2020 in review: Nature's scary beautiful wonders

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

Lightning strikes are seen above the skyline of Shanghai's financial district of Pudong, China.

A woman from the Turkana tribe walks through a swarm of desert locusts at the village of Lorengippi near the town of Lodwar, Turkana county, Kenya.

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

Large waves hit the harbor wall at Newhaven, southern Britain.

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

Nancy Allen and Brian Allen stand outside their house as high winds push smoke and ash from the Currowan Fire towards Nowra, New South Wales, Australia.

The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen over the sky near Rovaniemi in Lapland, Finland.

The Comet C/2020 or "Neowise" is seen in the sky behind St Mark's Tower, a 17th-century coastal fortification near the village of Bahar ic-Caghaq, Malta

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

A field of flowers is seen during the annual blossom in Castelluccio, Italy

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

Environmental activist and campaigner Mya-Rose Craig, 18, holds a cardboard sign reading "Youth strike for climate" as she sits on an ice floe in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle.

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

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

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

A farmer burns a sugar cane field at night as local growers try to avoid arrest by authorities, who banned the practice to curb smog, in Suphan Buri province, north of Bangkok, Thailand.

Bioluminescent algae glows in the crashing waves as a lifeguard tower sits on an empty beach during the outbreak of the coronavirus in Encinitas, California.

Residents are silhouetted as they watch the Blue Ridge Fire burning in Yorba Linda, California.

A woman takes a selfie at a salt production site on the bed of a drained area of the Sasyk-Sivash lake near the city of Yevpatoria, Crimea.