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Photograph by James Whitlow Delano @jameswhitlowdelano for @everydayclimatechange:
A water world as the sea rises and land sinks in and around Manila Bay, Philippines. A fisherman navigates a raised bamboo walkway that remains above the high tide water mark connects two parts of Binuangan Island. Bulacan Province, Philippines
The Philippine capital, Manila, and Manila Bay, are part of one of the most vulnerable metropolitan areas in the world due to climate change-driven sea rise. Less than 15 km (10 miles) north of Manila, coastal communities are sinking faster than the climate crisis is raising sea levels.
"What is being projected 50 years from now or 100 years from now for many parts of the globe", Fernando P. Sirinagan, director of the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute told Reuters, " is actually happening right now at even faster rates", in low-lying areas in Bulacan Province.
Due to climate change, the UN estimates the global average sea level rise of 3 mm (0.11 inches) every year compounds the effect of land subsiding, in a region that is hit by, on average, 20 typhoons annually. That makes flooding at high tide a daily occurrence while rendering it extremely vulnerable to storm surges. .
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