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Published December 23, 2020, 12:04 PM It’s less than two weeks before the year ends but the agriculture sector still keeps on incurring damages due to typhoons. As of Wednesday, the total damage and losses the sector incurred due to Tropical Storm Vicky already stood at P111.01 million, affecting 15,933 farmers and fisherfolk and 19,846 hectares of agricultural areas, according to the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM). Typhoon Vicky, which hit parts of the Visayas last Friday, so far resulted in a production loss of about 942 metric tons (MT) o...

4 dead, 6 missing after mining pit collapsed in Cebu enablePagination: false endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 22) — At least four were confirmed dead on Tuesday, while six others remain missing after the collapse of a mining pit in Barangay Biga, Toledo City, Cebu on Monday afternoon. According to Carmen Copper Corporation, the company behind mining operations in the area, the death toll was updated as of 1 p.m. of Tuesday. The company said in a statement that it is continuously looking for the six missing workers. “As of this time we are in close coordination and commun...

Published December 22, 2020, 10:21 AM Carmen Copper Corporation (CCC), an operating mine of Atlas Consolidated Mining Development Corporation (ACMDC) based in Toledo City, Cebu, confirmed that around that a slide happened at its Carmen Pit in the afternoon of December 21, 2020. In a statement, CCC said the slide at its mine operations site was due to the incessant rains for the past several months and aggravated by Typhoon Vicky which hit parts of the Visayas, including Toledo City last December 18. “The Management of CCC is doing all the necessary action to assess and address the overall s...

Rescue efforts at collapsed mining pit in Cebu to begin Tuesday enablePagination: false endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 21) — Rescue operations at a collapsed mining pit in Toledo City won't begin until Tuesday morning, according to local authorities. John Rosello, Toledo City's public information officer, said in a telephone interview that authorities have already positioned the equipment needed for search and rescue efforts, but the operations will only start at 6 am of Tuesday since the site is still unstable and dangerous for rescuers. In a statement, Carmen Copper Co...

Dingdong Dantes, Atom Araullo, more environmental champions to talk about climate change on Facebook Live Dingdong Dantes Atom Araullo Dingdong Dantes will be joining environmental champions on a Facebook Live on Sunday, December 20, to talk about climate change. With Filipinos in Mindanao this time, suffering from massive flooding due to Typhoon Vicky, the Kapuso Primetime King said the Facebook Live session will be a part of their youth-led climate action campaign that they launched five years ago. "Its battlecry remains true, if not more significant, to this day," Dingdong wrote in the...