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Green group rejects push for revival of Philippine mining industry

The outgoing economic team of President Rodrigo Duterte pressed for the revival of the mining industry to generate more jobs

Dead rivers: The cost of Bangladesh’s garment-driven economic boom

Environmentalists say growth has come at an incalculable cost, with a toxic melange of dyes, tanning acids and other dangerous chemicals

SPOTLIGHT: ‘Miracle spice’ changing lives of women in Indian village

Church program in rural India giving hope and empowering women to be self-reliant while doing the "impossible" as a "service to God"

Green group raises alarm over bill on plastic use that allegedly...

A 2019 research by the group Nature Climate Change found that if plastic was a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter in the world

Marcos urged to listen to communities affected by coal-fired power plants

“He should involve the communities and civil society, including the academe, in making an educated decision”

Scientists, tribesmen, notables join outcry against quarries

Quarrying destroys the karst dating back to the Paleocene epoch 66-56 million years ago in the Marikina watershed

Green activists report ‘fresh wave’ of surveillance, harassments

Posters tagging several progressive groups as “communist fronts” were thrown at the gates of offices of pro-environment NGOs

Diocese of Boac to ask Marcos to declare Marinduque province ‘mining-free’...

The prelate said about 83 percent of the small island is “mineable” and "if we let the miners in, nothing will be left of the island"

Promote sustainable agriculture

Agriculture has only contributed .02% to the Gross Domestic Products (GDP) in the last decade in the Philippines

Photos: Pedal for People and Planet on World Environment Day 2022

Climate activists and bikers pedaled in the Philippine capital on Sunday, June 5, 2022, to mark this year’s World Environment Day

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