Los Angeles fires, Hurricane Melissa, Gaza famine: Wars, climate disasters and global crises that defined 2025

2025 was defined by climate disasters, as wars and extreme weather displaced millions worldwide and California wildfires caused widespread devastation.

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Electrical poles are down as a man bikes through the destroyed neighborood of North Street following the passage of Hurricane Melissa, in Black River, Jamaica on October 29, 2025. (AFP)

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A displaces Palestinian woman cooks food on a fire at a tent amid makeshift shelters as the region experiences cold winter conditions in Al-Mawasi refuge camp in the southern Gaza Strip on December 29, 2025. (AFP)

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Displaces palestinians walk near tents and makeshift shelters as the region experiences cold winter conditions in Al-Mawasi refuge camp in the southern Gaza Strip on December 29, 2025.  (AFP)

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Cars are submerged in mud following Hurricane Melissa in Petit-Goave, 68km southwest of Port-au-Prince, on October 30, 2025. (AFP)

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Ukrainian military medics attend a pottery class at the RePower programme, a mountain retreat designed to support their psychological recovery and mental well-being in Ukraine's western Zakarpattia region on October 24, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  (AFP)

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Protesters take part in a march organised by civil society groups in South Kivu to demand peace and the organization of a dialogue in Bukavu on December 23, 2025. After seizing the major cities of Goma and Bukavu early this year, fighters from the Rwanda-backed M23 group captured Uvira near the border with Burundi on December 10.  (AFP)

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Survivors walk past the wreckage of a car at an area affected by flash flooding in the aftermath of Cyclone Senyar in Aceh Tamiang, on Sumatra Island, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025.  (AP)

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A woman burns grass to keep warm in a refugee camp after evacuation, amid deadly clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along a disputed border area, in Srei Snam, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, December 10, 2025. (REUTERS)