INQUIRER.NET executive editor Leo Magno visits The Field Museum for a close encounter with “Sue,” the world’s most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Sue was named after Sue Hendrickson, the American paleontologist who discovered the skeleton.
By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net
THE NATIONAL Water Resources Board (NWRB), under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) have started a photo contest that aims to build awareness on saving the country’s water resources, as well as highlight various water sanitation issues.
The agencies are also being assisted by the private sector-led Philippine Water Partnership in promoting the competition.
The “Water is Life” photo contest offers cash prizes of up to P25,000 for the top winner. In a statement, Environment Secretary Lito Atienza said the competition aims to stress the importance of water to Filipinos and make them realize that it is also their duty to ensure its availability.
By Yolanda Sotelo-Fuertes
Inquirer Northern Luzon Bureau
DAGUPAN CITY–Scientists have found a rare species of mangrove in what they described as a unique environmental setting in Masinloc, Zambales.
“It’s a hybrid mangrove called Rhizophora x lamarckii produced by ‘bakauan lalaki’ (Rhizophora apiculata) and ‘bakauan bato’ (Rhyzophora stylosa),” Severino Salmo, a mangrove researcher, told the Inquirer.
Salmo, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in marine science at the University of Queensland in Australia, said the species was so rare that there was only one tree found on Panay Island in Eastern Visayas.
