WMO report: South-West Pacific faces rising risks from ocean warming, marine heatwaves, and sea-level rise

Summary

The State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2025 report, released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), documents that the region experienced its second warmest year on record (behind 2024), with extreme weather causing widespread disruption, economic damage, and loss of life. The deadliest single event was Cyclone Senyar, the first known tropical cyclone in the Strait of Malacca, which impacted over 10 million people in Indonesia and Malaysia and killed more than 1,200. The report highlights that the remaining tropical ice cover in Papua, Indonesia, is now only about 2% of what was observed in 1988. Ocean warming, acidification, marine heatwaves, and sea-level rise are increasingly threatening marine ecosystems, local economies, and vulnerable coastal communities and low-lying island nations across the South-West Pacific.

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