As the planet is affected by global warming, storms and typhoons are becoming more powerful, scientists warn.
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Tropical storm Megi which hit the Philippines, causing gigantic landslides, killed at least 42 people, according to the latest official reports on Tuesday, April 12.
Hampered by mud and rain, rescuers spent the day searching, sometimes with their bare hands, for survivors in several mountain villages engulfed in mud. LThe search for the missing was suspended in the evening because he was “too dangerous” to pursue them in the dark and in the rain, according to Marissa Miguel Cano, spokesperson for the municipality of Baybay, the hardest hit area.
Landslides occasionally occur in this agricultural region, but the magnitude of those on Monday was surprising. “We are supposedly in the middle of the dry season, but climate change must have disrupted all that”, said Marissa Miguel Cano. As the planet is affected by global warming, storms and typhoons are becoming more powerful, scientists warn.
Megi, known in the Philippines by its local name Agaton, is the first major tropical storm to hit the country this year, which is frequently hit by natural disasters.