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‘Egay’ blows off roofs, floods villages, displaces thousands in Northern Luzon
Supertyphoon “Egay” (international code name Doksuri) slammed an island and lashed northern Philippine provinces with ferocious wind and rain Wednesday, displacing nearly 16,000 villagers as it blew tin roofs off rural houses, flooded low-lying villages and knocked out power, officials said.
Teaching science
CAN science teach? Yes, it can. While we teach science; science can teach us as well. With a lot of help from communicators who do not believe in mystification, and networks that promote shows where people learn to listen because to do so is to survive.
AP Exclusive: Drone footage of collapsed dam shows devastation, no evidence to back Russian claims
KHERSON, Ukraine — Exclusive drone footage of the collapsed Ukrainian dam and surrounding villages under Russian occupation showed the ruined structure falling into the flooded river, hundreds of submerged homes, greenhouses, even a church — and no evidence of an attack from above, as Russia alleges.
Ukrainian dam breach: What is happening and what’s at stake
KYIV, Ukraine — The fallout from the breach of a river dam along a frontline of Russia’s war in Ukraine continued to wreak havoc on lives, livelihoods and the environment on Wednesday.
Lawmaker urges planting trees vs El Niño’s impact
WITH the country again experiencing El Niño, a lawmaker has urged Filipinos to continue planting trees to help mitigate the harsh effects of the weather phenomenon.
Damning the dams
Following the massive flooding in Cagayan, Isabela, Pampanga, Bulacan, Marikina, Rizal, and other parts of the country as Typhoon Ulysses struck, it was easy for everybody to blame the dams for the worst flooding in Luzon since Typhoon Ondoy. In Cagayan and Isabela, for example, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration gave a powerful description of the Magat Dam’s action: At its peak, the dam was releasing 6,706 cubic meters of water per second at maximum discharge. In a span of 11 hours, the dam released enough water to fill 106,223 Olympic-sized swimming pools, or about two pools per second.
Death toll rises to 72 in Peru rains, flooding
LIMA, Peru—The intense rains, overflowing rivers, mudslides and flooding being experienced in the country are the worst seen in two decades, Peruvian authorities said last Saturday, affecting more than half the nation as the death toll since the beginning of the year hit 72.