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(Eagle News) – The Cebu provincial government declared a state of calamity for the whole province because of the severe dry spell affecting farms and aqua farms, and causing a sharp decrease in water supply in several towns. The provincial government passed a resolution for the declaration of a state of calamity during the afternoon session of the Provincial Board. With the declaration, the provincial government can now spend P22 million of its quick response […]
(Eagle News) — The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council has released P18.3 million to regional offices of the Department of Agriculture for the conduct of cloud-seeding operations that will supposedly help mitigate the effects of El Nino. In a statement, the NDRRMC said the operations, which aim to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from the clouds by dispersing substances into the air that modify microphysical processes, have been recommended for Regions […]
(Eagle News) — Magsasagawa ng cloud seeding sa loob ng linggong ito ang Department of Agriculrure upang matugunan ang problema ng mga magsasaka kaugnay sa tagtuyot. Labing-isang bayan na sa Occidental Mindoro ang apektado ngayon ng El Niño at may dalawang barangay na ang nagdeklara na ng state of calamity. Sinabi ni Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol na ang pinaka-apektadong ng El Niño hanggang sa Mayo ay ang cental Luzon at ang Visayas. Tiniyak naman ng […]
(Eagle News) — Pinaghahanda ng Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration-Department of Science and Technology (PAGASA-DOST) ang publiko sa pananalasa ng El Niño sa bansa. Sa kasalukuyan ay may umiiral ng mahinang El Niño sa tropical Pacific na tinatawag na meteorological drought ng PAGASA dahil nagdudulot ito ng kabawasan o kakulangan sa ulan. Ayon kay PAGASA Administrator Dr. Vicente Malano, malaki ang porsyento na mabubuo ang El Niño sa buwang ito. Ilang lugar sa […]
Australia’s largest cattle company has warned of “extreme losses” after record-breaking floods, as producers said more than 300,000 cows were drowned or washed away in the vast continent’s northeast. After more than five years of drought, heavy rains over an almost two-week period turned dusty and parched land in Queensland state into vast swathes of mud that bogged down already weakened cattle. Australian Agricultural Company Ltd (AACo) said Monday that four of its properties were […]
TOWNSVILLE, Australia (AFP) — Hundreds of thousands of cattle weakened from a severe drought are feared to have died in record-breaking floods in northeastern Australia, authorities said Friday, as they stepped up efforts to feed surviving livestock. Incessant rains over an almost two-week period have flooded swathes of Queensland state, with the full scale of the devastation on drought-hit cattle stations becoming clearer as floodwaters recede. “We are expecting hundreds of thousands in terms of […]
TOWNSVILLE, Australia (AFP) — Australian ranchers who struggled to keep their cattle alive during a prolonged drought last year are now battling to save herds from record-breaking floods inundating the northeast of the country, officials said on Wednesday. Australia’s military has been called in to drop fodder to cattle stranded by floodwaters in Queensland state to stop them from starving, Agriculture Minister David Littleproud said, with their owners still marooned in their farmsteads. “This is […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — “Hundreds of thousands” of fish have died in drought-stricken Australia in the last few days and more mass deaths are likely to occur, the authorities warned Tuesday. Locals around the Darling River were confronted with a sea of white, as dead fish carpeted the waters near the southeastern Outback town of Menindee. Just weeks after up to a million were killed — with scientists pointing to low water and oxygen levels […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Thousands more fish have died in a key river system in drought-hit eastern Australia just weeks after up to a million were killed, authorities and locals said Monday, sparking fears an ecological disaster is unfolding. Fisheries officials said they were on their way to Menindee, a small outback town in far-west New South Wales state after the third mass fish kill in the area in less than two months. The town […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — As many as a million fish are believed to have died along the banks of a major river system in drought-battered eastern Australia, and the authorities warned Monday of more deaths to come. The banks of the Murray-Darling Rivers are thick with rotten fish, with officials putting the number of dead at hundreds of thousands and saying the toll is likely closer to one million. Further high temperatures forecast for […]
by Laurent ABADIE Agence France-Presse KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Standing in his garden in Kabul, Baz Mohammad Kochi oversees the drilling of a new well more than 100 meters deep after his first water reservoir dried up. He is not alone. A shortage of rain and snow, a booming population and wasteful consumption have drained the Afghan capital’s water basin and sparked a race to the bottom as households and businesses bore deeper and deeper […]
(Eagle News) — The Australian Government is implementing strategies to assist farmers, as a crippling drought — said to be the worst in the last 400 years — has taken over vast areas of pastoral heartlands affecting thousands of farmers who heavily rely on their farms to sustain their households. The Federal Government has announced that they will be providing cash payments of up to Aus$12,000 to assist farmers and drought stricken communities. The […]
