http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Fri, 24 May 2013 02:00:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/15/earth-science-week-the-fight-against-flooding-in-manila/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/15/earth-science-week-the-fight-against-flooding-in-manila/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:00:04 +0000 Emma Wigley http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=29111 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.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/15/earth-science-week-the-fight-against-flooding-in-manila/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/07/their-houses-and-livelihoods-are-buried-why-do-they-stay/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/07/their-houses-and-livelihoods-are-buried-why-do-they-stay/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:54:58 +0000 Emma Wigley http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27192 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. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/07/their-houses-and-livelihoods-are-buried-why-do-they-stay/feed/ 1