2025's record heat and disasters highlight urgent climate action needs
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Scientists report that 2025 was one of the three hottest years on record, surpassing the critical 1.5°C warming threshold set by the Paris Agreement, largely due to human activities like burning fossil fuels, leading to severe weather events and increased climate risks worldwide.
- 2025 was so hot it pushed Earth past critical climate change mark, scientists say CBS News
- Cyclones, floods and wildfires among 2025’s costliest climate-related disasters The Guardian
- Unequal evidence and impacts, limits to adaptation: Extreme Weather in 2025 World Weather Attribution
- 2025 Was Another Exceptionally Hot Year Yale E360
- Asia’s year of costly climate disasters spurs calls for ‘decisive action’ South China Morning Post
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