The magnitude of the catastrophe wrought by Typhoon Haiyan on the central Philippines Friday began to emerge over the weekend in the grisly images of buildings reduced to matchsticks and bodies lyi… ...

Typhoon Haiyan is the Philippines’ fifth natural disaster in a single year, only adding to the relief challenges facing that nation. For insight on why relief efforts appear to be delayed and ...

TYPHOON HAIYAN was a Category 5 storm and one of the largest ever to have made landfall. It battered the Philippines--a nation of more than 7,000 islands, located in the Pacific Ocean, southeast ...

Philippines landslides: A disaster waiting to happen. Death toll from the effects of Tropical Storm Tembin was made worse by human activity.

As the Philippines begins to bury more than a 1,000 disaster victims in mass graves, ... (WWF), and Filipino scientists predicted just such a disaster in Mindanao as happened on Friday.

More than 150 dead or missing from flooding, landslides in the Philippines Talisay, about 43 miles south of Manila, was one of several towns ravaged by Tropical Storm Trami, the deadliest of 11 ...

When the strongest storm to ever hit the Philippines – Typhoon Haiyan – struck the island of Sicogon five years ago, it left a trail of destruction in its path. The 6,000 residents on the ...

MANILA, Philippines – The economic costs of over 400 natural and man-made disasters in 2011 reached over P26 billion, a report of the Citizen’s Disaster Response Center showed.

The Philippines already has risk-reduction laws that the United Nations calls among the best in the world — at least on paper. Legislation passed in 2010 calls for 70 percent of disaster ...

Having multiple layers of vulnerabilities is an unfortunate reality of the Philippines, being one of the most hazard-prone and disaster-hit countries in the world. ... (ODI/HPG) states that “between ...

Almost all of these major disasters in the last two decades happened in the midst of heavy rain that loosened the soil in landslide-prone areas MANILA, Philippines – Landslides are not uncommon ...

The disaster preparedness center also provides detailed information to visitors on the various ways to prepare for calamities, hosting exhibits and learning-by-experience sections.