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Artist Joel Deal Stockdill, left, works on a blue whale art piece made from discarded single-use plastic at Crissy Field Friday, Oct. 12, 2018, in San Francisco. Artists are putting the finishing touches on an 82-foot-long (24-meter-long) blue whale made from discarded plastic that will be in display near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge to raise awareness about ocean pollution. The Monterey Bay Aquarium said Friday a blue whale can weigh about 300,000 pounds, about the amount of plastic that ends up in the ocean every nine minutes. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg/ MANILA BULLETIN)

Life-sized plastic whale to raise ocean pollution awareness

By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Artists are putting the finishing touches on an 82-foot-long (24-meter-long) blue whale made from discarded plastic that…

13 Oct 2018 - 9:58 am
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Life-like display of Philippine reef in a California museum. (Photo sourtesy of California Academy of Sciences / MANILA BULLETIN)

Verde Island reefs show resilience to climate change

By Ellalyn De Vera-Ruiz In the face of climate change, the reefs of Verde Island, situated in the middle of the “center of the center…

12 Oct 2018 - 1:11 pm
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Recent events such as the disastrous flooding caused by Hurricane Florence in the US showed that "the world isn't ready for these challenges", the UN's special water representative Henk Ovink said. (AFP / Alex Edelman / MANILA BULLETIN)

Climate action urgent, says world’s only ‘water ambassador’

By Agence France-Presse Countries must work urgently to solve water issues caused by climate change, a Dutch official billed as the world's only "water ambassador"…

09 Oct 2018 - 9:28 am
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners of the Nobel Economics Prize in Stockholm (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN)

US ‘green growth’ duo win Nobel Economics Prize

By Agence France-Presse US economists William Nordhaus and Paul Romer on Monday shared the 2018 Nobel Economics Prize for constructing "green growth" models that show…

08 Oct 2018 - 9:10 pm
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The 195-nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is vetting a major report that traces pathways for limiting global warming (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN)

S. Arabia backs down from blocking UN climate report — sources

By Agence France-Presse Oil giant Saudi Arabia backed down at the last minute Saturday from obstructing the adoption of a major report by the UN's…

07 Oct 2018 - 8:04 am
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A banner reads "Hambi for Bambi" as thousands of demonstrators gather to celebrate the suspension of the planned razing of the forest in what they dubbed the region's "biggest-ever anti-coal rally" (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN)

‘Hambi stays!’: Thousands join German forest demo in anti-coal battle

By Agence France-Presse Thousands of anti-coal demonstrators descended on Germany's Hambach forest Saturday, celebrating an unexpected court victory that suspended an energy company's planned razing…