Timber harvesting in natural forests in the Philippines was banned indefinitely this month in a presidential order to prevent the destructive flooding and landslides linked to logging. The ban came ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has been making great strides in combating illegal logging, with more than 1 million hectares of affected areas reforested in the past four years, a state ...

While Typhoon Sendong (international name: Washi) flood victims were trying to cope with the massive scale of the death and destruction brought by the calamity, another series of flash floods and ...