LOOK: When a city loses its shade

In a city that grows hotter by the day, trees are not ornaments. They are shelter. Along Quirino Avenue in Manila, that shelter is being cut down, one trunk at a time. What once stood as a line of mature trees with wide canopies now lies in pieces — stumps, roots, sawdust and slabs of freshly cut wood under the punishing sun. Workers rushed to clear tree stumps left from more than 200 trees felled to give way to the Southern Access Link Expressway, or SALEx, a nearly four-kilometer road project that will connect Skyway to Roxas Boulevard. The operation […]... Keep on reading: LOOK: When a city loses its shade

Original source: Philippine Daily Inquirer