Climate change

2025 was the world's third-warmest year on record, EU scientists say

FILE PHOTO: A firefighter uses a hose as smoke and flames from a wildfire rise in Vilar de Condes, in the province of Ourense in Galicia, Spain, August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File Photo

Commentary

Trump’s Godfather plan for Greenland may be falling into place

US President Donald Trump’s insistence that Denmark hand over Greenland has shades of the incident involving the fictional Corleone family.

Extreme weather caused $288 billion in disaster losses in 2025: Reinsurer Munich Re

Survivor Helen Simare-mare, 48, stands at an area affected by a deadly flash flood in Batang Toru, South Tapanuli, North Sumatra province, Indonesia, December 6, 2025. PHOTO: REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

Australian firefighters warn of ‘high-risk’ bushfire season

Smoke rises from a burning forest on a hillside behind a home near Longwood as bushfires continue to burn under severe fire weather conditions in Victoria on Jan 9.

Ankara city hall says water cuts due to ‘record drought’, not mismanagement

Dam reservoir levels have dropped to 1.12 per cent and taps are being shut off for several hours a day in certain districts on a rotating schedule in Ankara.

Experts say oceans soaked up record heat levels in 2025

The heat that has accumulated in the oceans in 2025 increased by approximately 23 zettajoules – an amount equivalent to nearly four decades of global primary energy consumption.

‘Hectic’ bush fires threaten rural towns in Australian heatwave

A bushfire burning in the Mount Lawson State Park on Jan 6.

US’ exit from key UN climate treaty criticised as self-sabotage

UN climate chief Simon Stiell said the US' decision to withdraw from the UN’s key climate treaty was a "colossal own goal which will leave the US less secure and less prosperous”.

Record wet March in S’pore last year due to monsoon surge; June, November the warmest months

Passers-by walking in the rain at Clementi on Jan 10, 2025.

Trump pulls out of global climate treaty

President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum, pulling the US from the climate pact and 65 other international organisations and treaties

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