MANILA (Dec. 10, 2014) — Greenpeace global chief Kumi Naidoo urged the Philippines to be part of the solution to climate change, following another typhoon which pummeled parts of the country.
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MANILA (Dec. 8, 2014)— Greenpeace global chief Kumi Naidoo said Sunday increasingly violent storms hitting the Philippines showed the world had to act on climate change, as Typhoon Hagupit barreled across the country.
September 9, 2014 —Public health and zero waste advocates will visit the Lamp Waste Management Facility (LWMF) on Sept. 10 in Taguig City to witness how discarded fluorescent lamps are safely recycled.
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 4 September) – Various groups have reiterated their call for the regulation of fish aggregating devices (FADs) in the Philippines to ensure the sustainability of the handline fishing sector, which produces large mature fresh tuna stocks sold in the domestic and foreign sashimi market.
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LUCENA CITY, Philippines (July 1, 2014) — The environment group Greenpeace and coconut farmer groups have criticized the government’s use of the toxic pesticide neonicotinoids to combat the coconut scale insect (CSI) or “cocolisap” infestation that is threatening to wipe out the country’s coconut industry.
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