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Bicol Region's Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council sounded the alarm on Tuesday night, October 22, as tropical storm Kristine caused floods in Camarines Sur, Albay, and Naga City."Sa kasalukuyan,hindi na po kaya ng mga rescuers na tugunan ...

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 ...

As a country lying directly on the path of the typhoon belt in the northwestern Pacific Ocean as well as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines is no stranger to natural disasters. Up to 60 percent of its land area and ...

By now, photos of devastation from Typhoon Odette (international name Rai) that left a path of destruction across many areas in the southern part of the Philippines have already circulated in the news and social media. The photos and videos show just ...

Prior to its impending eruption in 1991, nobody knew Mt. Pinatubo was a volcano. It had been dormant for centuries, its last eruption occurring 1,500 years earlier. Volcanologists only suspected it could blow up when a series of earthquakes and changes ...