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Today, environmental problems in the Philippines include pollution, mining and logging, deforestation, threats to environmental activists, dynamite fishing, landslides, coastal erosion, biodiversity loss, extinction, global warming and climate change. [1][2][3] Due to the paucity of extant documents, a complete history of land use in the ...
As in other Southeast Asian countries, deforestation in the Philippines is a major environmental issue. Over the course of the 20th century, the forest cover of the country dropped from 70 percent down to 20 percent. [1] Based on an analysis of land use pattern maps and a road map an estimated 9.8 million hectares of forests were lost in the ...
Climate change is having serious impacts in the Philippines such as increased frequency and severity of natural disasters, sea level rise, extreme rainfall, resource shortages, and environmental degradation. [1] All of these impacts together have greatly affected the Philippines' agriculture, water, infrastructure, human health, and coastal ...
Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that cause climate change. Climate change mitigation actions include conserving energy and replacing fossil fuels with clean energy sources. Secondary mitigation strategies include changes to land use and removing carbon dioxide (CO 2) from ...
The ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution is a legally binding environmental agreement signed in 2002 by the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to reduce haze pollution in Southeast Asia. [1] The Agreement recognises that transboundary haze pollution which results from land and/or forest fires should be ...
e. Land degradation is a process in which the value of a biophysical or biochemical environment is affected by a combination of natural or human-induced processes acting upon the land. [1][2] It is viewed as any change or disturbance to the land perceived to be deleterious or undesirable. [3] Natural hazards are excluded as a cause; however ...
Soil contamination, soil pollution, or land pollution as a part of land degradation is caused by the presence of xenobiotic (human-made) chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment. It is typically caused by industrial activity, agricultural chemicals or improper disposal of waste .
The Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Bay City, Metro Manila. Bay City or the Manila Bay Freeport Zone is the 660-hectare (6.6 km 2) reclamation area that is split between the cities of Manila and Pasay on the north side and Parañaque on the south. [4] The original plan was to reclaim 3,000 hectares (30 km 2) of land in Manila Bay.