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Will Haiyan's impact in the Philippines be worsened by deforestation?
2013-11-08 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: While it's too early to assess the impact of Super Typhoon Haiyan - reportedly the strongest tropical storm ever recorded to make landfall - in the Philippines, the damage could be exacerbated by the large-scale loss of the country's forests. According to the national Forest Management Bureau, forest cover in the Philippines declined from 21 million hectares, or 70% of the its land area, in 1900 to about 6.5 million hectares by 2007, mostly due to intensive logging and subsequent conversion to...
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Philippines: Typhoon Haiyan: As climate change continues, we should expect more devastating storms
2013-11-08 19:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mirror: Tropical storm Haiyan built to a crescendo over the Pacific earlier this week before slamming, as a Super Typhoon, into the Philippines south of Manilla yesterday. The island nation was just picking itself up from an earthquake that struck a week or so before, and now is contending with flood, storm and deluge. Breaking lives and destroying communities, Haiyan grew in force steadily, with sustained winds of more than 310 km/h or 195 mph that had developed by Thursday night. It hit land with...
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Powerful Typhoon Causes Mass Disruption in Philippines
2013-11-08 10:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A powerful typhoon that ripped through the Philippines on Friday killed at least four people, officials said, but at least initially it appeared not to live up to fears that it would be a particularly catastrophic storm. Typhoon Haiyan, called Yolanda in the Philippines, slammed into the island of Samar, on the eastern edge of the Philippines, early Friday morning and sped across the islands in the center of the country. Some areas remained unreachable Friday night because of problems with phones,...
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CNN: Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever, heads for central Philippines
2013-11-07 23:13:56| PortlandOnline
News story posted to CNN.com November 7, 2013.
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PHILIPPINES: PVH inks Izod and Van Heusen license deals
2013-11-07 12:32:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
PVH Corp has inked a license deal with BH Fashion Retailers to market apparel and accessories for the Izod and Van Heusen brands in the Philippines.
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