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This climate simulator shows how effective your sustainability ideas and efforts are

Tree-planting here, coastal clean up there. How exactly do these sustainability measures help in the fight against climate change?Enter En-Roads, a climate simulator legally owned and developed by Climate Interactive, with MIT Sloan as co-developers. Based on the best available science, it allows users to explore the impact of various …
By Lou Albano
• GMA News Online

Filipino artist Cian Dayrit to show three works in upcoming UK art exhibit on climate

Filipino artist Cian Dayrit is among the artists featured in the "A World of Water," an exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in the UK, which highlights the spiritual and material significance of water. Opening March 15, "A World of Water" launches the ambitious season named Can the …
By Lou Albano
• GMA News Online

PH is 10th most affected country by extreme weather events in last 30 years — Climate Risk Index 2025 

If there's one thing to learn from Germanwatch's 2025 Climate Risk Index report (CRI), it's that climate change is not a problem in the faraway future. It's already happening now, and in the Philippines, it's already a lived reality. Published on Wednesday, the CRI 2025 showed the Philippines as the …
By Lou Albano
• GMA News Online

Climate change ‘supercharged’ the parade of typhoons the Philippines experienced in November

The Philippines experienced a parade of six typhoons within a month, and according to a study by World Weather Attribution (WWA), climate change had a lot to do with the unusual weather event.Released this week, the WWA study found that climate change made the conditions that formed and fueled the …
By Lou Albano
• GMA News Online

COP29 IS DONE: The drama, one-liners and PH civil society’s take on the $300-B deal

COP29 ran into overtime, officially finishing at 5:31 a.m. on Sunday morning, with a less than desirable result.Scheduled to conclude on Friday evening, what was known as the Finance COP delivered not only a new finance goal of $300 billion by 2035 but incredible drama that kept exhausted delegates, observers, …
By Lou Albano
• GMA News Online

Amid accelerating typhoons: PH the only Southeast Asian nation in Top 10 of Climate Change Performance Index 2025

Amid the parade of typhoons that has battered the country in recent weeks, the Philippines managed to become the only Southeast Asian country to figure in the Top 10 of the Climate Change Performance Index 2025 (CCPI), launched at the side lines of the 29th United Nations Conference of Parties …
By Lou Albano
• GMA News Online

From disaster response to climate impacts: How health is being integrated in PH's climate action

At the second and final week of the 29th United Nations Conference of Parties (COP29), representatives from the Department of Health (DOH) led by Undersecretary Gloria Balboa, joined the official Philippine delegation to make a case for health in climate action.This is only the second time that the DOH joined …
By Lou Albano
• GMA News Online

At COP29, Theo James delivers a speech, helps launch Refugees for Climate Action Network

Theo James made an appearance at the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan Thursday to help launch the Refugees for Climate Action of the UNCHR.Lending his star power to the high level climate event usually attended by politicians and high-level government officials, "The White Lotus" actor made the …
By Lou Albano
• GMA News Online

PH signs host country agreement for Loss and Damage Fund Board

The Philippines has launched the operationalization of the Loss and Damage Fund, after the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) chief Ma. Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga signed the host country agreement for the board at the 29th Conference of Parties (COP) in Baku on Tuesday.“For the Philippines living with risks and …
By Lou Albano
• GMA News Online

COP29 must deliver the money, Philippine civil society organizations say

The 29th Conference of Parties, or COP29, is already underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, where world leaders are meeting and negotiating to agree on many things, chief of which is the new finance goal that will help developing countries cope with the climate crisis and support their climate action.Called the New …
By Lou Albano
• GMA News Online

How did the Philippines do in the just-concluded plastics negotiations in Canada?

The Philippines is among the 170 countries who sent a delegation to the just-concluded fourth round of negotiations for a legally binding plastics treaty in Ottawa Canada.Having concluded on Tuesday without agreement on a proposal to consider sustainable plastic production limits, Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, …
By Lou Albano
• GMA News Online

Is climate change to blame for the deadly Dubai flooding?

The rainfall that caused at least 20 deaths in Oman and four in Dubai last week was made 10-40% more intense by climate change, according to a rapid study by a group of international climate scientists from the World Weather Attribution Group (WWA).Rains usually occur in the Arabian Peninsula during …
By Lou Albano
• GMA News Online

READ: 2x savings to boost your finances

At first glance, Php200 might seem like a modest sum, just a small fraction of your monthly paycheck. Yet, as the saying goes, "Little drops of water make a mighty ocean." Imagine redirecting that same Php200 towards a significant goal – your savings. This perspective aligns perfectly with the Home …
By Krizelle Ching
• GMA News Online

READ: Give your kids extra protection against COVID-19

Last May 2021, 15-year-old Alwin and his entire family tested positive for COVID-19, including his 8-year-old and 1-year-old siblings. His mom, Icel, was beside herself with worry. “Ako po at yung asawa ko pareho po kaming may symptoms. Buti na lang po yung tatlong anak ko asymptomatic silang lahat.” Icel …
By Krizelle Ching
• GMA News Online

GAME REVIEW: ‘Child of Light' is a soaring tale of childhood

Few games have sought to explore, let alone express the quiet melancholy that presides over one of life’s most pivotal transformations. But this is exactly what “Child of Light”, a side-scrolling RPG from “Assassin’s Creed” developer Ubisoft Montreal, accomplishes. “Child of Light” embodies this most intimate and delicate of sorrows, …
By Michael Logarta
• GMA News Online

READ: Build your international career today

Emjee, a nurse from the Philippines, is living her childhood dream. She works as a Community Nurse for the Holland Park National Health Service (NHS) District Nursing Team in the United Kingdom. In between her visits to patients, she gets to walk around the community and see the beautiful sights …
By Krizelle Ching
• GMA News Online

WATCH: Sarah G’s SUPREME cooking discovery

Ah, married life! Any married person will tell that it’s normal to wonder whether you're doing things right. Newlyweds might experience this a little more than others. For the newly married Sarah Geronimo, her moments of uncertainties come from cooking. As a wife, Sarah wants her husband to enjoy the …
By Krizelle Ching
• GMA News Online

LOOK: Team Bolzico shares their best parenting resource

A universal guidebook on parenting does not exist, but the collective advice from parents and medical experts is the next best thing. For first-time mom and dad Solenn and Nico Bolzico, it’s exactly what they needed when little Thylane Katana came into their life. It takes great teamwork to raise …
By Krizelle Ching
• GMA News Online

Heart Evangelista talks to one-legged cancer patient who walked from Masinag to checkpoint to get to PGH

Cynthia Espiritu, who posted her experience on Facebook, couldn't contain her joy when the Kapuso actress and style icon talked to her via Messenger video chat on Thursday.
By Angelica Y. Yang
• GMA News Online