Climate change is making the Philippines more vulnerable to tropical storms, with rising temperatures already putting the country at nearly double the risk of deadly typhoons, scientists said in a report published on Thursday.

Human-induced climate change fuelled a rare string of back-to-back typhoons that battered the Philippines this year and boosted the chances of powerful storms making landfall, a new study said on Thursday.

Philippines facing ‘unprecedented’ back-to-back typhoons. Scientists now say climate crisis is to blame - Philippines, a country that already faces the highest numbers of tropical cyclones in the world,