COPENHAGEN — Being a climate scientist these days is not for the faint of heart.
Arguably no other area of research yields a sharper contrast between a steady stream of “eureka!” moments, and the sometimes terrifying implications of those discoveries for the future of the planet.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—The warnings had been given before—that low-lying areas, especially in archipelagos like the Philippines, are at risk of being swamped by rising levels of seawater as a result of global warming. This week, though, as 2,000 scientists gathered for a climate-change conference, the warnings have taken on a more urgent tone, as they focused [...]

IN order to achieve mass-poverty reduction globally, a new study released by the World Bank underscored the need not only for initiative and good work ethics on the part of the poor, but also ample economic opportunities for the poor created by governments.
The World Bank study, titled “Moving out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom [...]

MANILA — An attempt to map the potential effects of climate change across South-East Asia has found Cambodia to be unexpectedly vulnerable to disasters.
The map, which considers the region’s risk of exposure to climate hazards as well as its ability to adapt to such threats, found that Cambodia’s poor ability to deal with disasters dwarfs [...]

BEYOND bad storms, drought and overall inclement weather, climate change will become a major threat to a country’s development as it will make the poor suffer even more, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).
In his online column Statistically Speaking, titled “Climate Change–Will the Poor Suffer More?”, NSCB Secretary- General Romulo Virola said statistics [...]

National and local government executives as well as top national and local government planners are set to chart of the course of both the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras and the Western Visayas regions amid repeated disasters that devastated them.
That important task will take place during the Western Visayas Regional Planning Summit 2009 that is being jointly organized [...]