Residents of Pugad, an island in the Philippines, have to remove water from their homes by hand, sometimes spending hours scooping each day. Their island is flooded about three times a week. According ...

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Manila Bay is swallowing the Philippines' Pugad Island, where land subsidence is being exacerbated by rising sea levels - Copyright AFP Ted ALJIBE Manila Bay is ...

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On the Philippine island of Pugad, street food vendor Maria Tamayo wakes before her grandchildren to begin the backbreaking work of removing seawater from her home scoop by scoop with a plastic ...