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The year 2019 ended with many Cebuanos and fellow Filipinos reeling from the impacts of Typhoon Ursula, the 20th typhoon to enter the country. 2020 has just started. Yet, we are reminded abruptly and should be painfully…
Wishing our readers and kababayan a peaceful and resilient 2020, amid a vast array of climate and biodiversity challenges confronting us and the rest of humanity. Northern Cebu and other provinces hit by Typhoon Ursula, the 21st…
Are you among those who instinctly pray for who ever is in the ambulance speeding off before your eyes and hope that he or she will survive? Actually, we are no different from those who are on…
Is it possible to surprise ourselves with a plastics-free observance of All Saint’s Day tomorrow and All Soul’s Day (Undas) on Saturday? It is heart-breaking to see cemeteries transformed into a “wasteland.” Still vivid in my mind…
In this era of extreme weather aberration, when heat wave, drought, wildfire, typhoon and storm surges are becoming frequent and intense, our trees, the principal source of humans and non-human’s water, fresh air to breathe, and absorber…
October is celebrated as the Local Government Month, with this year marking the 28th anniversary of the signing of RA 7160, the “revolutionary” Local Government Code of 1991. The Code is meant to make real the principle…
One of the most compelling speeches of all time, was that made by Greta Thunberg, the 16 year old activist from Sweden, on September 23, before world leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.…
My sister shared video clips of young and adults alike frolicking in flooded areas in Cebu City last Sunday, the 1st day of September. There was fun in the air. No one seemed concerned about drowning, contracting…
I have a friend working in a coastal community whose heart bleeds every time he sees the dire poverty of the residents. They are so poor they would not know where the next food will be coming…
We were stunned by a sad news last Monday. Former Environment Secretary Gina Lopez, the fierce eco-warrior who has the purest of love for Mother Nature and compassion for the most vulnerable of our people, passed on.…
It is not everyday that one, not in the public sector, witnesses the changing of guards in one of the most important cabinet portfolio – the Department of Agriculture. This columnist is honored to be invited during…
The Filipino ocean has been described as an epicenter of marine biodiversity, with the richest concentration of marine life on the entire planet. However, it is beset with human-made pressures such as overfishing and destruction of marine…
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