More articles about: disasters

Nowadays, we can't talk about the rainy season in Metro Manila without expecting widespread flooding in various areas. While the country has experienced severe floods since the '70s, reports indicate that the situation is worsening. Why have we never been able ...

I woke up Wednesday morning to see my car half-submerged under floodwaters just outside my bedroom window. Well that's new, I thought, as I half-ran out of my room in my boxers and ratty old T-shirt to try ...

In case you were wondering, nature doesn't care about your opinion on recent legal wrangling in NYC. Nature's coming again. From our friends at the National Weather Service:One can only hope all the warning systems are in place. There ...

In a small barangay in Legazpi City, Albay, there is a memorial for the victims of a devastating typhoon that hit the Bicol region in November 2006. Tyhoon Reming (international name: Durian) was one of the strongest tropical cyclones to hit this ...

The world may have never been as polarized as it is today, but, as Mother Teresa once said, "Great things happen when people come together." And what better way to highlight the great things collaboration can do than by celebrating exactly that ...

There's no shortage of people willing to help the victims of the most recent typhoons. Time and again, Filipinos have dug deep and offered assistance to those hardest hit by the natural disasters not just in the form of relief goods, ...

The devastation wrought by typhoon Ulysses continues to unravel. Images of people trying to rebuild, particularly in Marikina and Rizal province, are all over social media. It's doubly heartbreaking considering that it's barely been a few days since typhoon Rolly ...

The 6.1-magnitude earthquake that struck the Philippines on April 22, 2019 left many in Luzon shaken. In its wake, the natural occurrence left more than just a couple of items out of place. Operations were immediately halted in transportation systems, ...

There's something beautiful about sorting through years' worth of data and presenting it in a way that isn't just useful and informative, but also visually pleasing. And that's exactly what data science and engineering team Thinking Machines did with ...