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FEATURE | ENVIRONMENT
In the 11th Month of the Year Written by Mdpn. Anthony Ken J. Bucasas
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here were many untold stories of how people in the Philippines suffered every time the 11th month of the year passed by. Some stories were about the dead relatives we remember but some were about the tragedies suffered by Filipinos during the strong typhoons that passed by in the country.
CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN HELPED THE ENVIRONMENT TO BOUNCE BACK As the transmission of novel corona virus (COVID-19) increases rapidly, the whole world adopted the curfew/ lockdown activity with restriction of human mobility. The imposition of quarantine stopped all the commercial activity that greatly affects the various important environmental parameters which directly connected to human health. As all the types of social, economic, industrial and urbanization activity suddenly shut off, nature takes the advantages and showed improvement in the quality of air, cleaner rivers, less noise pollution, undisturbed and calm wildlife. “Although coronavirus vaccine is not available coronavirus itself is earth’s vaccine and us humans are the virus”. Source: Abstract of Shefali Arora, Kanchan Deoli Bhaukhandi, and Pankaj Kumar Mishrac
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THE DOLPHIN
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In the 11th month of the year, a person can lose everything – his house, his car, or even his loved ones. Nature’s wrath is truly unforgivable, but the way humanity treated the environment was never different.
Past and the present.
Seven years ago, 6340 people died when a Category 5 typhoon named Haiyan or known as “Bagyong Yolanda” devastated the Philippines. Cold bodies were left in streets, the sound of wailing from people asking for help awaken the whole world, and it was a day when a lot of people prayed for being safe but a mourning for some. It was November — the 11th month of the year. Recently, Super Typhoon Rolly, another Category 5 typhoon that wiped out some parts of Catanduanes, and Typhoon Ulysses that made the whole province of Cagayan submerged in flood-water in the middle of a pandemic. It was November — the 11th month of the year.
The formation.
Whether it is named as typhoons in the western Pacific Ocean, hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, or cyclones in the Indian Ocean, strong tropical cyclones are an example of nature’s violent rage. The criteria that conspire to form tropical cyclones are rather simple. Its origin can be traced with a small atmospheric disturbance located near or in a tropical ocean. If water temperatures are warm enough, generally
