Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The effects of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season in the Philippines were considered some of the worst in decades. Throughout the year, a series of typhoons impacted the country, with the worst impacts coming from Typhoon Haiyan, especially in death toll, during November. The first half of the season was relatively weak compared to the other ...
Climate change is having serious impacts in the Philippines such as increased frequency and severity of natural disasters, sea level rise, extreme rainfall, resource shortages, and environmental degradation. [1] All of these impacts together have greatly affected the Philippines' agriculture, water, infrastructure, human health, and coastal ...
National-level adaptation strategies Logo of the CCC. Climate Change Commission. The Climate Change Commission (CCC) is the primary government policy-making body in the Philippines tasked with coordinating, monitoring and evaluating government initiatives to ensure that climate change is taken into account in all national, local, and sectoral development plans in order to create a climate ...
Tropical Storm Kujira near the Philippines on May 3. While in the Philippine area of responsibility, Typhoon Kujira caused some 625,709,464 worth of damage to crops and livestock in Albay, Camarines Norte, Masbate and Sorsogon. It also caused some 102 million pesos worth of damage to communal irrigation systems in the region.
The Philippines is a typhoon -prone country, with approximately 20 typhoons entering its area of responsibility each year. Locally known generally as bagyo, [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less regularly, in the South China Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being the month with the ...
A powerful storm sweeping across the Pacific Ocean in the direction of the Philippines has intensified into a super typhoon, with forecasters warning it could hit the northern part of the country ...
Maka-Diyos, Maka-tao, Makakalikasan at Makabansa ( Filipino for "For God, People, Nature, and Country" [1] or "For the Love of God, People, Nature, and Country" [2]) is the national motto of the Philippines. Derived from the last four lines of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Philippine Flag, it was adopted on February 12, 1998 with the passage ...
The storm's rainfall also prompted PAGASA to declare the start of the 2020 Philippine rainy season on June 12. Typhoon Goni (Rolly) at peak intensity near Catanduanes on November 1, 2020. July 13–14, 2020: Tropical Depression Carina brought heavy rainfall which led to Tropical Cyclone Signal No. 1 being raised over the Babuyan Islands and ...