THE economic cost of the more than 400 natural and man-made disasters that hit the country last year was a staggering P26 billion, the Citizens’ Disaster Response Center (CDRC) disclosed on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
400 disasters cost PHL P26B in 2011
April 25, 2012
Phl tops 2011 UN disaster league table
January 31, 2012
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines topped the disaster league table last year with 33 major reported events, affecting 12.5 percent of the population, according to the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). Read the rest of this entry »
Yearender: Severe weather events batter Phl in 2011
December 24, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines continued to experience severe weather events in 2011 that killed thousands of people, highlighting the country’s increasing vulnerability to the effects of climate change and environmental degradation. Read the rest of this entry »
18 disaster-proneareas identified
December 23, 2011
Antipolo City, Agusan, Quezon, Albay may also be hit by massive floods
THE tragedy that hit the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan in Northern Mindanao may also happen in 18 other areas tagged by the Climate Change Congress of the PhilIPPINES (CCCP) AS PRONE TO floods and landslides, it was learned on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Gov’t urged to complete flood risk maps
November 9, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Loren Legarda yesterday urged the government to immediately complete the mapping of areas vulnerable to flooding to prevent the occurrence of floods similar to Bangkok’s. Read the rest of this entry »
Disasters: Seven steps to a safer Philippines
October 28, 2011
REPUBLIC SERVICE
Ricardo Saludo
The disaster movie 2012 used special effects to depict imaginary scenes of skyscraping cities lacerated by earthquakes and engulfed by rising seas and erupting lava. In her lecture a week ago, titled “2012 (Not the Movie): A Practical Guide to Disaster Risk and Preparedness,” Manila Observatory executive director Maria Antonia Yulo Loyzaga needed no animation to portray the dangers of calamity. Read the rest of this entry »
Disasters put 50M school kids in danger
October 20, 2011
Criss-crossed by active faults and located in the “bulls-eye” of storms, the Philippines is the world’s third “riskiest” country and is more vulnerable to rising sea-levels, subsiding land and warming temperatures than Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Read the rest of this entry »
PH: World’s 3rd most vulnerable to disaster
October 12, 2011
THE Philippines ranked third out of 173 countries in the world considered as most vulnerable to disaster risks and natural hazards of the United Nations’ (UN) World Risk Index this despite existing laws aimed at disaster mitigation and climate risk. Read the rest of this entry »
Disasters: Straight road to a sunken land
October 10, 2011
Last of two parts
TUWID na Daan, Lunod na Bayan.
That could well be the sad commentary on the past year, when urgent flood control projects were delayed by rebid-ding, denying flood-prone areas of Luzon the needed repairs on dikes, seawalls, riverbank protection, and other rehabilitation work to safeguard lives and livelihoods in the event of more mega-storms like the Ondoy and Pepeng catastrophes which severely damaged such facilities. Read the rest of this entry »
Majority of LGUs now “proactive” in disaster-preparedness
September 16, 2011
CEBU, Philippines – Majority of local government units (LGUs) in Central Visayas are now proactive in implementing measures to mitigate the effects of disasters such as activating their own local disaster risk reduction management councils down to the barangay level. Read the rest of this entry »
