A Facebook user has claimed that Mt. Leonard Kniaseff in Maco town, Davao de Oro province is the possible cause of the series of earthquakes since February 2, noting that it is the most active stratovolcano between Maco and Mabini towns.
The Davao de Oro provincial government has placed the province under a state of calamity due to the impact of a series of earthquakes since March 6, which local officials said affected more than 200,000 families.
Five earthquakes with epicenter in New Bataan were recorded by the Philippine Volcanology Institute of Volcanology (Phivolcs).
Using innovative technology, the Davao City-based Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF), which partnered with Peregrine Fund and University of the Philippines-Mindanao, has gained a deeper understanding of eagle movement patterns in the wild.
In the mountains of Eastern Mindanao, researchers have discovered two new species of soft-furred hedgehogs, known as gymnures, less than two months into 2023.
Environmental groups have opposed the local government’s plan to address Davao City’s worsening garbage problem through a more than P5-billion waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration project with the help of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
As Davao City has seen infrastructure projects booming in the past years, environmental concerns have been raised. This year, these are the issues Davaoeños should look at.
The Paglaum Ecology Network (PEN), a group composed of parishes, schools, youth groups, and non-government environmental organizations, will conduct an Interfaith Ecological Youth Congress on September 17-18 at the Parish Pastoral Center of the Redemptorists.
The waters in Davao River and its tributary Suawan River was found by authorities to be contaminated after a trailer truck carrying hazardous chemical fell 50 feet off a cliff in Barangay Suawan in Marilog District late Monday, August 1.
People living in this city’s danger zones who refuse to follow government’s preemptive evacuation order in times of disasters will soon be penalized.
