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Earth Science Week: The fight against flooding in Manila
The last time I wrote a blog for The Independent I was sat on a sagging mattress in a dingy, damp hotel room in Metro Manila, eating a dubious pot noodle (the restaurants were closed), and hoping against hope that the internet might just hold up just long enough for me to file my copy – it didn’t of course, and I had to dictate it all over a crackly phone line which took infinitely longer than it should have done. It was August 7th 2012, the day a tropical monsoon downpour caused devastating flooding in the densely-populated city, which affected more than 1.2 million people.
By Emma Wigley | Notebook, Science & Technology | Monday, 15 October 2012 at 11:00 am
Their houses and livelihoods are buried – why do they stay?
I have been staying in Manila for just over a week now, having arrived in the middle of Typhoon Saola (locally known as Gener). Ever since we left the airport last week the weather has been a key feature here, raining heavily daily, but last night things changed.
By Emma Wigley | Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 7 August 2012 at 5:54 pm
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