2025 First Half Climate Disasters Break Cost Records
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The first half of 2025 was the most costly on record for US climate-related disasters, totaling $101 billion, driven mainly by wildfires in Los Angeles and severe storms, highlighting the increasing impact of climate change and the effects of policy changes on disaster response capabilities.
- Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows The Guardian
- The federal government used to keep track of extreme weather disasters. Now it’s up to a nonprofit CNN
- In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace The New York Times
- U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Climate Central
- Weather disasters in first half of 2025 were the costliest on record, data shows NBC News
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