The lives and careers of the Filipino Ilustrados in Madrid in the last two decades of the 19th century are well known. Figures such as Dr José Rizal, General Antonio Luna, Juan Luna, and Marcelo H. del Pilar are familiar to many Filipinos. However, the career of Dr. Francisco Tongio Liongson is less so. Like General Luna, Liongson trained as a scientist at the Universidad Central de Madrid, where he earned his doctorate, and pursued postdoctoral training at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. As with many Filipino scientists who studied overseas, he returned home with the intention of establishing laboratories and teaching future medical students, had the revolution not occurred and Philippine independence been secured.

Nakadiskubre ang isang lokal na mamamayan ng Solana, Cagayan (Hilagang Luzon) ng pinakaunang fossil ng bungo ng Stegodon. Ang Stegodon ay isang extinct na animal na malayong kamag-anak ng mga modernong elepante. Ang natuklasang milyong-taong-gulang na bungo ay ang paksa ng isang pagsusuri ng mga paleontologist mula sa UP Diliman College of Science (UPD-CS) at University of Wollongong sa New South Wales, Australia.

The first-ever fossil skull of a Stegodon—an extinct relative of modern elephants—in the Philippines was discovered by a local in Solana, Cagayan (northern Luzon) and described by paleontologists from the UP Diliman College of Science (UPD-CS) and the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia.

Karaniwang inuugnay ang mga reforestation activity sa pagtatanim ng mga puno sa mga degraded o nasirang lugar. Gayunpaman, marami pa ring kailangang intindihin sa pagtatanim ng mga puno, mula sa mismong gawain ng pagtatanim hanggang sa sa pag-aalaga ng mga punla, na maaaring magastos at nakasalalay sa suplay ng binhi o buto. Bukod dito, kailangang tanungin din kung tama nga ba ang species ng halaman (katutubong halaman sa halip na hindi katutubo ngunit economically important) na itatanim upang pakinabangan ng biodiversity o saribuhay.

Reforestation activities typically involve planting trees in degraded areas. However, tree planting is resource-intensive, requiring labor for the planting and more importantly nurturing of the seedlings, and may be expensive and limited by seedling supply. Moreover, there is always a question of whether the right plant species (i.e., native rather than non-native economically important species) are being planted to benefit biodiversity.

The Philippines is often hit by tropical cyclones (TCs), which bring heavy rainfall that can cause floods and landslides. More often than not, the patterns of TCs repeat. For instance, if a typhoon with a certain amount of rainfall passes through Central Luzon, a similar typhoon that will pass through Central Luzon again in the future is likely to have the same amount and distribution of rainfall.