Author: Agnes Alpuerto

New Zealand declared a climate emergency on Wednesday, and committed to a carbon-neutral government by 2025. The announcement is a significant move in the midst of a health crisis and natural disasters affecting the world. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the important declaration was based on the findings made by Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. The study reveals that to avoid a more than 1.5 degree Celsius rise in global warming, emissions would need to be reach zero by around 2050. A motion tabled in parliament recognized the devastating impact that volatile and extreme weather will have…

It was a happy day for Kaavan, an overweight 36-year-old bull elephant from Pakistan, as he landed in Cambodia early this week. He was greeted by American pop singer Cher who was instrumental to his freedom.  Kaavan became known as the “world’s loneliest elephant” after his partner Saheli, who lived with him, died in 2012. He has spent 35 years in shackles at Islamabad’s Marghazar Zoo, a run-down institution that served as his home until a global uproar from animal rights groups prompted a petition for him to be moved from the zoo. His cause was magnified when Cher…

Singapore on Wednesday gave Eat Just Inc., a US-based meat substitute maker, to roll its cultured meat product to the Singapore market.

A video advertisement from Nike Japan highlighting racism and bullying has caused a stir on social media. The ad immediately prompted sharp online responses, including calls to boycott the company. The new video uploaded on Nike Japan YouTube channel, titled “Keep Moving: Yourself, the Future” shows three teenage girls of mixed or non-Japanese heritage bullied at school before finding confidence through football. The Japanese-language video has already amassed more than 10 million views on YouTube and got 49k dislikes as of this writing. In one scene, a group of girls surrounding a classmate whose father is black and touching her…

Remember when letter later – the overhyped ‘movement’ of sending yourself a letter that would turn up in your inbox in the year or date of your choosing – was a huge thing? We all wanted to try it: to send our future selves a heartfelt letter to serve as either a memento of the life we lived or a reminder of the life we wanted to live. The words that contained our aspirations and frustrations we wanted our future selves to know. Well, a truly creative and well-thought ‘time capsule’ interview by Vanity Fair just given American singer-songwriter a…

A whopping 15.3 million concurrent players joined forces in the biggest and wildest event ever to fight back Fortnite’s Galactus while more than 3.4 million cheered on YouTube and Twitch. But what was it really about? First and foremost, Marvel and Fortnite teamed up in the 4th season of the game and create the Fortnite’s Galactus event. The Galactus event of Fortnite was a special, one-time-only event where players battle the Galactus. In the Galactus invasion, players were driving their own Battle Bus full of explosives while doing a Star Wars-like trench run with AC/DC blaring in the background. The…

Canadian star Ellen Page, who rose to fame as lead in teen pregnancy comedy film Juno, has announced he is a transgender whose name is Elliot. “Hi friends,” Ellen Page wrote on a variety of social media platforms on Tuesday. “I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot.” “I feel lucky to be writing this. To be here. To have arrived at this place in my life. I feel overwhelming gratitude for the incredible people who have supported me along this journey. I can’t begin to express how remarkable…