Writing about the environment can be depressing and repetitive, and I am relieved that I have been able to take a break from it this year to focus my attention on biomedicine and health stories. But I have still kept an eye on progress, or lack of it, and can say with confidence that it is still depressing and repetitive. This has been another terrible year for the planet.
The litany of woes is wearily familiar: record temperatures, extreme weather, the continued collapse of…