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Philippine Rep Makes Plea for 'Global Solidarity' to Fight 'Climate Madness'
2013-11-11 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: At UN climate convention in Warsaw, negotiator says to climate change deniers: "Get off your ivory towers and pay a visit to the Philippines" - Lauren McCauley, staff writer Philippine representative Naderev Sano is greeted by Japanese delegate Hiroshi Minami (right) at the beginning of the United Nations climate change conference on November 11, 2013 in Warsaw. (Photo: Janek Skarzynski/ AFP)The climate crisis is "madness" and environmentally vulnerable nations such as the Philippines do not...
In devastated Philippine city, anger grows, aid elusive
2013-11-11 15:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Hung outside a shattered church in the Philippine coastal city of Tacloban, on a road flanked with uncollected corpses and canyons of debris, is a handwritten sign. It read, "We need help!" Relief supplies are pouring into Tacloban three days after Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, turned this once-vibrant port city of 220,000 into a corpse-choked wasteland. Tacloban city administrator Tecson Juan Lim says the death toll in this city alone "could go up to 10,000."...
Philippine typhoon survivors beg for help as rescuers struggle
2013-11-11 15:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Dazed survivors begged for help and scavenged for food, water and medicine on Monday after a super typhoon killed an estimated 10,0000 in the central Philippines. President Benigno Aquino declared a state of national calamity and deployed hundreds of soldiers in the coastal city of Tacloban to quell looting. The huge scale of death and destruction from Friday's storm become clearer as reports emerged of thousands of people missing and images showed apocalyptic scenes in one town that has not...
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Food, Water are Top Concerns for Philippine Survivors
2013-11-11 15:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: In the Central Philippines authorities are struggling to reach many of the some 600,000 people displaced by Super Typhoon Haiyan. Officials anticipate a death toll in the thousands. At the Villamor Air Force Base in Manila, C130 planes filled with relief goods are headed to one of the hardest hit cities, Tacloban in Leyte Province. Some relief organizations say their provisions are taking three times longer to get there because so many land routes have been blocked by massive piles of debris...
George Clooney on Philippine typhoon: Terrible
2013-11-10 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The mounting death toll in the Philippines weighed heavily on the minds of George Clooney and Idris Elba, honored at the Britannia Awards Saturday night in Los Angeles. Clooney said he was following the news about Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the eastern seaboard of the Philippines Friday. As many as 10,000 people are believed dead in one Philippine city alone from one of the worst storms ever recorded. "It`s terrible," said Clooney on the red carpet. "And it`s headed towards Vietnam and we`ll...
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