Pictures of the year: Environment

Locals harvest their potatoes as Mount Sinabung spews volcanic ash in Karo, North Sumatra province, Indonesia,more

A coyote stands by the roadside as the spread of coronavirus continues, at Golden Gate Bridge View Vista Pointmore

Lightning strikes are seen above the skyline of Shanghai's financial district of Pudong, China, August 10, 202more

A woman from the Turkana tribe walks through a swarm of desert locusts at the village of Lorengippi near the tmore

Embers are seen from a burning tree during the Glass Fire in St. Helena, California, September 27, 2020. REUTEmore

Large waves hit the harbor wall at Newhaven, southern Britain, February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg leaves after President Donald Trump's speech at the 50th World more

A residential area is shrouded in smog in New Delhi, India, November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

Steve Krofchik of Las Vegas keeps cool with a bottle of ice on his head as the unofficial thermometer reads 13more

Experts at the Observatoire Pelagis examine the bodies of dolphins, which were found dead on beaches, in a colmore

A woman takes a selfie as her friend adjusts her makeup in a pink muhly grass field at a park in Hanam, South more

Horses are seen on Withers Ranch as smoke rises from the Brattain Fire in the Fremont National Forest in Paislmore

Nancy Allen and Brian Allen stand outside their house as high winds push smoke and ash from the Currowan Fire more

The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen over the sky near Rovaniemi in Lapland, Finland, September 25, 2more

Two gas flaring furnaces and a woman walking on sand barriers are reflected in a pool of oil-smeared water at more

The Comet C/2020 or "Neowise" is seen in the sky behind St Mark's Tower, a 17th-century coastal fortification more

Police officers are seen as demonstrators lie in hammocks hanging from trees during a protest against the extemore

A boy walks over a drainage channel littered with heaps of polythene bags on Earth Day in Karachi, Pakistan, Amore

Eugene Boonie, 55, who is from Navajo Nation, fills up his water tank at the livestock water spigot in the Bodmore

A search and rescue team, surrounded by red fire retardant, look for victims under burned residences and vehicmore

Hung Hsin-chieh, a research assistant who works for Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Center, climbs a treemore

The bulk carrier ship MV Wakashio rests on a reef after it ran aground at Riviere des Creoles, Mauritius, in tmore

A helicopter flies over as workers approach a tranquilized rhino before dehorning it in an effort to deter poamore

Icebergs detach from the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, one of the continent's fastest-retreating glaciersmore

Fog surrounds a road in Kvaerndrup on the island of Funen, Denmark, September 22, 2020. Ritzau Scanpix/Michaelmore

A field of flowers is seen during the annual blossom in Castelluccio, Italy, July 6, 2020. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mmore

A man walks on a road blanketed with volcanic ash from the erupting Taal Volcano in Tagaytay, Philippines, Janmore

A surfer gets some air off a wave while surfing after sunset in Cardiff, California, January 7, 2020. REUTERS/more

Ice forms on a house during a blizzard in Hamburg, New York, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Lindsay DeDario

Environmental activist and campaigner Mya-Rose Craig, 18, holds a cardboard sign reading "Youth strike for climore

Guarani Mbya indigenous children play on a fallen tree in an occupied area as they protest against tree cuttinmore

Antelopes graze under a bridge of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line, inside the Nairobi National Park in Nmore

Beachgoers standing on salt formations in the Dead Sea near Ein Bokeq, Israel, August 25, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar more

A full moon rises behind St Michael's Tower on Glastonbury Tor in Glastonbury, England, January 10, 2020. REUTmore

A man sits beside a tent after a snowfall in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, February 25, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Al Sultan

Meltwater flows over the Laohugou No. 12 glacier in the Qilian mountains, Subei Mongol Autonomous County in Gamore

A seagull carries a protective face mask at the port of Dover, Britain, August 11, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Nichollmore

Trees are illuminated by a burning fire below during the CZU Lightning Complex Fire in Boulder Creek, Californmore

A group of chinstrap penguins walk on top of an iceberg floating near Lemaire Channel, Antarctica, February 6,more

A fallen tree lies in an area of the Amazon jungle that was cleared by loggers and farmers near Porto Velho, Rmore

A double rainbow stretches above a woman holding an umbrella and selling snacks along the road in Siaya countymore

Copacabana beach is seen during the coronavirus outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 22, 2020. REUTERS/Rimore

A tanker drops fire retardant as the Bobcat Fire burns near Juniper Hills, California, September 17, 2020. REUmore

A boy fishes at Beirut's seaside Corniche, Lebanon August 13, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

A flooded cemetery is seen from above following a storm in the village of Artesiano, in central Greece, Septemmore

Large white geotextile sheets cover northern Italy's Presena glacier in order to delay snow melting on skiing more

A farmer burns a sugar cane field at night as local growers try to avoid arrest by authorities, who banned themore

Inflated lifting bags are attached to an abandoned fishing net as volunteer divers with the environmental groumore

Floods caused by torrential rain leave debris in Kumamura, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, July 8, 20more

Bioluminescent algae glows in the crashing waves as a lifeguard tower sits on an empty beach during the outbremore

An aerial view shows an acid spill in an area around the Levikhinsky mine in Sverdlovsk region, Russia, July 1more

Residents are silhouetted as they watch the Blue Ridge Fire burning in Yorba Linda, California, October 26, 20more

Italian alpine rescuers climb a frozen waterfall in Malga Ciapela, Italy, February 11, 2020. Twice a month thrmore

The dead body of a stranded fin whale lies on the beach in Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, France, November 16, 2020. Rmore

Smoke rises as the Silverado Fire approaches near Irvine, California, October 26, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Vehicles are submerged at a plot flooded by the Chamelecon River due to heavy rain caused by Storm Iota, in Lamore

A woman takes a selfie at a salt production site on the bed of a drained area of the Sasyk-Sivash lake near thmore

Ash and steam rise from Nishinoshima volcanic island in Japan, January 26, 2020, in this image that combines imore

A child climbs on a Royal Poinciana tree to pluck new blossoms in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Mmore

Toxic blue-green algae blooms on the Baltic Sea coast at Tyreso near Stockholm, Sweden, June 25, 2020. Pontus more