Bidding adieu to the year 2024, Down to Earth wraps up the major climate change induced crisis across the globe, in seven minutes.
2024 was a year when breaking heat records became an almost monthly affair. Earth is heating up at an unprecedented level and is slipping into an unchartered path.
With the threat of extinction of species running at an all-time high, 2024 has witnessed vigorous reporting on issues pertaining to wildlife and biodiversity. Threats of a new global pandemic become more realistic with climate change.
There are now greater chances of emergence of new diseases as pathogens hidden beneath ice for centuries are uncovered and inter-species interactions grow with rapid land-use change.