UN Weather Agency Warns of Escalating Climate Extremes Across Caribbean and Latin America
The report says heatwaves, floods and droughts are worsening, with 13,000 heat-related deaths a year across 17 countries, and urges stronger warning systems.
- On Monday, the World Meteorological Organization released its 2025 climate report, warning that extreme weather, rising sea levels, and accelerating glacier loss are intensifying across Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Intense heatwaves pushed temperatures above 40°C across large parts of the region in 2025, while extreme rainfall triggered floods affecting more than 110,000 people in Peru and Ecuador.
- Hurricane Melissa became the first Category 5 storm on record to strike Jamaica in October 2025, causing 45 deaths and US$8.8 billion in economic losses exceeding 41 per cent of the country's GDP.
- Glacier melt in the Andes threatens water security for nearly 90 million people, according to WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo, who warned that recurrent heatwaves strain public health systems across the region.
- The United Nations continues expanding its 'Early Warnings for All' initiative, aiming to ensure every person on Earth is protected by early warning systems by 2027 to mitigate future climate shocks.
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Extreme heat in Latin America reached historic levels during 2025 and left a succession of unprecedented climate events of serious concern to the international scientific community. A new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), released this Monday in Brazil, warns that temperatures are well above average in much of Latin America and the Caribbean, while droughts, floods and extreme weather events associated with climate change in…
UN Weather Agency Warns of Escalating Climate Extremes Across Caribbean and Latin America
A cruise ship docks in Roseau, Dominica. The World Meteorological Organization says parts of the Caribbean are experiencing sea level rise above the global average as climate impacts intensify across the region. Credit: Alison Kentish/IPSBy Alison KentishCASTRIES, Saint Lucia , May 19 2026 (IPS) Faster-than-average sea level rise, intensifying hurricanes, extreme heat and worsening swings between drought and flooding are increasing pressure on L…
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Report reveals that temperatures have exceeded 40 °C in various Brazilian regions and that drought has affected from Amazon to agricultural states such as São Paulo and Goiás.
Record temperatures, historic rainfall, persistent droughts, and retreating glaciers marked the climate of Latin America and the Caribbean in 2025. The WMO warns that these extreme events are already directly impacting millions of people in the region. Drought, extreme heat, glacial retreat, floods, and intense rainfall summarize the most visible face of the climate crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to the WMO, these events ar…
The climate crisis was manifested with intensity in Latin America in 2025, with extreme heat episodes “unprecedented”, temperatures above average, reduction of Andean glaciers and a faster rise in sea levels than the global average in some areas of the region. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations agency, released in Brasilia the report on the state of the climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2025, which highlights …
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Global Diaspora NewsExtreme heat, floods and drought threaten lives across Latin America and Caribbean
Record-breaking temperatures, deadly floods, worsening drought and intensifying hurricanes are placing millions of people across Latin America and the Caribbean at growing risk of hunger, displacement and water shortages, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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