Manila Observatory: Front-Line View of Climate Change, and the Poverty-Risk Connection

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Date of Publication: February 5, 2014

Year of Publication: 2014

Publisher: National Geographic

Author(s): Imelda V. Abano

From their vantage point at Manila Observatory, scientists have monitored changes in temperature and rainfall that have altered life in the Philippines. But they also have watched changes due to human actions—land-use, building, and development decisions that have made people more vulnerable to extreme events, like Typhoon Haiyan.

Anonia Yulo Loyzaga, executive director of the Observatory, talks about the work to understand new weather and geologic hazards facing the Philippines and how communities can work to reduce their risk.

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