El Niño explained
El Niño, one of the most impressive natural phenomena affecting our planet, is also changing appearance
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Drought crisis in Philippines
Typhoons in October devastated agriculture and caused heavy damages to infrastructure in the Philippines. Now a drought is destroying crops and threatening electricity supplies in the Southeast Asian nation, the New York Times reports. Nearly 400,000 acres of farmland have already been affected, and agriculture officials expect the drought to continue, perhaps until July. –New York Times The government of the Philippines is responding with monetary aid to farmers and fishermen; water rationing, drilling wells and even cloud-seeding. An AFP article credits the weather phenomenon of El Niño as the cause of the drought in the Philippines: El Nino is…
