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As Philippine coastal village sinks, who’s paying for the damage?
By: Eco-Business.com Barangay Alaska is a coastal village in Aringay, La Union, a bucolic municipality 244 kilometres north of Manila. In this village, 306 families are fighting to protect their homes, and their existence as a people, from vanishing into the sea. As of 2010, Alaska had a land area of 237 hectares in its […]
Continue readingForests and Landscapes in Indonesia
By: WRI INDONESIA Data-driven analysis to support government and civil society actions for effective and equitable land-use in Indonesia. This project includes work formerly known as Project POTICO. Indonesia is the world’s fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, mainly due to the conversion of its forests and carbon-rich peatlands. These shifts in land use have […]
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Indonesia plants bamboo to fight climate change
By: The Jakarta Post Cultivating bamboo could help Indonesia mitigate the impacts of climate change, an Indonesian environmental scientist said during a side event of the United Nations climate conference in Bonn, Germany. At the event, Arief Rabik, founder of the Bambu Lestari Foundation, said planting bamboo was a very effective way to rehabilitate […]
Continue readingSaving tuna-rich Philippine Rise seen to boost PH food security
By: SEARCA FANSSEA The Department of Agriculture (DA) is pushing for the conservation of Philippine Rise, an undersea region east of Luzon, for it to be a rich food source for Filipinos. “We are advocating the declaration of the Philippine Rise as a Protected Food Supply Exclusive Zone,” Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said in his […]
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When There Are No More Fish
By: Eater Climate change, drought, and development have devastated Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, which feeds millions across Southeast Asia.Climate change, drought, and development have devastated Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, which feeds millions across Southeast Asia. Talk to a fisherman anywhere in the world and it won’t be long before you’ll hear the tales: the first […]
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The global cooling crisis: What Southeast Asia can do about it
By Eco-Business.com From keeping medicines and vaccines useable to allowing food to be stored and transported over long distances, cooling technologies such as refrigerators and air conditioners have improved human health, productivity and prosperity over the past century. A projected surge in their use over the next few decades, however, also poses a significant environmental […]
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