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Nation

Baguio to have enough water supply despite El Niño

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RESTORED WATER SOURCE. The Mount Santo Tomas basin. Rappler photo
‘The rain catchment has fully restored water and will be utilized during summertime when our spring sources cannot be tapped,’ says the Baguio Water District

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines (Jan. 26, 2016) — Water supply for Baguio City residential and commercial establishments will be sustained despite the threat of El Niño, according to the city’s water distributor.

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Province

Negros Occidental drought damages P143M worth of crops, livestocks

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PARCHED. Lack of water affects farmers most of all whose crops and livestock depend on a steady supply of the resource. Photo by Agence France-Presse
Sugarcane plantations covered by Southern Negros Development Corporation and Daconcogon Sugar Central have been hit the hardest

NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines (Jan. 22, 2016) — The continuing dry spell in Negros Occidental has resulted to P143.7 million ($3 million) worth of damage to crops and livestocks.

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Climate Change, Foreign

Abandon coal, oil or face climate disaster

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CLIMATE WARNING. In this file photo, steam rises from coal power plants in Germany on March 4, 2014. Photo by Oliver Berg/EPA
Experts at the World Economic Forum in Davos urge mankind to prevent a global catastrophe

DAVOS, Switzerland (Jan. 21, 2016) — Humanity must stop burning coal, oil and gas to power the global economy or face an irreversible climate catastrophe, scientists, business chiefs and analysts warned at an elite gathering in the Swiss Alps.

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Climate Change, Foreign

Earth shatters warming records, 2015 hottest ‘by far’

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HOTTEST IN MODERN TIMES. This picture taken June 15, 2010 shows cracked and parched earth at central Thailand’s biggest water reservoir, the Pasak Cholasit Dam in Lopburi province, northeast of Bangkok, Thailand. File Photo by Barbara Walton/EPA
Not only was 2015 the warmest worldwide since 1880, it shattered the previous record held in 2014 by the widest margin ever observed

MIAMI, USA (Jan. 21, 2016) — Blistering heat blanketed the Earth last year like never before, making 2015 by far the hottest year in modern times and raising new concerns about the accelerating pace of climate change.

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Climate Change, Foreign

Thousands Of Starved Dead Birds Wash Up On Alaska’s Coasts

This photo taken Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, shows dead common murres on a rocky beach in Whittier, Alaska. Federal scientists in Alaska are looking for the cause of a massive die-off of one of the Arctic’s most abundant seabirds, the common murre. CREDIT: (AP PHOTO/MARK THIESSEN)
Seabird die-offs in Alaska are natural events, but the massive rate of starved dead birds washing ashore this month is as puzzling as it is unprecedented.

January 20, 2016 — Two weeks ago an estimated 8,000 murres were found laying dead by David Irons, a retired seabird biologist from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “I never thought I would see that many dead birds on one beach,” Irons told ThinkProgress.

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