In 2025, the United States crossed a stark new climate threshold.

Twenty-three separate weather and climate-related disasters each caused more than $1 billion in damage, together costing around $115 billion and killing at least 276 people. All this happened in a year without a single hurricane making landfall in the U.S.

The latest data shows these years are no longer an exception, but part of an ongoing pattern of record-high climate damage, forcing scientists and policymakers to confront difficult questions — including whether some communities can safely remain where they are.

CGTN’s Ediz Tiyansan reports.

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