It seems every year lately is a world-beater. As in, the violent kind of “beating”: we’ve seen new record high temperatures again and again and again ; groundwater is disappearing faster than ever before ; and ever-increasing numbers of people are being exposed to wildfires and deadly pollution . The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Overall, we’re basically running out of planetary health measures to break at this point. And yet, news from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) this week shows that we’ve done it again, with 2024 seeing the Earth’s atmosphere filled with record high levels of carbon dioxide.

“The latest analysis of observations from the WMO Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) in situ observation

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