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BARCELONA, Spain, May 5, 2024 (ENS) - The 2024 Ocean Decade Conference, held in Barcelona from April 10 to 12, attracted over 1,500 participants from 124 countries and thousands of online viewers. Under the theme "The Science We Need for the Ocean We Want," this conference emerged as one of the largest-ever gatherings of the global oceanic community. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business

In the February issue of Eos, we dive deep to better understand opportunities, challenges, and ongoing mysteries posed by carbon's role in marine environments.

QUEZON CITY, June 4 (PIA) — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has presented a challenge to the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, teachers, as well as the DENR utility personnel, to promote care for the environment in their own ways, during the learning session for the...

QUEZON CITY, May 31 (PIA) — In the second part of the webinar “Climate Change is Changing our Coastal and Marine Ecosystems”, the Climate Change Commission (CCC), together with RARE Philippines, underscored the need to communicate the effects of climate change to local coastal...

Published May 14, 2021, 4:39 PM The waters of Sarangani Bay remain hale and hearty after more than 200 dolphins were spotted in different parts of the Bay early this week. HEALTHY SEAS. Some 150-200 Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) and 16 Risso’s dolphins (Grampus griseus) were monitored and documented May 12-13 off the coasts of Alabel town, Sarangani province. (Photo courtesy of the Sarangani Bay Protected Seascape-Protected Area Management Office/MANILA BULLETIN) Joy Oloquin, prote...

Published May 11, 2021, 12:07 AM By virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 37 issued by President Joseph Ejercito Estrada in 1999, the month of May was declared as the Month of the Ocean (MOO). Perhaps preoccupied by the pressing demands of containing a still-raging pandemic, the government’s current observance of May as the Month of the Ocean is understandably muted and low-key. This year’s observance of Month of the Ocean is doubly significant.  It marks the start of the United Nations ...

  In line with the celebration of the Month of the Ocean (MOO) this May, DENR Regional Executive Director Paquito Moreno Jr. stressed that conserving the healthy state of coastal areas and sustaining their abundant marine resources would be more achievable if local communities would partake in the mission to keep the water bodies clean.    "Our collective effort can achieve more to protect and save our marine resources. Marine ecosystems are home to diverse and unique biodiversity, and serve...