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Living in a village that's sinking into the sea

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In Sitio Pariahan in the Philippines, villagers attend Sunday mass in a flooded church, while all roads have vanished underwater. The sinking village is situated on Manila Bay, where a combination of climate change, rise in sea level, the disappearance of mangrove swamps and land subsidence has made the area increasingly prone to floods and typhoon damage.
In Sitio Pariahan in the Philippines, villagers attend Sunday mass in a flooded church, while all roads have vanished underwater. The sinking village is situated on Manila Bay, where a combination of climate change, rise in sea level, the disappearance of mangrove swamps and land subsidence has made the area increasingly prone to floods and typhoon damage.

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