Global Compound Weather and Climate Events in 2025: a retrospective review

This podcast examines the devastating global impacts of compound climate events throughout 2025, categorising them into specific typologies such as spatial, temporal, and preconditioned interactions. We highlight how overlapping hazards, such as wildfires in Canada and catastrophic flooding in Mexico, resulted in damage that far exceeded the effects of isolated weather incidents. Key case studies illustrate how pre-existing environmental conditions, like extreme droughts or saturated soils, significantly amplified the lethality of subsequent storms and heatwaves. Beyond terrestrial disasters, the text notes severe ecological disruptions, including record-breaking coral bleaching in Australia and agricultural failures in Türkiye. Ultimately, the research advocates for integrated adaptation strategies that account for the increasingly complex and nonlinear nature of modern climate risks. These findings suggest that traditional disaster modelling must evolve to address the cascading vulnerabilities created by multiple concurrent hazards.

The podcast draws on research from the Climate Risk Lab: Raymond et al. Compound weather and climate events in 2025. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-026-00797-9

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