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                    [Title] => Leaning tree in UPLB a ‘yardstick’ of typhoon strength
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A leaning tree at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) complex here has become a yardstick for the strength of a typhoon passing through this university town.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-06 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1724775 [AuthorName] => Rudy Fernandez [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1302721 [Title] => Vietnam sends blogger to prison for critical posts [Summary] =>

A Vietnamese court on Wednesday sentenced a dissident blogger to 15 months in prison for posting online criticism of the government, the latest case in an intensifying crackdown against dissent in the one-party communist country.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-19 15:17:28 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/845/kp7no.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 731632 [Title] => UP Los Baños' leaning dao tree survives 'Pedring' [Summary] =>

For the nth time, the leaning dao tree at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) campus has survived another typhoon.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1724775 [AuthorName] => Rudy Fernandez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 714222 [Title] => Tree of the month (PART 1) DAO [Summary] =>

Dao is a native tree that reaches 40 meters high and 90 centimeters in diameter at breast height.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 593235 [Title] => Leaning UPLB tree survives Basyang [Summary] =>

As in the past few years when killer typhoons lashed the University of the Philippines Los Baños complex here, the leaning UPLB dao tree has survived Basyang, too.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 399065 [Title] => Leaning tree now part of UP heritage [Summary] =>

A leaning dao tree at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) campus has been declared a “Heritage Tree” along with 11 others in the sprawling complex.

[DatePublished] => 2008-09-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 361762 [Title] => ‘Condemned’ leaning dao tree at UPLB survives ‘Milenyo’ [Summary] => If only a tree could talk — or laugh.

That’s what a dao tree at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) campus must be doing now.

The reason: It survived deadly typhoon "Milenyo," which uprooted, felled or dismembered many much younger trees in the sprawling UPLB complex last Sept. 28.

The leaning dao tree, about a century-old, in front of the UPLB Student Union building had been recommended for cutting as early as two years ago.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 346417 [Title] => Environmentalist cites need to protect our seas [Summary] => Each time we go diving and see the marvel of our oceans we cannot help but wonder why our country is so poor and poverty is on the rise. Oceans make up 71 percent of the earth. Oceans are home to over 97 percent of all life forms.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096447 [AuthorName] => Antonio M. Claparols [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 338983 [Title] => 25-year lease arrangement for idle coastal areas bucked [Summary] => Fisherfolk organizations are pressing the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to scrap an administrative order (DAO) granting 25-year lease rights to private investors and corporations in developing idle and degraded coastal areas.

The fisherfolk groups under the umbrella organization of a fishery non-government association, Tambuyog Development Center (TDC), is being supported by the National Agriculture and Fisheries Council (NAFC), an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 326291 [Title] => Carpio’s dissent vs Mining Act [Summary] => Is all mining, like logging, damaging? Or can it run, like forestry, in a way that also protects and restores the earth?
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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