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Beware of ‘Shark Week’: Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, misinformation and white male ‘experts’ named Mike

The Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week is the longest-running cable television series in history, filling screens with sharky content every summer since 1988. It causes one...

To fight the climate crisis, we need to stop expanding offshore drilling for oil and gas

COP27 failed. So why continue with these UN climate summits?

Climate change is an existential threat to human civilization and planetary ecosystems. Yet despite 27 UN Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings that have taken place...

Still recovering from COVID-19, US public transit tries to get back on track

U.S. commuters take approximately 10 billion trips on public transit every year. SciLine asked Kari Watkins, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the...

As the Ukraine war derails efforts to solve the climate crisis, a new one looms — the fight for peace

In his opening remarks at the COP27 meeting in Egypt, UN secretary general António Guterres put it this way: “Humanity has a choice: co-operate or perish....

Western leaders are divided over the future of relations with China

European Council president Charles Michel heads to Beijing on December 1, the latest in a procession of western leaders to seek an audience with Xi Jinping,...

Right to Adequate Food Framework bill refiled in Congress

MANILA – A Quezon City legislator recently refiled a bill that institutionalizes a framework to address the country’s problem with food security. House Bill No. 4562, or...

Quezon Memorial Circle now free of child laborers

MANILA – In celebration of National Children’s Month, the Quezon City government announced that the Quezon Memorial Circle (QMC) is now a child labor-free zone. During her...

DOST mulls entrepreneurship training for science scholars

MANILA – The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) on Sunday said it is eyeing to provide entrepreneurship training for scholars taking science, engineering and other related...