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Tag: Earth Files

  • 1- Memorial_with angel statue.jpg
    Categories Earth Files News

    Rising but remembering – Ormoc years after the deadly flood

    By Cooper Resabal  |  Nov 18, 2020 2:30 PM

    Ormoc was once devastated by a powerful typhoon. The painful experience taught the city valuable lessons that can be used in rebuilding communities ravaged by Typhoon Ulysses.

    1991 Ormoc floods, disaster, Earth Files, flash floods, floods

  • Survivor Nenita Ablen (center) with husband (left) and child (right) who was 2-months old during flood. ((Liza Macalandag).jpg
    Categories Earth Files News

    Ormoc flood survivor’s lesson: drop everything and run for your life

    By By Cooper Resabal  |  May 11, 2019 12:01 PM

    ORMOC CITY – In an emergency, drop everything and run for your life.

    Earth Files, Ormoc floods

  • Environmental groups led by Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives  bat for zero waste. Photo by Imelda  V. Abano.jpg
    Categories Earth Files News

    Missing in the 2019 election campaign discourse: protection of environment

    By Imelda V. Abano  |  May 09, 2019 2:58 PM

    At the homestretch of the 2019 election campaign, environment groups are dismayed that the issue of environment protection has not been given much attention by the candidates.

    Earth Files, PHLVOTE2019

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    Categories Earth Files News

    Journalists learn firsthand about climate-smart farming

    By Klaire Ting  |  May 04, 2019 8:19 PM

    What better way to learn about how Climate Change affects people’s daily lives than a visit to a farm and talk with farmers?

    Climate Smart Agriculture, Earth Files, IIRR

  • 9-Student with a  seedling.jpg
    Categories Earth Files News

    Ormoc learns to tame nature’s wrath after killer flood

    By Cooper Resabal  |  Apr 15, 2019 9:00 PM

    Revisiting the day of the flash flood, there is a sense that all the elements that could make a disaster happen happened that day.

    1991 Ormoc floods, Earth Files

  • 1- Memorial_with angel statue.jpg
    Categories Earth Files Editor's Pick News

    Rising but remembering – Ormoc 28 years after the deadly flood

    By Cooper Resabal  |  Apr 15, 2019 8:41 PM

    Residents share their experience of the flood 28 years ago.

    1991 Ormoc floods, Earth Files

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    Categories Earth Files

    Journalists told to be aware of threats they face

    By Text and photos by Klaire Ting  |  Jan 25, 2019 3:25 PM

    Vera Files President Ellen Tordesillas was giving a background on the Earth Journalism Network to the 20 journalists attending a safety seminar when they heard a loud, insistent knock on the door.

    Earth Files, EJN Safety Training

  • Photo 4 - Fishermen on the beach of a cleaner Boracay.jpg
    Categories Earth Files Editor's Pick News

    A cleaner Boracay awaits tourists but work is unfinished

    By Text and photos by Cooper Resabal  |  Oct 19, 2018 10:44 PM

    BORACAY–Residents and employees of tourist establishments wear masks as they pass through diggings, or ride e-trikes over dusty roads to prevent possible health problems resulting from exposure to dust, contaminated water and garbage waiting to be collected.

    Boracay, Earth Files

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    Categories Earth Files

    Philippine journalists to revisit ‘cold’ environment disasters

    By VERA Files' Earth Files team  |  Sep 17, 2018 11:14 PM

    MANILA – For the 18 journalists and journalism students who attended VERA Files’ training workshop on Reporting “Cold” Environment Cases at the Richmonde Hotel in Pasig City last June 28, it was a look-back, a review, and for some, a jarring reminder of the horrors of covering an environmental disaster.

    Earth Files

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