PAGADIAN CITY, ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR, Philippines — Environment authorities have taken into custody an ailing Philippine serpent eagle (Spilornis holospilus) after residents rescued the raptor when it repeatedly plummeted to the ground in Barangay Manil of Leon B. Postigo town in Zamboanga del Norte on Wednesday, October 7. Community Environment and Natural Resources Officer (CENRO) Maribel

KORONADAL CITY, SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines — An electric cooperative in Mindanao has warned consumers of higher power rates possibly due to the El Niño phenomenon, which could further strain power supplies now in precarious levels brought by the shutdown of some major power plants in the island. Raffee Edsel Epistola, South Cotabato I Electric Cooperative (SOCOTECO-I)