Killer air

2021-12-16T12:11:06+08:0005 Dec 2021|Tags: , , , , |

December 5, 2021 | Editorial published by Philippine Daily Inquirer | READ THE STORY HERE A week into the initial COVID-19 lockdown in March last year, residents of Metro Manila, the country’s economic hub, looked out of their windows and saw clear, blue skies and pronounced skylines they hadn’t seen in decades. With people locked inside [...]

‘The future is frightening’

2021-10-04T14:43:01+08:0003 Oct 2021|Tags: , , , , , , |

October 3, 2021 | Published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer | READ THE STORY HERE Last Sept. 24, hundreds of protesters across the country joined a global climate strike demanding urgent action from governments to address climate change. Among them were fisherfolk and young environment advocates who marched to the site of the controversial Manila Bay [...]

Long-term plans needed to protect Metro Manila’s most vulnerable from rising seas

2021-09-28T16:22:05+08:0027 Sep 2021|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Text by Jhesset Enano, photos by AC Dimatatac | September 27, 2021 | Published by Inquirer.net | READ THE STORY HERE (Last of two parts) Ariel Cortes has lived most of his life surrounded by water. As a young boy in the 1970s, he worked as a fishpond caretaker until he was old enough to [...]

Urban poor struggle to adapt as rising seas threaten to remap Metro Manila

2021-09-28T15:58:43+08:0026 Sep 2021|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Text by Jhesset Enano, photos by AC Dimatatac | September 26, 2021 | Published by Inquirer.net | READ STORY HERE (First of two parts) Odd-sized wooden stilts strain to keep Jocel Madrano’s house just over a meter above the gray polluted waters of Manila Bay. The shack, a patchwork of dilapidated plywood and partly anchored [...]

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