- Dry me a river
- A young boy runs through a dried riverbed after flood waters receded in the Indian city of Allahabad. Heavy August rain caused the worst floods in 30 years.
- Fire in the sky
- US heatweaves created perfect conditions for massive forest fire in the summer; this massive pall of smoke was captured at West Fork Complex, Colorado.
- Blue lagoon
- Melting ice creates a pool of water on the Glacial Ice Sheet in Greenland. Warmer temperatures caused increased icemelt in this frozen Nordic island.
- Port in a storm
- The lighthouse at Seaham Harbour, County Durham, is hit by huge waves as a winter storm battered the UK.
- Twister triptych
- These images of a huge tornado were taken from a video as it touched down in Washington, Illinois. A n epic storm led to a series of tornadoes in the US.
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- Dirty old town
- Smog reached record levels in China this year – pollution from cars and industry creating a hazardous cloud so toxic schools were closed.
- Cloud city
- Skyscrapers in London’s financial district loom above morning fog in December, taken from a police helicopter.
- Bolt from the black
- The night sky in Jakarta, Indonesia, is lit up by a flash of lightning, during a storm in June which caused heavy monsoon rains.
- Water torture
- Chinese soldiers run from crashing waves on a seawall in Wenling, in east China’s Zhejiang province, as Typhoon Fitow hit land in October.
- Colour me bad
- Soaring temperatures led Australian scientists to devise a new colour code for hottest readings; those over 52C are shown in purple, as above.
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