San Miguel Corporation (SMC)’s recent effort to build the country’s first biodiversity offset site is nothing short of greenwashing, with SMC touting to pass off the New Manila International Airport (Aerotropolis) project as sustainable all while actively disregarding the opposition of scientists and communities to the project due to its Read more…
AGHAM Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Center for Environmental Concerns, and Brigada Kalikasan, in partnership with Southern Tagalog Serve the People Corps conducted a rapid impact assessment of the impacts of the oil spill brought by the capsized MT Princess Empress in Oriental Mindoro. Ocular observation, focus Read more…
AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People demands the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to immediately and safely release Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano. “There is no legal basis to keep them under military custody, especially after it was revealed by Jonila Read more…
AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People slams continuing reclamation and associated dredging activities from Manila Bay despite verbal pronouncements of President Bongbong Marcos Jr. to suspend reclamation projects. On September 13, Wednesday, fisherfolk group PAMALAKAYA reported that dump-and-fill activities continue in Navotas City. The fisherfolk group Read more…
Scientist group AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People expressed their solidarity with fisherfolk who protested in front of the Japanese Embassy on Saturday, August 26, against the release of nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. According to the group, Read more…
AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People demands President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to publicly release a written suspension order against reclamation projects in Manila Bay. “While we welcome the verbal suspension of all reclamation projects in Manila Bay, we continue to call on the Marcos administration to Read more…
AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People welcomes the decision of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to suspend all reclamation projects in Manila Bay, except for one [1]. We also welcome the resolution filed in the House of Representatives to probe the status of reclamation projects in the Read more…
AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People supports the cumulative impact assessment that will be conducted by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). Recently, DENR announced that it is gathering experts including physical and chemical oceanographers, fisheries experts and marine biologists, as well as engineers Read more…