December 2024
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Cover: Devastation in Asheville, North Carolina, following the effects of Hurricane Helene, which caused billions of dollars of damage in the Southeast United States and other regions. In this issue’s “2024 State of the Climate Report,” an international team of scientists, led by Oregon State University’s William Ripple and Christopher Wolf, present alarming evidence that climate change is worsening at a dangerous pace. In the report, the authors update 35 annually published “planetary vital signs,” which provide ongoing timeseries of human climate-related activities and climate responses, and discuss the growing frequency of extreme weather events. Photograph: Bill McMannis, via Flickr (CC-BY 2.0).