MINDANAO DAILY NEWS JUNE 27,2012

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RURAL TRANSIT BACHELOR EXPRESS

“First in Service, Foremost in Fleet Maintenance”

NONOY LECHON SERVICES OFFERED OUT OF TOWN ORDER

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Cagayan de Oro City

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June 27, 2012

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Fire kills 1, destroys 80 structures in Mati The burning structures of former Envir and Rio cinemas, and a former bowling lane building in Nazareno Street, Barangay Central in Mati City, Davao Oriental. Photo by Ben Arche

By BEN D. ARCHE, Regional editor-Davao

Oro dads thank SM Prime for ‘Sendong’ assistance THE city council of Cagayan de Oro recently passed Resolution No. 10909-2012 expressing its sincerest gratitude to SM Prime Holdings, for “extending financial assistance to the victims of Typhoon Sendong . . . and for sharing sympathies in one way or another to the Kagay-anons during our time of grief.” SM Prime in collaboration with SM Foundation and SM Supermarket was one of the first to respond to the victims of this tragedy last December. It donated P3 million to the city government for its relief efforts, and distributed relief goods, drinking water, clothes, medicines, and medical THANK/PAGE 7

MATI City, Davao Oriental––A service driver, who is at the same time the caretaker of an electronic services shop, and about 80 commercial and residential buildings were razed to the ground Sunday evening in a fire that hit a downtown area here.

PHOTO BY BONG D. FABE IRDFS TOUR. Mayor Nacianceno Pacalioga Jr. (extreme left, in white shirt) of Dumingag town in Zamboanga del Sur leads visitors on a tour of several hectares of IRDFS farms in the municipality that are ready for harvest.

Chief Inspector Dominador Cruda IV, Mati City Police Office (MCPO) chief bared that the fire started at the Don-Don Repair and Electronic Services in Nazareno Street, Barangay Central. Police identified the

victim as Leonzo Areza, a resident of Sitio Canipa, Barangay Don Enrique Lopez, and the service driver and caretaker of the electronic services shop. Reports from the city’s Bureau of Fire Protection FIRE/PAGE 7

IRDFS farmers: Protecting Earth through organic rice By BONG FABE

Second part (This story was produced under the Climate Change: A Reporting Lens from Asia/ IPS Asia-Pacific) GHGs produce the greenhouse effect, which traps

heat near the earth’s surface, maintaining a relative constant temperature. As GHG concentrations in the atmosphere increase, earth’s temperature also increases. While there are natural causes of global warming, scientific studies also point to human activities as the culprit. And one of these is

rice production. GHGs absorb and emit infrared radiation . Scientists have identified five GHGs that are most abundant in the earth’s atmosphere: water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH 4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ozone (O3 ).

Other GHGs include chlorofluorocarbons and nitrogen compounds. But the three most disastrous GHGs produced by human activities are CO2, CH4, and N2O. According to studies, humankind has released 350 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere since

the Industrial Revolution (1700s), when the steam engine was invented using coal as fuel. The Climate Change Science Program of the United States Environmental Protection Agency said that the concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane ORGANIC/PAGE 7

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