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	<title>Iloilo River</title>
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	<description>Renewing the Public Realm</description>
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		<title>Bioregional planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PLANNING offices are regular features of provinces, cities and municipalities in the Philippines. These offices are mandated to chart the growth of their respective local governments and at the same time provide contingencies during crisis. But there are development issues that straddle across boundaries, giving birth to regional planning to effectively address concerns that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iloilo River: City’s biggest septic tank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ONE HUNDRED FORTY of the total 180 barangays in Iloilo City have virtually made the once beautiful and majestic Iloilo River as giant septic tank.
This is the reason why the river at the heart of the metropolis is dying, said City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) chief, Engr. Noel Hechanova.

Compounding the pollution problem is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stand up for sustainability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SUSTAINABLE development is a 21st-century buzzword that even crafty politicians, without batting an eyelash, have learned to utter. What does it mean and what does it require from us, stakeholders of this ailing planet?
It is development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iloiloriver.com/stand-up-for-sustainability.html</link>
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		<title>Climate change: Tropical species at risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; Global warming is driving tropical plant and animal species to higher altitudes, potentially leaving lowland rainforest with nothing to take their place, ecologists argue in this week&#8217;s issue of Science.
In a rare study on the impact of global warming in the tropics, University of Connecticut ecologist Robert Colwell and colleagues worked their way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iloiloriver.com/climate-change-tropical-species-at-risk.html</link>
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		<title>Iloilo River &#8216;dying&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE Iloilo River is dying, said an official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 6.
The discharges from commercial establishments, hotels, hospitals and households are slowly killing the river, revealed Samson Guillergan of the DENR-6’s Pollution Control Division.

Oxygen in the river is depleting because of the effluents, reducing the viability of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red List: Half of mammals &#8216;in decline&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BARCELONA &#8212; Half the world&#8217;s mammals are declining in population and more than a third probably face extinction, said an update Monday of the &#8220;Red List,&#8221; the most respected inventory of biodiversity.
A comprehensive survey of mammals included in the annual report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which covers more than 44,000 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iloiloriver.com/red-list-half-of-mammals-in-decline.html</link>
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		<title>Pollution killing world’s coral reefs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CANCUN, Mexico. — Dainty blue fish dart around coral shaped like moose antlers near the Mexican resort of Cancun, but sickly brown spots are appearing where pollution threatens one of the world’s largest reefs.
Parts of the reef, nestled in turquoise waters, have died and algae – which feed on sewage residues flowing out of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iloiloriver.com/pollution-killing-world%e2%80%99s-coral-reefs.html</link>
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		<title>Philippines facing fish shortage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IF within five to ten years from now you won&#8217;t see fish anymore in your plate or restaurant menus, don&#8217;t be surprised. Blame the current surging population for that.
Currently, the Philippines is home to almost 90 million people. &#8220;About 62 percent of the population lives in the coastal zone,&#8221; says the Philippine Environment Monitor published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coral Reefs: Medicine cabinets for the 21st century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CORAL reefs could be the sources of many new medicines in the 21st century. &#8220;Marine sources could be the major source of drugs in the coming years,&#8221; says Dr. William Fenical, director for marine biotechnology and biomedicine at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.
&#8220;Many coral reef species produce chemicals like histamines and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iloiloriver.com/coral-reefs-medicine-cabinets-for-the-21st-century.html</link>
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		<title>Philippines fast losing its forests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE Philippines has often been an example for the &#8220;worst-case-scenario&#8221; in environmental degradation. Some scientists have even concluded that environmental efforts should be put elsewhere, claiming the Philippines is a lost cause.
John Terborgh, in his book, Requiem for Nature, opines that the &#8220;overpopulated Philippines&#8221; is &#8220;already beyond the point of no return.&#8221;
The United Nations demographers [...]]]></description>
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