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Members of the Camarines Norte Pili Growers and Processors Association (CNPGPA) learn how to make handicraft items from the pili shell (left) and extract oil from the pili nut (right) in seminar workshops held last year and organized by the Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute.

The training courses were part of the project “Technology transfer on community-based pili nut and pili by-products processing and marketing in Camarines Norte” which focused on optimizing the use of pili resources in the province by developing, enhancing, and promoting techno packages on pili by-products from kernels, pulp, shells, and resins.

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Journalists from the various provinces in Samar Island recently sharpened their writing and broadcasting skills even more by adding science-based dimensions in their reportage.

Particularly, the Samar Island scribes learned how to consider the science behind the factors affecting reading and listening.

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Is Calbayog City safe from tsunami because it does not face the Pacific Ocean and there are islands that can block the upsurge?

The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DOST-PHIVOLCS) resident geologist Jeffrey S. Perez says “no”, debunking the belief that this city in Western Samar is free from the effects of any seismic activity within and outside the province, especially tsunami.