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Amidst the flurry of today's start of filing of candidacies at the Commission on Elections office located inside the Magsaysay Park, this group of Moro women hang around at the playground inside the park along with their children. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

More parks?, open spaces? seen to curb flooding in Davao City

?An environmental?ist? ?group here believed that expansion of ?parks and ?green spaces ?with?in highly urbanized cit?ies like Davao ?City would be one ?of the ?solution?s? to the flooding problem.

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Read more about the article Duterte ‘might’ ban open-pit mining in PH
President Rodrigo Duterte met with various mining companies in the country at the Heroes Hall of Malacañan Palace on August 3, 2017. (ACE MORANDANTE/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)

Duterte ‘might’ ban open-pit mining in PH

Aware of the destruction brought upon by open-pit mining to the environment, President Rodrigo Duterte is mulling to ban all open pit mining operations in the country.

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Read more about the article Miss Philippines Fire is home for ‘trash’
HOMECOMING. Miss Philippines Fire 2017 Nellza “Ella” Mortola-Bautista enjoys the warm welcome accorded to her by town mates during her homecoming in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental, last Friday, August 25. She hopes to collaborate with the local government to improve its solid waste management. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Miss Philippines Fire is home for ‘trash’

Miss Philippines-Fire 2017 Nellza Mortola-Bautista accepted the invitation of the municipal government to be its ambassadress for the environment.

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Read more about the article Davao jeeps, garbage trucks running on ‘used cooking oil’
BIODIESEL FUEL. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte and State Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Kazuyuki Nakane pose beside a public utility jeepney that uses biodiesel. The biodiesel fuel plant in Maa, Davao City was formally launched on Friday, Aug. 25. (Robby Joy D. Salveron/davaotoday.com)

Davao jeeps, garbage trucks running on ‘used cooking oil’

That cooking oil you no longer use in the kitchen could fuel vehicles and mitigate the effects of climate change.

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