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A Year on Planet Earth — Part 2

The second installment in a review of Earth's over-heated, storm-tossed but also beauty-filled year.

A fire cloud erupts above Oregon's Falls Fire on July 15, 2024. The Western United States and Canada were plagued by intense, fast-spreading wildfires during 2024 — part of a long-term trend linked to climate change.Credit: InciWeb

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It really has been a drama-filled year for our home planet.

With relentless, record-setting global heating, rampaging wildfires, and extreme storms, we've had ample reason to be seriously concerned about the future. But other events, have amazed us with great beauty and displays of creative energy. Among them were awesome volcanic eruptions of lava in Iceland and Hawaii, as well as mind-boggling eruptions of plasma from the Sun that caused dazzling displays of the Northern Lights.

During 2024, I've tried to keep pace with these events by using compelling imagery to tell their stories. Now, at year's end, I thought it would be revealing to do a recap featuring some of that imagery in a three-part series. Please check out the first part here. In Part 1, I document events from early in the year through the spring. Here, I take things through the fall. And you can find the ...

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