The Philippines’ local palay (unhusked rice) production may hit as high as 20.4 million metric tons (MMT) this year, the ...

Laurel said this forecast is credited to the directive of President  Marcos to restore the agency’s budget for rice ...

The Department of Agriculture is expected to declare a food security emergency on rice on January 22 amid surging prices of ...

Meanwhile, the global sea surface temperature in 2024 also reached a record high of 20.87 C, making it the warmest year for ocean waters in modern observational history, according to the Copernicus ...

This La Niña event is expected to be weak and its time of emergence may not have the impact it would otherwise have had, ...

In 2023, the arrival of El Niño — a natural phenomenon that is known to boost global temperatures ... in November — ...

Scientists warn the record should act as a ‘reality check’ as we get ‘dangerously close’ to reaching 1.5C of global warming ...

Climate change is such a big issue that we are increasingly more aware of its effect on global weather and the increasing ...

Cambodia has been wracked by El Niño, resulting in less precipitation, greater depletion of soil moisture, and an increase in pesticide resistance pests. Such a climate change phenomenon has damaged ...

Consecutive typhoons made deadlier by climate change also hit the Philippines late last year ... that of naturally occurring climate phenomenon like El Niño in fueling extreme events, including ...

MANILA, Philippines — The year 2024 was a difficult ... Kanlaon in December threatened the sugarcane industry even as the El Niño phenomenon delayed harvests. And now there’s the looming ...