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                    [Title] => Sierra Madre reforestation project extended
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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has extended for another year its reforestation program on the Sierra Madre mountain range.

[DatePublished] => 2016-02-04 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1549370 [Title] => SC urged to consider science in GMO ruling [Summary] =>

An organization at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños, Laguna has urged the Supreme Court (SC) to consider more scientific evidence in tackling issues involving genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

[DatePublished] => 2016-02-03 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804764 [AuthorName] => Janvic Mateo [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1547942 [Title] => PCA adopts new coconut propagation technology [Summary] =>

The Philippine Coconut Authority is adopting the coconut somatic embryogenesis technology (Cset), an alternative technique for mass propagation of coconut, to reinvigorate the industry.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-30 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1664250 [AuthorName] => Rainier Allan Ronda [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/business/agriculture/20160131/Buko-Production.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1545570 [Title] => GM crops crucial to Philippines agri security [Summary] =>

Ever heard of “pesticide cocktails”?

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-23 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1724775 [AuthorName] => Rudy Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1543455 [Title] => DENR, UP to launch training program on green governance [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2016-01-16 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1685860 [AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1542930 [Title] => Amusement industry icon [Summary] =>

Following our series on our year-end special on how various industries in the Philippines fared for 2015 and their forecasts for 2016 as shared by the presidents of the business organizations under whose umbrella these industries fall, allow me to introduce to you another Filipino business mover, a pillar of the amusement industry in the country.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-15 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133766 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1541018 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Science and the environment [Summary] =>

If certain environmental warriors were active several decades ago, the so-called miracle rice might never have been developed at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, Laguna. Instead in 1969, the IRRI received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding for seven years of interdisciplinary collaboration among Asian and Western scientists to achieve “radical, rapid advances in rice culture” and consequently easing global hunger.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-09 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/opinion/20160110/startoon.gif ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1540338 [Title] => UP students slam SC on Bt talong [Summary] =>

Agricultural biotechnology students of the University of the Philippines in Los Baños, Laguna (UPLB) joined the science and agricultural communities yesterday in criticizing the recent Supreme Court (SC) ruling that banned the field testing of genetically modified (GM) eggplants.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-07 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804764 [AuthorName] => Janvic Mateo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20160108/Eggplant-3.jpg ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1539217 [Title] => Ex-convict nabbed for rape-slay [Summary] =>

An ex-convict tagged in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl here in 2014 was arrested in Los Baños City on Sunday.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-04 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1286941 [AuthorName] => Ed Amoroso [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1538202 [Title] => Fear of science [Summary] =>

 Last Wednesday, I took up the banning of Bt talong or as it may seem from the court decision, any attempt at genetic engineering.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-31 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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