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(Eagle News) — The Paris Agreement on Climate Change will take effect in the Philippines next month. This is according to Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate committee on climate change. According to Legarda, the historic agreement that aims to keep global average temperature to well below two degrees Celsius below pre-industrial levels, and to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius, will enter into force in the country on April 22, exactly a year the […]
(Eagle News) — Maliban sa laganap na suliranin ngayon ukol sa iligal na droga ay isa din sa tinututukan ngayon ng mga kapulisan paritkular dito sa bayan ng Carmen, Surigao Del Sur ay ang suliranin hinggil sa illegal logging. Dahil dito ay minarapat ng mga kapulisan na ipamahagi sa mga taga-bayan ang mga leaflets na naglalaman ng mga magiging masamang epekto ng illegal logging sa mga indibidwal. Lalo na ngayon at may tinatawag na global […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France – There’s good and bad news for people, and polar bears, threatened by the Arctic’s vanishing sea ice, scientists said Monday. First the good news: summer ice cover is “virtually certain” to survive if average global warming does not rise more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial era levels, according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. “We estimate there is less […]
Once global warming was exclusively a naturally-occurring process. The Earth’s atmosphere is made up of gases, some of which absorb infrared radiation. This means they retain heat from the sun, forming a thermal layer around the planet. Without this so-called greenhouse effect, temperatures would be around -18 degrees Celsius, so there would be no — or little — life on Earth. But the warming process has been destabilized, as levels of key greenhouse gases — […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US wildlife authorities released on Monday a broad plan to try to save Arctic polar bears from going extinct, as global warming melts away their icy habitat an increasing pace. With just 22,000 to 31,000 polar bears estimated to be left in the world, the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Polar Bear Conservation Management Plan calls for a series of actions to save these iconic creatures. Above all, it calls […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – A massive ice block nearly 100 times the area of Manhattan is poised to break off Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf, scientists reported Friday. A slow-progressing rift suddenly grew by 18 kilometres (11 miles) at the end of December, leaving the finger-shaped chunk — 350 metres thick — connected along only a small fraction of its length. The rift has also widened, from less than 50 […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Global warming is responsible for the melting of mountain glaciers around the world in the last century, scientists said Monday. Since glaciers respond slowly to climate change and are susceptible to yearly weather changes, there has been some debate in the scientific community about whether climate change was entirely to blame for their ice melt. For instance, the last report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded only […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France ( AFP ) – Polar bear numbers could drop a third by mid-century, according to the first systematic assessment, released Wednesday, of how dwindling Arctic sea ice affects the world’s largest bear. There is a 70 percent chance that the global polar bear population –- estimated at 26,000 -– will decline by more than 30 percent over the next 35 years, a period corresponding to three generations, the study found. Other assessments have […]
DAVAO CITY (Eagle News) – Pumirma sa isang kasunduan si Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte at si Mayor Kenji Kitahashi ng Japanese City of Kitakyushu para sa isang Environmental Agreement. Ang nasabing Strategic Environmental Partnership Agreement ay kanilang pinirmahan sa Conference Hall ng City Hall, Davao kamakailan. Layunin nito na mabuo ng isang proyekto sa Davao na gawin ang lungsod bilang isang modelo para sa “Intercity Cooperation sa Pilipinas”. Ang partnership agreement ay nagpapahintulot na matuto mula […]
by Céline Serrat and Marlowe Hood MARRAKESH, Morocco (AFP) – The year 2016 is on track to be the hottest on record, the UN forecast Monday, while the World Bank calculated that 26 million people slip into poverty annually due to natural disasters, reflecting the risks posed by climate change. Scientists, meanwhile, reported that greenhouse-gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming, remained constant for the third year running in 2015. All […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux MARRAKESH, Morocco (AFP) –Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels have been nearly flat for three years in a row — a “great help” but not enough to stave off dangerous global warming, a report said Monday. Emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide stayed level in 2015 at 36.3 billion tonnes (GtCO2) and were projected to rise “only slightly”, by 0.2 percent in 2016, according to the annual Global Carbon Budget report compiled […]
(Eagle News) – After lengthy discussions with his Cabinet members and advisers, President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday (November 7) said he would now uphold and sign the Paris Agreement which seeks to put a cap to emissions that contribute to global warming. Duterte said he and his cabinet members took several hours to discuss the Paris climate deal, a worldwide pact to battle global warning that entered into force on Friday, Nov. 4. This […]
