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Climate & Conservation
News and stories about the greatest challenge of our time, and the Filipinos fighting to conserve the natural world.
Despite $121 million in backing, is there enough local support to get the project off the ground?
A 20-hectare wastewater lagoon collapsed into North Bais Bay releasing an estimated 255,000 cubic meters of molasses-based wastewater.
Marine biologist Kent Carpenter spent more than 50 years studying ocean life in the Philippines. He was killed in his home in Negros Occidental.
A suspected 234 containers of e-waste and one container of plastic waste have been dumped in Subic since March 2025.
Available to all, this report highlights a community-led approach to waste management built around local knowledge.
First Light's impact campaign is heading to New York Climate Week in September 2026 to broaden the call to protect a threatened conservation site.
As one of the world's most climate-vulnerable nations, the Philippines helped push for the ICJ ruling. But its own updated climate targets are still unsubmitted.
Water—the very thing that makes life possible on Earth—is in danger of running out. We asked a water expert how we got here, and what we can still do to save it.
When we lose an environmental and human rights defender, we lose a version of a better world—one that could have only been possible with them in it.
Sustainability and environment experts weigh in on the costs and challenges of replanting trees.
'Lost species' have been rediscovered in the Philippines—including one that hasn't been seen in 130 years.
Billions in foreign investment are flowing into the president's home province. Fishing communities say the transition is happening without them.