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Yes, mined-out areas can still be rehabilitated through the government’s Greening mined-out areas in the Philippines (GMAP) program that adopted Bioremediation, the use of live microbes and plants as biological solutions to clean up and rehabilitate stressed environment such as mined out or mine tailing areas.

The GMAP program, lead by Dr. Nelly Aggangan, from the University of the Philippines, Los Banos, successfully developed microbial-based protocol that can effectively rehabilitate unproductive mine tailing areas in the Philippines, converting barren lands into mini forests.  

Mined-out areas are devoid of plants due to many biotic and abiotic factors and one of them is the presence of residual heavy metals in the mining wastes. 

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“Our survey results indicate that almost 70% of our respondents prefer to telecommute over physical reporting for work after the lifting of the national public health emergency,” Dr. Rowena Paz L. Gelvezon, professor at the University of the Philippines-Visayas and project leader of Telecommuting Preferences of Government Workers in the Philippines (TeleWork@PH) research, said.

Gelvezon added that this may indicate an evolving concept on how work is viewed, that is, work is something that people do, not someplace that people go to; that work need not be performed in a specific physical work site nor performed in mandated work hours, but work is something that can be accomplished anywhere and anytime.

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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) funded two behavioral studies for treating addiction and depression in the newly renovated animal laboratory facility at the National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines (UP) Manila.  The facility was presented to DOST after a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony on January 27, 2023. 

DOST Secretary Renato U. Solidum Jr., Undersecretary for R&D Leah J. Buendia, and UP Manila Chancellor Dr. Carmencita Padilla led the brief ceremony and quick tour inside the facility. It will house the project entitled, “Cessation of Toluene (Rugby) Addiction in Adolescents: Using a Rodent Model” to test novel pharmacological and behavioral treatments for overcoming toluene craving. 

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The Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) and the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), both attached agencies of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen research collaboration on the applications of nuclear science and technology in the fields of volcanology and seismology. 

The ceremonial signing, held on January 25, 2023, at the DOST-PHIVOLCS Auditorium in Quezon City, signals the joint initiatives of the two DOST agencies to harmonize their efforts to address disaster risk reduction and management. This is aligned with the current administration’s thrust to pursue the OneDOST4U advocacy to better improve delivery of public service.

Under the MoU, the DOST-PNRI and DOST-PHIVOLCS will focus and venture together on projects related to the fields of geochemistry, isotopic techniques, volcanism, active faults, geothermal, and volcano-hydrothermal.