Here is an incomplete, yet moving and heartbreaking gallery of images of how the climate crisis affected our world this year.
A man walks through a flooded street after heavy rains and bad weather in Lisbon, Portugal, 13 December 2022. The national civil protection appealed to citizens to restrict the maximum displacement due to bad weather in the districts of Lisbon and Setubal. EPA-EFE/ANTONIO PEDRO SANTOS
John Lawrence and Payton Campbell with their children Harlow and Aria inspect a flooded road near their home on March 02, 2022 in Dungay, Northern NSW, Australia. Several northern New South Wales towns had been forced to evacuate as Australia faces unprecedented storms and the worst flooding in a decade.
Sheep graze on the shores of the Vjosa river close to the fields of the village of Anevjose on September 24, 2022 in the district of Tepelene, Albania. The Vjosa is considered as one of Europe’s last wild rivers and is currently threatened by proposals to build more than 3,400 new hydropower plants in the region.
Brenda Brennan sits next to a boat that pushed against her apartment when Hurricane Ian passed through the area on September 29, 2022 in Fort Myers, Florida. The hurricane brought high winds, storm surges and rain to the area causing severe damage. Tourists hold on to a rope in the Oxman cenote on July 16, 2022 in Valladolid, Mexico. The Yucatan Peninsula has the world’s largest underwater cave system, with over 2,400 cenotes. Along with the industrial growth, the Yucatan region experiences a tourism boom due to the end of COVID restrictions and sargassum on the coast. Uncontrolled visitor’s quota threatens limestone ground and water quality.
Villagers gather to collect water from a malfunctioning hand pump on May 20, 2022, in Garhwa village, 60 kms from Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, India. A severe heatwave has caused drought-like conditions in vast swathes of India’s agricultural heartlands from north to south, as the rains that usually arrive before the country’s prolonged monsoon season have so far failed to materialize in many regions.
Park visitors look at a bleached ‘bathtub ring’ that is visible on the banks of Lake Mead near the Hoover Dam on August 19, 2022 in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Arizona. The federal government announced plans to cut water allocations from the Colorado River Basin to Arizona and Nevada for the second year in a row and is asking residents to cut water consumption as the drought worsens.
A picture taken with a drone shows the Yesa reservoir in Yesa, Navarra, Spain, 23 August 2022. The reservoir is currently below 30 percent of its level. EPA-EFE/Jesus Diges Cal Fire firefighters battle the Oak Fire on July 23, 2022 near Mariposa, California. The fast moving Oak Fire burning outside of Yosemite National Park has forced evacuations, charred over 11,500 acres and has destroyed several homes since starting on Friday afternoon. The fire is zero percent contained.
The Milky Way appears over a mountain in the Valle de la Luna in the Atacama Desert, considered the driest place on earth on August 26, 2022 near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. The extreme aridity makes the Atacama Desert one of the clearest places on earth to view the night sky. Much of the region receives less than half an inch of rainfall per year, and some areas none at all for hundreds of years.
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