New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- The first generation of the 21st century is enduring a much warmer planet noted the State of India's Environment 2025 released by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and Down To Earth (DTE) Magazine on February 26, 2025.

"For the first generation of the 21st century - Generation Alpha - it is an inheritance of profound loss. For their predecessors, climate change has been an unfolding planetary emergency. But Generation Alpha - which will comprise an estimated two billion people by 2025, making it the largest generation in history - is enduring a climatologically changed, warmer planet," the report's authors wrote.

The report quoted the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, which says that 2024 w...