Satellite images don’t lie. Once a lush and sprawling green lifeline, Sierra Madre’s forests in Dinapigue, Isabela, now bear the scars of mining and deforestation. The images tell a story of loss. A ...

Amid continuing tensions between the Philippines and China in the SCS (South China Sea), as the latter blocks Manila’s resupply missions to the BRP Sierra Madre over the disputed Second Thomas ...

Given the Philippines’ limited navy and coast guard vessels, the country is regularly confronted by encroaching Chinese maritime forces. At the centre of this geopolitical tit-for-tat is the BRP ...

A dilapidated World War II-era vessel called the Sierra Madre, run aground on a tiny ... coast guard repeatedly swarming and ramming Philippine vessels to stop them from resupplying the ship.