A fourth-grade student attends an online class at her home in Quezon City, the Philippines, April 5, 2024. Sweltering weather has forced 3,954 schools across the Philippines to implement alternative delivery modes of learning to protect the students from the high heat index, the government said...
a composite index that also includes risks from climate-related hazards (www.WorldRiskReport.org). As of 2015, as many as 40.5% of the country’s total population (100.98 million) were city dwellers33. Today, heat health risk is considered one of the...
It should be noted that the location of Port Area, Manila City is near Manila Bay, which may indicate that the meteorological parameters may not be representative of the whole of Manila City. The calculation of thermal index is calculated based on the meteorological parameters while these ...