The world is getting warmer and natural hazards are becoming more intense, likely bringing higher economic losses in the future. Today, four major weather perils result in expected economic losses of USD 200 billion annually. With more severe weather coming, economic losses are set to rise. The study analysis finds …
SOME eight million workers are living below the poverty threshold brought about by imbalance between current daily minimum wage and rising cost of living, according to the biggest confederation of labor groups in the country. The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines-Nagkaisa (TUCP-Nagkaisa), through spokesman Alan Tanjusay, on Sunday warned …
DENR Secretary Ramon Paje is heading to New York to represent President Aquino in the formal signing of the Paris Agreement and to deliver the Philippine statement at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters on April 22. The covenant signifies the country’s commitment to curbing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas …
Authorities are reminding the people to further exercise caution against extreme heat, expecting the Philippines to experience this April twin onslaught of the dry season’s peak and the prevailing drought-driving El Nino phenomenon’s brunt. “We must prepare for such simultaneous occurrence,” said senior weather specialist Analiza Solis from the state-run …
Philippine police opened fire as a protest by thousands of rice farmers who lost their crops turned violent on Friday, killing one and wounding about a dozen, a leader of a farming group said. About 6,000 farmers blocked a portion of the main highway in North Cotabato province on the …
LONDON – Asia has the largest number of people exposed to natural disasters, but African countries are the most vulnerable to them, largely because of political instability, corruption, poverty and inequality, a new global assessment shows. India has a billion people at risk, with China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Monday it would lend $123.3 million to the Philippines to modernize water supply in the capital, Manila, to reduce the risk of shortages as demand for water rises in the megacity. The loan will allow the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System, a government-owned …
The El Niño dry climate phenomenon has, so far, caused some P1.27 billion in damages to Western Visayas’ agriculture sector. Based on data presented by the Department of Agriculture in Western Visayas (DA-6), the onset of El Niño from the latter part of 2015 up to February 2016 damaged rice …
Building constructions, unpaved roads, and emissions from motor vehicles have made pollution worse in Metro Manila. According to Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Ramon Paje, around 80 percent of air pollution in the country comes from mobile sources, while about 20-30 percent of pollutants come from area …
The Philippines Climate Change Adaptation Project (PhilCCAP), a foreign-funded program jointly implemented by several national government agencies, including the environment and agriculture departments and state weather bureau, launched its products at the Grand Ballroom of the Century Park Hotel, Manila. The products cater to different sectors and aims to vastly …
A legal challenge to the Philippines' rules on genetically modified organisms is threatening to spark a food crisis in the country and could cloud the outlook for GM technology around Asia. Government agencies are scrambling to set new regulations on GMOs by Feb. 23 after the Southeast Asian nation's top …
The tremor occurred at 4:35 p.m. with its epicenter plotted at 112 kilometers (km) northeast of Burgos town, in Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte, with a depth of 26 km, Phivolcs in its bulletin said. Another 2.3 magnitude tremor also registered at 4:44 a.m. of that same day, Jan. 31, …
The amount of sea level rise that comes from the oceans warming and expanding has been underestimated, and is likely about twice as much as previously calculated, German researchers said on Monday. The findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed US journal, suggest that increasingly …
Toxic watchdog and environmental group EcoWaste Coalition has expressed concern over the mushrooming of political posters and tarpaulins all over the country which it said is adding to the nation’s garbage and toxic woes. The uncontrolled display of tarpaulins in public places to boost the candidacy of political aspirants even …
Davao City – The prolonged El Niño phenomenon, which experts said will extend until May or even up to June this year, has already taken its toll on the palay and corn production in Davao region, the Regional Development Council in the area (RDC-11) reported. In a press briefing held …
Reflecting on the voices of people living in difficult and unjust circumstances, government stakeholders and development practitioners from around the globe, the authors propose that conducting a truly participatory, multi-stakeholder and cross-scalar contextual analysis that considers a wide range of hazards, as well as people’s capacities and aspirations, should become …
There has been progress towards malaria elimination in the last decade. In response, WHO launched the Global Technical Strategy (GTS), in which vector surveillance and control play important roles. Country experiences in the Eliminating Malaria Case Study Series were reviewed to identify success factors on the road to elimination using …
Even as the world gears up for the New Year, air pollution will play a dampener on celebrations in certain global metropolitan cities. Italy has already issued a directive prohibiting the use of fireworks on New Year. The European nation has been struggling to lower air pollution level by banning …
This report reviews the experience of Cebu City, one of the fastest growing cities in the Philippines, based on the quick assessment and case study analysis and gives some policy recommendations for the local decision makers and city officials in Cebu City as well as other developing cities in developing …
ILAGAN CITY, Isabela: In a bid to combat the effects of climate change such as flooding, a South Korean multi-million dollar irrigation water project called Pasa Dam in the northern part of Isabela is almost half-way to completion, against an extended target date in 2017. The Pasa Small Reservoir Irrigation …
Maoist rebels in the Philippines exploited the havoc unleashed by a typhoon to attack an army relief convoy on Friday, authorities said, as the death toll from the storm rose to 41. Melor, a category 3 typhoon when it made landfall in the central Philippines this week, died out in …
