Deadly rains in Japan point to growing impacts of climate change
Record rainfall across western Japan caused flooding of rivers and landslides. To date, 176 lives are known to have been lost in 13 prefectures. Dozens of people remain unaccounted for and hundreds of thousands of displaced residents are living in …
Rising above the wreckage
By Chuck Baclagon
Struggle is the tension between hope and desperation. It best describes the plight of the many who have gotten a glimpse of climate change’s destructive onslaught already felt by countries like the Philippines.
Three years after Haiyan, …
Beyond Survival: Super Typhoon Haima and the Paris Agreement
By: Chuck Baclagon
The Philippines always ranks in the top 5 most vulnerable countries in the world in various indices. One of the reasons for that that is on average, about 20 tropical cyclones enter Philippine waters annually, with eight …
This is what climate change looks like from the underside
This is what the struggle for climate justice looks like on the frontlines at this moment. In the last 48 hours ~half a million people~ have had to evacuate their homes in coastal areas of the Philippines as they prepare …
The long walk to climate justice
Photo of the Climate Walker as they crossed over San Juanico Bridge to enter Tacloban. Photo by: Chuck Baclagon
Almost a week has passed and we are still reeling. The sunburn has started to peel off, and the calloused soles …
Reclaiming power in an age of inequality
This blog is in support of the movements across the world that are taking action for the Reclaim Power Week of Action.
For the past 5 years the Philippines has been battered by one mega-typhoon after another, a phenomenon that …
Joint Statement: Toward the UN Climate Summit – for the world without climate change crisis and nuclear energy
The climate crisis is one of the biggest issues we face and has been the most threatening concern to the life on the earth we ever experienced. To avert future disasters and critical effects of the climate change, an agreement …