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by Patrick GALEY Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Climate change-induced disasters cost nations at least $100 billion in 2018, a watchdog said Thursday, warning the spate of deadly wildfires, floods and superstorms was “a shadow” of things to come if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t slashed. This year is set to be the fourth hottest on record and as planet-warming carbon and methane levels in the atmosphere continue to rise, extreme weather events such as […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s vast continent is sizzling through extreme heatwave conditions this week, with temperatures reaching record highs and emergency services on high alert for bush-fires. The mercury is up to 16 degree Celsius (29 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than usual for this time of the year for southern Australia, with numerous towns setting new December records, the Bureau of Meteorology said Friday. “Heatwave conditions are being experienced across large parts of the country,” […]
(Eagle News) — Isa sa patok na hiking spot na talaga namang dinarayo ng mga mahilig sa hiking adventure beginner man o professional hiker na ay ang Mt. Magarwak na matatagpuan sa Brgy. Bacungan sa lungsod ng Puerto Princesa. Mula sa sentro ng siyudad ay 30 hanggang 40 minuto ang biyahe bago marating ang paanan ng bundok kung saan 15 kilometro mula sa bayan patungong norte ng lungsod ang layo nito. Ang bundok ng Magarwak […]
by Shaun TANDON Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Japan has made good on years of threats by bolting the International Whaling Commission, but its decision may also offer a way out of tensions that looked inextricable. Japan, which calls whaling part of its cultural heritage, said Wednesday it would withdraw from the seven-decade-old commission which since 1986 has banned commercial killing of the ocean giants. But while Japan vowed to forge ahead […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese people react to the government’s decision to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission and resume commercial whaling next year, which has already sparked criticism from activists and anti-whaling countries including Australia. https://youtu.be/7N5oLLae7MQ
TOULOUSE, France (AFP) The release of additional bears into the Pyrenees mountains straddling France and Spain is needed to ensure the fledgling population’s survival, the activist group charged with the bears’ protection said Wednesday. “The good news of 2018 is without doubt the release of two bears in the Bearn region in October,” the Ferus association said, referring to the border region. “But there’s still a long road ahead of us,” it added. Government officials […]
(Eagle News) — Dalawang buwan makaraan ang reopening ng isla ng boracay ay naglabasan na naman ang mga dating problema sa nasabing tourist destination. Sa kanilang liham sa Boracay Inter-Agency Task Force (BIATF), sinabi ng mga residente at business operators sa isla na dapat maging seryoso ang pamahalaan sa pagmo-monitor sa isla. Hanggang ngayon anila ay patuloy ang pagsasamantala ng ilang grupo sa kabilang paghihigpit ng BIATF. “It was a painful experience for us who […]
by Shingo ITO / Miwa SUZUKI Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan said Wednesday it is withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission and will resume commercial whaling next year, sparking criticism from activists and anti-whaling countries including Australia. The announcement comes after Japan failed earlier this year to convince the IWC to allow it to resume commercial whaling. Top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said the commercial hunts would be limited to Japan’s territorial waters. […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — 2018 was the hottest year in France since modern records began in 1900, the French meteorological service said Friday. “This year was the hottest France has known since modern meteorological measures came into use in 1900,” Meteo-France said. The average temperature of 14 degrees centigrade (57.2 Fahrenheit) was 1.4 degrees above the average recorded between 1981 and 2010, it said in a statement. That put it ahead of two other remarkably […]
by Miguel SANCHEZ Agence France Presse VALPARAISO, Chile (AFP) — Off the coast of Chile, fisherman face competition from a cunning carnivorous hunter that has decimated their industry due to its voracious appetite. For Chile’s fishermen, sea lions are a “plague.” “They’re an enemy!” complained Mario Rojas to AFP. “We try to make them go away but it’s impossible!” Part of the wider seal family that was once hunted mercilessly all over the world, leaving […]
(Eagle News) — Tiniyak ni Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu isang bagong tanawin ang masisilayan sa Manila Bay susunod na taon. Ito’y matapos tanggapin ni cimatu ang hamon na pagsasagawa ng rehabilitasyon sa Manila Bay. Ayon kay Cimatu, nagsimula na siyang makipagpulong sa mga kinauukulang ahensya para masimulan na ang rehabilitasyon sa unang buwan ng bagong taon. Aniya gagawin nila ang lahat upang maibaba ang coliform level sa Manila Bay […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — The world’s only known albino orangutan has been released back into the jungle more than a year after she was found emaciated and bloody in a remote corner of Borneo, an Indonesian NGO said Friday. Environmentalists rescued “Alba” from a cage where she was being kept as a pet by villagers in Central Kalimantan in April last year. She was found with dry blood smeared around her nose — the result […]
