort to tackle the pall of pollution that has shrouded the capital in recent weeks. The weather modification technique involves dispersing chemicals into the air to aid cloud condensation, which should in theory result in rain. “The Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation… expects the rainmaking to be done tomorrow (Tuesday) but it depends on wind and humidity […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse TAMPA. United States (AFP) — Global warming is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before — about six times more per year now than 40 years ago — leading to increasingly high sea levels worldwide, scientists warned Monday. Already, Antarctic melting has raised global sea levels more than half an inch (1.4 centimeters) between 1979 and 2017, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of […]
THAILAND, Bangkok (AFP) — Thailand is set to deploy rainmaking planes to seed clouds in an effort to tackle the pall of pollution that has shrouded the capital in recent weeks. The weather modification technique involves dispersing chemicals into the air to aid cloud condensation, which should in theory result in rain. “The Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation… expects the rainmaking to be done tomorrow (Tuesday) but it depends on wind and humidity […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — As many as a million fish are believed to have died along the banks of a major river system in drought-battered eastern Australia, and the authorities warned Monday of more deaths to come. The banks of the Murray-Darling Rivers are thick with rotten fish, with officials putting the number of dead at hundreds of thousands and saying the toll is likely closer to one million. Further high temperatures forecast for […]
(Eagle News) — Posibleng abutin ng pitong taon at pumalo sa 47 bilyong piso ang gagastusin para sa rehabilitasyon ng Manila Bay. Ayon kay Environment Undersecretary Benny Antiporda, susubukan ng pamahalaan na matapos ang rehabilitasyon na ito sa loob ng pitong taon. Sinabi rin ni Antiporda na hindi magiging madali ang rehabilitasyon ng Manila Bay dahil sa tindi ng kontaminasyon sa tubig. Samantala, iginiit rin ng opisyal na makasisiguro ang publiko na pursigido ang Department […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India has launched a new campaign to improve air quality in more than 100 of its pollution-stricken cities, although an environment group said it lacked detail and the legal backing to ensure it is enforced. Air quality in the country of more than 1.25 billion people has deteriorated to critical levels in recent years, with the capital New Delhi and 13 other Indian cities in the top 15 of a […]
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The rapid growth of renewable energy sources and the demise of fossil fuels are causing major changes in global politics, a special commission said in a report Friday. The shift “will alter the global distribution of power, relations between states, the risk of conflict, and the social, economic and environmental drivers of geopolitical instability,” said a the commission set up by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Solar, […]
(Eagle News) — Isang sugatang dolphin o lumba-lumba ang nakita sa baybaying dagat ng Playa La Caleta Resort sa bayan ng Morong lalawigan ng Bataan. Ayon sa management ng resort nakita ito ng isa nilang guest dakong alas sais ng umaga (6:00 AM) nitong Huwebes, Enero 10. Sinubukang maibalik ito ng mga bantay-dagat ng Bagac at Morong ngunit pilit daw itong bumabalik sa baybayin. Kaya napilitan na silang itawag ito sa kinauukulan. Nagsanib-pwersa naman ang […]
by Sam Reeves Agence France Presse SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Singapore is creating a vast eco-tourism zone in a bid to bring in more visitors, but environmentalists fear the development will damage natural habitats and are already blaming it for a series of animal deaths. While it may be best known as a financial hub with scores of high-rise buildings, tropical Singapore is still home to patches of rainforest and an array of wildlife, from […]
(Eagle News) — Dumoble o nag-triple pa ang mga namili at dumayo sa Divisoria noong nakalipas na holiday season kumpara noong mga nakalipas na taon. Ito ang dahilan kung bakit umabot sa 42 toneladang basura ang nahakot ng Manila City Government. Ayon kay Engineer Che Borromeo, pinuno ng Manila City Task Force Clean-Up, pinakamaraming nahakot ay sa Divisoria, meron din sa Quiapo at Blumentritt market. “Ang Divisoria po sentro ng kalakalan yan. Nandyan po lahat […]
(Eagle News) — Isang astronomical phenomenon ang dapat antabayanan ngayong weekend. Ito ay dahil sa taunang quadrantid meteor shower na nagsimula kaninang madaling araw hanggang sa Lunes, Enero 7. Ayon sa Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), asahan ang nasa 40 ‘shooting stars’ kada-oras sa kalangitan. Dagdag ng PAGASA, mapapanood ang mga meteor mula hatingggabi hanggang madaling araw. Samantala, isa pang phenomenon ang magandang pagmasdan kapag madilim na ang kalangitan. Ito ang conjunction […]
by William WROBLEWSKI Agence France-Presse COROICO, Bolivia (AFP) — High up in the Bolivian cloud forest, a woman tends to her bees, smoker in hand, working from hive to hive under a canopy of leaves to delicately gather panels of honeycomb. It’s a bucolic scene that experts say won’t last, for the bees are dying. The culprit — as in so many other cases across the world — is pesticide. The difference in Bolivia is […]
