Pictures of the Year: Environment
Icebergs are seen at the mouth of the Jakobshavn ice fjord during sunset near Ilulissat, Greenland, September more
A woman climbs a hill with a child to see the Cumbre Vieja volcano as it continues to erupt in Tacande de Arrimore
A woman walks through chunks of ice on the frozen Kapchagay reservoir outside Almaty, Kazakhstan January 14. Rmore
The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen over the sky in Enontekio in Lapland, Finland January 25. REUTERmore
A firefighter works as the Caldor Fire burns in Grizzly Flats, California, August 22. REUTERS/Fred Greaves
A man tries to chase away a swarm of desert locusts away from a farm, near the town of Rumuruti, Kenya, Februamore
Sea-surface-cleaning vessels and barrier-laying boats of Istanbul Municipality clean up the sea snot, a thick more
Goats graze as others gather in the shade of a tree to avoid the sun, as the summer's first heatwave hits Spaimore
4-year-old Nina Gomes, who was named as the youngest "Green Agent" by the Municipal Urban Cleaning Company (COmore
Low water levels due to drought are seen in the Hoover Dam reservoir of Lake Mead near Las Vegas, Nevada, Junemore
An injured turtle recovers in a tank after volunteers cleaned its wounds, at the Marine Fauna Rehabilitation Cmore
A soldier throws water out of a house, following heavy rainfalls, in Bad Muenstereifel, North Rhine-Westphaliamore
A bee flies over a cosmos flower at a park in Seoul, South Korea, September 13. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
Glaciologists Andrea Fischer and Martin Stocker-Waldhuber, from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, explore a namore
The Windy Fire burns in Sequoia National Forest near California Hot Springs, California, September 24. REUTERSmore
A giant sequoia is seen after surviving the Windy Fire during a tour of the Trail of 100 Giants, also known asmore
Icebergs are seen at Jakobshavn ice fjord near Ilulissat, Greenland, September 16. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
A turtle swims after an ocean cleaning by Sea Shepherd NGO volunteers to remove garbage at Ancora island in Bumore
A forest fire burns near the town of Manavgat, east of the resort city of Antalya, Turkey, July 29. REUTERS/Kamore
Wild Asian elephants lie on the ground and rest in Jinning district of Kunming, Yunnan province, China June 7.more
A tourist poses for a picture on the Bogdanovich glacier located in the Tian Shan mountain range near Almaty, more
People feed swans on the bank of a water reservoir of the Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant (KhNPP) near the tomore
Large streams of red hot lava flow as Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, continues to erupt, as seen frmore
A flock of birds flies at the Taal Volcano island, a year after the volcano erupted, in Batangas province, Phimore
A view shows a partially collapsed building, as the area was hit by flash floods that swept through towns in tmore
Cows that were stranded in a flooded barn are rescued by a group of people after rainstorms lashed the westernmore
A deer statue is silhouetted at Loch Faskally in Pitlochry, Scotland, Britain, November 9. REUTERS/Russell Chemore
Monarch butterflies rest on a tree at El Rosario sanctuary, in El Rosario, in Michoacan state, Mexico Februarymore
Flood-affected areas are seen from a helicopter in the Windsor area near Sydney, Australia, March 24. Lukas Comore
Visitors ride a boat next to blooming cherry blossoms at Chidorigafuchi Park in Tokyo, Japan, March 27. REUTERmore
Steve Robbins leads his sled dog team across a frozen lake after helping at a vaccination site in Eagle, Alaskmore
Lava oozes from a new fissure near Fagradalsfjall, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland April 9. REUTERS/Cat Gundry-Bemore
A horse crosses a water-logged road after rains ahead of Cyclone Yaas at Digha in Purba Medinipur district in more
A man works to retrieve belongings from a house partially submerged in mud after the area was hit by flash flomore
Abandoned fishing nets cover a coral reef in a protected area of Ko Losin, where a group of volunteer divers amore
Blossomed peach trees are seen on a field in Veria, Greece, March 17. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
The Cumbre Vieja volcano continues to erupt, as seen from El Paso, on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, Ocmore
43-year-old Lana, a tourist from North Carolina poses for a picture holding an umbrella at Badwater Basin, themore
The Dixie Fire, now over 200,000 acres, burns at night in Taylorsville, California, July 27. REUTERS/David Swmore
A hiker walks up to the Moleson summit during a cloud inversion in Gruyeres, Switzerland August 25. REUTERS/Demore
An American flag hangs on the Old Stone Church, built in 1891, originally part of a town lost in the creation more
Fall leaves are seen in the tree-lined Catoctin Mountain Park near the Camp David U.S. presidential retreat, imore
Police officers block a road as lava rises following the eruption of a volcano on the Island of La Palma, in Tmore
The Rhone Glacier and the source of the Rhone river are seen on an autumn day in Obergoms, Switzerland, Octobemore
A herd of endangered Przewalski's horses graze on a meadow inside of a breeding enclosure in Prague, Czech Repmore
Protection material preventing the ice from melting is pictured on the Rhone glacier in Obergoms, Switzerland,more
An iceberg is seen at the Disko Bay near Ilulissat, Greenland, September 16. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
Ice floats in front of the Eqi glacier in the north of Ilulissat, Greenland, September 15. REUTERS/Hannibal Hamore
The French Fire burns in the Sequoia National Forest near Lake Isabella, California, August 26. REUTERS/David more
A firefighter extinguishes a forest fire near the town of Manavgat, east of the resort city of Antalya, Turkeymore
A car drives past a damaged road, after the earthquake that took place on August 14th, in Marceline, near Les more
Flames from the Caldor Fire burn through the Eldorado National Forest near Kyburz, California, August 21. REUmore
Members of Mexican rescue team, known as "Topos", take a break as a backhoe loader removes the rubble of a colmore
A ship is seen after it has been grounded on the shores of the Marmara Sea in Istanbul's Maltepe district aftemore
A smoke column rises from a fire in a factory in Santiago, Chile, November 29. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
People enjoy a walk through the woods after the first snow hits the Feldberg (Taunus) mountain in Schmitten nemore
2018 champion Joar Leifseth Ulsom, a native Norwegian who lives full time in Alaska, mushes across Finger Lakemore
A Sri Lankan navy member walks past the sacks of collected debris washed to a beach from the MV X-Press Pearl more
A home surrounded by floodwaters in the Yarrow neighbourhood after rainstorms caused flooding and landslides imore
People enjoy a sunny autumn day in a public park in Vienna, Austria October 29. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
A swarm of desert locusts fly next to a herd of zebras near the town of Rumuruti, Kenya, January 31. REUTERS/Bmore
Icebergs are seen in front of a sunset at the Disko Bay close to Ilulissat, Greenland, September 14. REUTERS/Hmore
Deer jump a guardrail as the French Fire burns in the Sequoia National Forest near Lake Isabella, California, more
Water droppers battle an out of control forest fire after the city of Prince Albert declared a state of emergemore
A swollen creek flows under a washed-out bridge at the Carolin Mine interchange with Coquihalla Highway 5 aftemore
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