Filipinos wade through floodwaters due to sinking land, rising sea & corruption

Filipinos wade through floodwaters due to sinking land, rising sea & corruption

LOS BAÑOS, Philippines — Flooded homes and submerged roads are now reshaping life in coastal and island communities in the Philippines, showing how a combination of hazards are influencing the way communities adapt and struggle to cope with climate change. In the central Philippines, island barangays — administrative units akin to villages — in Tubigon town might soon be submerged due to land subsidence, brought by a major earthquake in 2013. Me…