Why use Cebu rivers as dumps?

Bencyrus Ellorin 03/20/2015

Philippine Water Week  hits a high note this weekend with a Hangyo sa Sapa River Clean-Up on Saturday and  a walk-bike tour of the Parian esteros  in  Syagit sa Sapa in Cebu City on Sunday. Rapid urbanization…

Shark gives birth in Malapascua

Bencyrus Ellorin 03/06/2015

A rare photo of a Thresher Shark (Alopias pelagicus) giving birth in the Monad Shoal off Malapascua Island has awed the scientific community and revived calls to protect the important underwater mountain. The photo taken in 2013…

Shark gives birth in Malapascua

Bencyrus Ellorin 03/06/2015

A rare photo of a Thresher Shark (Alopias pelagicus) giving birth in the Monad Shoal off Malapascua Island has awed the scientific community and revived calls to protect the important underwater mountain. The photo taken in 2013…

Airshed board works for better air in 2015

Bencyrus Ellorin 02/27/2015

Cebu city air quality is ‘fair to good’ but Naga’s is worse than Metro Manila Closer air quality monitoring in  Metro Cebu  is expected  with the installation of more pollution monitoring stations by  midyear. Three devices capable…

German dead, French, Indian injured in Talisay shooting

Bencyrus Ellorin 02/20/2015

A German national was killed while two other foreigners were injured when they were shot by two gunmen inside a McDonald restaurant in barangay Tabunok, Talisay City around 4:20 a.m. Friday. A security guard stands in front…

Pit Señor all over the town

Bencyrus Ellorin, Marian Z. Codilla 01/13/2015

Five days before the fiesta señor, Cebu is all abuzz to celebrate the coming of the Child Jesus. The feast of the Sto. Niño is both a religious fiesta and an important secular celebration to pay homage…

New Year’s Day will be sunny

Bencyrus Ellorin 12/31/2014

The last day of 2014 will have cloudy skies, some sunshine and light showers. “But the heavy rains are gone,” said Oscar Tabada, director for the Visayas of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Agency (Pagasa).…

‘Seniang’ crosses south Cebu, Central Visayas

Bencyrus Ellorin, Carine M. Asutilla, Chito O. Aragon, Doris C. Bongcac, Edison Delos Angeles, Fe Marie Dumaboc, Melissa Q. Cabahug, Rene Alima 12/30/2014

POWER OUTAGES, HEAVY RAIN   Power outages were reported in south Cebu towns of Oslob and Alcoy as typhoon Seniang made a second landfall in Bohol province about 10 p.m. last night. The storm’s 65-kilometer-per-hour winds  toppled…

Pagasa raises flood, landslide warnings as Seniang crosses Central Visayas

Bencyrus Ellorin 12/29/2014

Seniang caused floods, destroying infrastructure in northeastern and northern Mindanao As tropical storm Seniang traversed the Bohol Sea yesterday afternoon, the state weather bureau raised the flood alert level in  Bohol, Southern Leyte and Leyte to red,…

‘Ruby’ crawls across PH; Flood-causing rains noted

Bencyrus Ellorin 12/07/2014

Typhoon “Ruby” (international name: Hagupit) continues to crawl across the central Philippine islands at 10 kilometers per hour, bringing violent winds and damaging rainfall for prolonged time. As of 5 p.m. yesterday, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and…

“Ruby” landfalls in Masbate; Flood warning in N. Cebu

Bencyrus Ellorin 12/07/2014

 As of 8 a.m. Pagasa issued an orange flood warning in Northern Cebu, Bantayan and Camotes islands. Orange warning means “flood is threatening” because of heavy to intense rainfall (15-30mm/hour). As typhoon “Ruby” landfalls in Masbate island…

Flood, landslide warning up in Samar provinces

Bencyrus Ellorin 12/06/2014

(UPDATE) As of 1:30, Pagasa noted weather in Cebu to deteriorate with light to moderate rains that “may persist for 1-2 hours.” The light to moderate have been monitored in Cebu City, Consolacion, Lapulapu, Cordova, Liloan, Compostela,…

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