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(Lina) Many small countries surrounding the Philippines Sea, New Delhi, Malaysia, Indonesia, and etc., are coming together to try to keep China from having complete control. They are planning on sharing the sea with one another.

The west Philippine sea is ours. (2020, May 19). Manila Bulletin Retrieved from https://login.ezproxy.csum.edu/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.csum.edu/docview/2404389312?accountid=10353

(Matt) Since 1981, ocean temperatures have been rising at a rate of +0.32°F every year. The coral reefs in the Philippine Sea experienced its first mass bleaching between 1998-1999 with the worst coral bleaching affecting over 80 percent of Philippine corals.

(Richard) Within the West Philippines Sea, Philippine scientists have discovered an abundant amount of marine life and species that have the potential to be biomedical advances for the Philippines.

(Tucker) Starting in the mid-2000s there has been a significant and unusual growth in intense typhoon occurrences over the Philippine Seas. The increase from before to after the mid-2000s is an occurrence rate of fewer than 0.4 per year to nearly 1.5 serous typhoons per year.

Comparing two periods before and after the mid-2000s indicates that intense typhoons rarely occurred over the PS in September before the mid-2000s, with a frequency of fewer than 0.4 per year, but reached up to nearly 1.5 per year after the mid-2000s. This increase is mostly attributed to climate shifts in the area creating the conditions for the formation of such typhoons more common.