the nearby Catholic diocese of Borongan. “The water came in and just swept everything away‚’’ said Gregorio‚ one of the first aid responders to reach Hernani‚ pointing to the ocean about 700 meters ( yards ) away and hidden by a strip of now-dead mangrove forest. On the day an AFP team visited‚ the Catholic cemetery in this deeply religious country was jumble of upturned and broken concrete and marble tombs‚ half-buried by the fine‚ crushed coral that came in with the water. A calcified hand stuck
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Philippines - Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services Photo: Beach in Philippines More Information Context Progress Institutional design What’s New? Context The Philippines is among the few countries that implemented environmental and natural resources accounting during the 1990’s and early 2000’s‚ but it has only been implemented minimally over the last 10 years due to budgetary constraints‚ among other issues. The new political leadership emphasizes governance reforms
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NATURE PRESERVATION In the 21st century‚ as a result of global-warming‚ environmentalism has adopted a more inclusive‚ planetary view. Human abuse of nature is almost as old as recorded history. The loss of biodiversity is not healthy for mankind and it is mostly the man-made causes which contribute to destruction of nature. But now serious steps towards the preservation of nature must be undertaken to reduce over-exploitation of resources and environment degradation and to prevent the
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Dear Grace‚How are you and your family getting on? I hope everyone is fine. I await with eager anticipation to share with you that I spend a family vacation on a tropical island ended up with this wonderful holiday trip to Tioman‚ a popular Malaysian island resort which shot to fame as the island of Bali Hai in the Rodger’s & Hammerstein movie of ’South Pacific’. First day that we started our journey‚ we boarded the high-speed ferry from Kluang ferry terminal in Malaysia for the 2 hour journey to
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UV0100 EXXONMOBIL AND THE CHAD CAMEROON PIPELINE In November 1999‚ ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond faced the potential collapse of the Chad/Cameroon Oil Pipeline project on which the company was about to embark. Both Royal Dutch/Shell and France’s TotalFinaElf‚ ExxonMobil’s partners in the Pipeline Consortium‚ had just withdrawn‚ citing environmental concerns among other things and leaving its future temporarily in doubt. This withdrawal delighted many environmental groups long opposed to the pipeline
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Climate Change and the Effect on Endangered Species There are many problem in this world‚ every day an anomaly is done that affect the future of this planet. As history illustrate man has always wanted to expand his borders without laying site of what horror he left behind The urge to develop and expand the society has merely brought about the distraction of this planet. A trench has been dug so far off‚ that it’s merely impossible to ride that horse once again. In the last decade machine and
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‚ Seagrass and Seaweed Resources The PCRA covered the assessment of seagrass beds in Sitio Look‚ Barangay Talavera‚ Taganaan‚ Surigao del Norte on October 25‚ 2012. Barangay Talavera is one of the 17 barangays of Taganaan‚ covered for the seagrass survey; however‚ due to typhoon Ofel‚ out of the two sampling sites identified‚ only one site was assessed. The survey involved the use of the transect-quadrat method modified after English et. al (1997). Three transect lines were laid in the sampled
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STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL ___ INTROD TO OCEANOGRAPHY NOTE: This list is NOT exhaustive. It is only a rough guide‚ with broad topics! THE FIRST PART OF THE SEMESTER (11 chapters) – main ideas only: Examples of main ideas are: The Earth – origin of Earth‚ oceans‚ life; the Earth’s internal layers… know physical concepts such as energy (kinetic‚ heat)‚ density‚ convection‚ bioaccumulation‚ biodegradation‚ photo-degradation‚ diffusion… Plate Tectonics – major Plate Tectonic principles;
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Hi my name is Agent Zeek ‚ Im a vacation travel agent‚ my job is to make presentation and advertise different travel packages and to promote different part of the world. During the past few weeks i been traveling to different part of the world‚ and the most spatacular place that caught my attention was the tropical rain forest.Tropical rainforests cover about 6% of the Earth’s total land surface. They are mainly located around the belt at the equator. The climate of the rainforest is warm most of
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CONTENT Unit-6: Education for Environmental Sustainability a) Meaning of sustainable development - Concept of environmental sustainability - Sustainable development from ecological perspective & biogeophysical perspective - Situation analysis: forest cover and conservation‚ bio-diversity‚ natural parts & wild life sanctuaries‚ availability of potable water‚ toilet
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