COVER STORY

PH PANDEMIC WORSENS

The Philippine pandemic situation has turned for the worse—in fact, the worst since COVID-19 entered the archipelago in February 2020.  The country as of Aug. 25, 2021, had 1.883 million cases, with 1.725 million recovered […]

Book Review

OPENING MINDS

By Selma Wassermann Hardcover, 98 pages, 2021. Rowman & Littlefield “Learning to think intelligently, like learning to derive meaning from the written word, requires experience and practice.”  That’s why parents who want their children to […]

COVER STORY

VACCINES

Among  the 17 regions in the Philippines, Metro Manila will be the first to achieve herd immunity. This year.   So confident is BenHur Abalos, the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman, has vowed that […]

Book Review

MOVING TO HIGHER GROUND

By John Englander Hardcover, 223 pages, 2021. Girl Friday Productions “Even if we could immediately stop all carbon dioxide emissions and the warming, the excess heat stored in the sea will continue to melt the […]

COVER STORY

THE HEAT IS HERE

Hotter temperatures now a certainty in 30-50 years, if not earlier. Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C) or even 2°C will […]