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
Almost a week has passed and we are still reeling. The sunburn has started to peel off, and the calloused soles …