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The Philippines is sometimes considered the most dangerous country for environmental activists. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] According to environmental watchdog Global Witness , at least 30 land and environmental defenders were killed in the Philippines in 2018, many of whom were in conflict with private business groups. [ 69 ]
From 2006 to 2013, the Philippines experienced a total of 75 disasters that cost the agricultural sector $3.8 billion in loss and damages. [1] Typhoon Haiyan alone cost the Philippines' agricultural sector an estimated US$724 million after causing 1.1 million tonnes of crop loss and destroying 600,000 ha of farmland. [31]
MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines has closed schools down and warned of overloading on its power grid, as authorities across Southeast Asia issued a series of health alerts for a crushing and ...
According to Philippine laws, terrorism is a crime under the Human Security Act of 2007 which describes such acts as causing "widespread and extraordinary fear and panic among the populace". The first group to be officially listed as a terrorist organization under the law was the Abu Sayyaf on September 10, 2015, by the Basilan provincial court ...
A roughly 1-meter asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines near Luzon Island at 12:39 p.m. ET, according to the European Space Agency.
(Reuters) -New U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed China's "dangerous and destabilizing actions in the South China Sea" with his Philippine counterpart on Wednesday and underscored the ...
The Pasig River in the Philippines suffers from a high level of water pollution and efforts are being made to rehabilitate it. After World War II, massive population growth, infrastructure construction, and the dispersal of economic activities to Manila's suburbs left the river neglected. The banks of the river attracted informal settlers and ...
The governor’s office did not explain why the soil was so unstable at the time of the slide, after millennia of stability. [10] Experts did agree that torrential rains lasting two weeks before the mudslide were the tipping point that precipitated the disaster.