nuclear-news

Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows.

The first half of 2025 was the costliest on record for major disasters in
the US, driven by huge wildfires in Los Angeles and storms that battered
much of the rest of the country, according to a climate non-profit that has
resurrected work axed by Donald Trump’s administration that tracked the
biggest disasters.

In the first six months of this year, 14 separate
weather-related disasters that each caused at least $1bn in damage hit the US, the Climate Central group has calculated. In total, these events cost
$101bn in damages – lost homes, businesses, highways and other
infrastructure – a toll higher than any other first half of a year since
records on this began in 1980.

Guardian 22nd Oct 2025, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/climate-disasters-2025-cost

October 24, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change, USA