Browsing by Subject "landslides"

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    • Capiz kicks off 1M tree planting project 

      Philippine Information Agency (PIA); PN (Panay News, July 8, 2020, on page 5)
      The “1 Million Kahoy” project kicked off during the recent Arbor Day celebration in this province. Gov. Esteban Evan Contreras led the opening part of the project through an early morning mangrove and upland tree planting ...

    • DA pushes dredging of rivers, tree farming 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, January 10, 2019, on page A7)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) has announced that it would focus more on tree farming nationwide this year as well as dredging of the country’s major rivers to address landslides, flooding and soil erosion, which were ...

    • Maasin watershed's vulnerability to climate change being assessed 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Panay News, August 27, 2010, on page B7)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources 6 and other stakeholders are now conducting an assessment on the vulnerability of the Maasin Watershed to climate change. The assessment is part of the five-day on going ...

    • MWSS: More trees in watersheds lessen turbidity 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 25, 2018, on page A9)
      The Metropolitan Waterworks Sewerage System (MWSS) has called for a sustainable integrated watershed management program in the wake of the increase in the turbidity level of raw water in Ipo dam, which affected water supply ...

    • RP is vulnerable to climate change 

      Lopez, Tony (Manila Standard, March 9, 2018, on page A5)
      Today I adapt the article of my daughter Ivy on climate change at risk: In the last 20 years, the Philippines suffered the most catastrophic events (289). It’s the fifth most vulnerable to climate change with its recurrent ...

    • Saving newborns, doing fish census: PH scientists just want their stories told. 

      Agoncillo, Jodee A. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 3, 2018, on page A6)
      On June 20, the UP system and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will do just that in the first Agham Bayan, a science, technology and innovation festival at the Philippine International Convention Center in ...

    • Sinkhole, landslide, flooding in Masbate after 6.5-magnitude quake 

      Luces, Niño N. (Manila Bulletin, August 20, 2020, on page 1-7)
      A sinkhole was spotted near the shore of Barangay Casabangan, Pio V. Corpuz town in Masbate province, purportedly created after a 6.6 magnitude quake struck the province on Tuesday morning. Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) ...