Environmental advocates, community leaders, and academic stakeholders recently gathered in a Greenhouse Gas Accounting Seminar-Workshop to spark conversations on the perils of climate change and develop a unified approach to protect the planet. Titled Laudato Sí and the Urgency of Climate Action,...
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) warned of possible flooding in low-lying communities along the Tullahan River as La Mesa Dam in Quezon City neared its spilling level on Monday, Aug. 10. PAGASA said in its Hydrological Dam Situationer No. 1...
The Philippine Coast Guard rescued three stranded fish cage caretakers in the sea of Barangay Damortis, Rosario, La Union on Saturday, Aug. 8. The Coast Guard Sub-Station (CGSS) Santo Tomas received a distress report from the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO) at...
The water level of La Mesa Dam in Quezon City is nearing its spilling level, with areas in Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, and Valenzuela (Camanava) potentially affected if the dam spills, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Saturday night,...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union — At least one person was reported dead while more than 26,000 individuals were affected by flooding, landslides, and other incidents in La Union due to the combined effects of the southwest monsoon and tropical cyclones Luis and Maymay. The provincial...
New York City will always mean different things for a returning, visiting Filipino. My last time in Manhattan was two years ago, but that was in early March, for work, during a cold late-winter spell. This time it was glorious summer in late July, and for me, New York is primarily about the...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – This province has recorded P11 million in damage to agriculture due to the combined effects of the southwest monsoon and tropical cyclones Luis and Maymay. The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO), in its 5 p.m. situational report on...
Magnolia might have picked up a huge statement win against Barangay Ginebra in their last game — a victory that could spark a turnaround for the Hotshots after a rough start in the PBA Season 50 Governors’ Cup. But head coach LA Tenorio is under no illusion that things would come easy now that...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Two cooks were killed and another survived a landslide that buried a restaurant due to heavy rains from tropical cyclone Maymay in Barangay Shilan here on Thursday morning, Aug. 6. The landslide occurred at around 8 a.m. Rescuers conducted retrieval operations and first...
MALASIQUI, Pangasinan – A total of 1,191 families in various localities of La Union have evacuated due to the effects of tropical storm Maymay, low-pressure area (Luis), and the enhanced southwest monsoon as of 5 a.m. Thursday. Based on the situational report by the La Union Provincial Disaster...
BACOLOD CITY – A 16-year-old Grade 11 student was allegedly mauled by three students and their 26-year-old companion outside a public high school in Barangay Robles, La Castellana, Negros Occidental. Police Major Romulo Gepilango V, La Castellana police chief, said the incident occurred on July...
Police are searching for an official of the Poro Point Management Corp., subsidiary of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority, who went missing during a routine morning walk on Friday, July 31. Nicky A. Oller, 59, PPMC chairman, left his house in Barangay Poblacion, Tubao, La Union at 5:30...
