Western Visayas officials have called on the national government to find and release funds for repair and rehabilitation projects in areas ravaged by last year’s typhoon “Frank”, warning of the possibility of another disaster when the rainy season sets in.
Presidential Assistant for Western Visayas Raul Banias said the release of the P8-billion “Paglaum (Hope) Fund” [...]

MANILA, Philippines—Metro Manila can expect rains over the next few days the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said Friday.
Eastern Luzon will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms while the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in [...]

Despite observations worldwide showing a significant increase in global temperature, developing countries, like the Philippines, are bearing the brunt of high costs of climate change and the majority of Filipinos seem to remain complacent about it.
Dr. Leoncio Amadore, former director of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa), said unless the government takes [...]

ANOTHER massive flooding might devastate the city and province of Iloilo if critical infrastructure projects under the still unfunded P8-billion Paglaum Fund are not realized.
This was the grim scenario painted by Dr. Raul Banias, presidential assistant for Western Visayas, during the Western Visayas Regional Planning Summit at Iloilo Grand Hotel Thursday morning.

Western Visayas leaders from the government, business sector, academe, and non-government organizations gather today at the Iloilo Grand Hotel in Iznart Street, Iloilo City for the Western Visayas Regional Planning Summit.
Themed “Weathering Uncertainties: Building a Resilient Region,” the summit is jointly organized by the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Economic Development Council (MIGEDC), and the regional offices of [...]

THE national government is still scrounging for sources of the P8-billion Paglaum Fund intended to rehabilitate areas of Panay devastated by typhoon Frank last year.
Dr. Raul Banias, presidential assistant for Panay and Guimaras, said the Paglaum Fund is dependent on the approval of the Simplified Net Income Tax Scheme (Snits) Bill now pending in the [...]

ILOILO CITY – Barangays should start adopting rainwater harvesting techniques, said Jessica Salas of the Kahublagan sang Panimaly Foundation, Inc. (KSPFI) and the Tigum-aganan Watershed Management Board during a forum that tackled rainwater harvesting technology in the midst of issues on water scarcity, damage to the ecosystem of the Maasin Watershed, and the problem on flooding.
President [...]

Allah Valley is a name new to most Ilonggos but not to the Hiligaynon-speaking residents of Mindanao where this landscape is found. In fact, it has been home to them for decades since migration south was encouraged in the 1950s, especially in the provinces of South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat.
But the major river systems traversing [...]

MANILA, Philippines—Some 50 cities around the country have pledged to support Earth Hour on March 28—a Saturday—by shutting off electricity for one hour, an environmental group said Wednesday.
World Wildlife Fund campaign manager Yeb Saño also said they are targeting saving 100 megawatts for electricity during the shutdown.

WESTERN Visayas region is one three regions in the country included in the Forestland Management (FORM) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
Project FORM is a ten-year project aimed at rehabilitating degraded conditions of affected communities in the three critical basins in Western Visayas, the Cordillera Administrative Region, Cagayan Valley (Region 2), and Central [...]