KUALA LUMPUR — Imagine living with water up to your knees for half of the year, where homes are flooded, and people constantly fear that the sea might one day engulf a town and everyone in it.
This is the reality for sinking islands in the Philippines, specifically a cluster of four island villages in Tubigon municipality, Bohol province. Here, the sea level is rising at an alarming rate of 10.8 millimeters a year, three times faster than the global average. If this continues, these islands could disappear by 2100.
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