CEBU, Philippines - I am writing this simple prognosis in my capacity as a concerned private citizen in order to provide some insights on the issue of balling and transplanting of Benguet Pine ...

BAGUIO CITY—A local court dismissed an environmental lawsuit that stopped the earth balling of at least 182 pine and alnus trees by a shopping mall here for an expansion project, ending for now a ...

MISIMPRESSION: One gets the impression from criticisms of SM City Baguio that hundreds of trees will be cut down just to make room for a pay parking building beside the SM mall in the Pines City. As ...

The genera Betula (birches) and Alnus (alders) are keystone components of temperate and boreal ecosystems across the Northern Hemisphere. Genetic diversity within and among their populations underpins ...

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – If SM mall thought it could assuage fears of protesters by permitting them to inspect the site of its expansion where trees were earth-balled, they were wrong. A group of ...

BAGUIO CITY—Shopping mall giant, SM, is planting 330 new trees to replace 11 trees that had been sick since April. The tree planting is one of the conditions set by the Department of Environment and ...

MANILA, Philippines – The controversial plan of SM Baguio to transplant 182 trees is bound to fail and will be harmful to Baguio in the long run, experts said. “Pollutants are concentrated in the area ...