Thick smog shrouds Asian cities

Associated Press 11/15/2024

NEW DELHI (AP) — Thick smog shrouded New Delhi and other cities around South and Southeast Asia as air pollution levels soared Thursday. Air pollution in the region worsens particularly in winter when the burning of crop…

Haze: What health risks does it pose?

Pia Piquero 11/15/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Hazy skies settled over Cebu City on Thursday morning, November 14, 2024, prompting officials to warn residents, especially those with respiratory conditions, of potential health risks. The Environmental Management Bureau in Central Visayas…

Light haze in Cebu City may prevail until Friday

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/14/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The light haze detected in Cebu City on Thursday, Nov. 14 may prevail until Friday, the state weather bureau said. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration in Mactan (Pagasa-Mactan) said that…

Light haze blankets Cebu City, Pagasa confirms

Futch Anthony Inso 11/14/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) Visayas has confirmed the presence of light haze in Cebu. Van Sabellano, a weather specialist at Pagasa-Visayas, said they had observed the light haze…

Did haze cause female college student’s demise in Cebu?

Futch Anthony Inso, Rosalie Abatayo 09/23/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines ⁠—The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) is not confirming reports that a female college student from Cebu did indeed die because of the haze that blanketed Metro Cebu in the past days.…

Labella tells City Health Office to give out free N95 masks

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/21/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella has directed the City Health Office (CHO) to distribute N95 masks to help protect city residents from the ill effects of the haze that is now experience in…

Particle measurement for Cebu haze drops but still above normal

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/20/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Environmental Management Bureau in Central Visayas (EMB-7) recorded a 47 microgram per normal cubic meter (ug/ncm) particulate matter in the atmosphere on Friday, which is well within the maximum average of 50…

Hotels near CBP brace for haze from Metro fire

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/07/2018

HOTELS within the vicinity of Cebu Business Park (CBP) will have to come up with their own measures to combat the smoke and haze coming from the Metro Ayala department store fire which has been running for…

Metro Ayala fire expected to be completely put out today; haze alert lifted

Ador Vincent Mayol 01/07/2018

  The fire at Metro Ayala in Cebu City is expected to be completely put out by firefighters within the day. Senior Supt. Samuel Tadeo, chief of the Bureau of Fire and Protection in Central Visayas (BFP-7),…

Haze alert up

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo, Jessa Mae O. Sotto, Morexette B. Erram, Rosalie Abatayo 01/06/2018

People urged to protect selves from smoke, avoid area near fire scene Take precautions for the smoke coming from the ongoing Gaisano Metro Ayala store fire. Nagiel Bañacia, Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CCDRRMO) chief,…

Delhi smog sparks health ‘emergency’

11/08/2016

NEW DELHI — Authorities in Delhi on Monday closed schools, halted construction work and shut down a major power plant after days of choking smog led to warnings of a health “emergency” in the world’s most polluted…

Alex

Raymund Fernandez 01/10/2016

The Turtles bar and book cafe is in a perennial half dark. Let us, for now, remember ourselves here. And him with us, bottles of beer on the table. The table normally sits four but we see…

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