3. 1 January 2017: Buildings are seen in fog in Yancheng, Jiangsu province, China Reuters
4. People wearing masks dance at a square among heavy smog during a polluted day in Fuyang, Anhui province, China, January 3. China Daily/via REUTERS
5. A wild horse is herded into corrals by a helicopter during a Bureau of Land Management round-up outside Milford, Utah, January 7. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
6. 4 January 2017: Garden gnomes on a roof are covered in snow in Altenberg, eastern Germany Sebastian Kahnert/AFP
7. Residents and tourists enjoy the sea at Barra da Tijuca beach during a summer day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 15. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
8. 6 January 2017: A man swims in the frozen water of the Trocadero fountain in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris Olivier Morin/AFP
9. 6 January 2017: Emirati men walk with their camels across the desert during the Liwa 2017 Moreeb Dune Festival in Abu Dhabi Karim Sahib/AFP
10. 7 January 2017: A woman walks through Central Park during a snow storm in New York City Stephanie Keith/Reuters
11. 8 January 2017: Snow coats a statue in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin John MacDougall/AFP
12. 8 January 2017: Turkish anti riot police officers patrol around the Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmet) during snowfall in Istanbul Ozan Kose/AFP
13. A man climbs a wall of ice in the city of Liberec, Czech Republic, January 12. REUTERS/David W Cerny
14. 16 January 2017: An aerial view of the shadows of trees along a snowy road near Sieversdorf, eastern Germany Patrick Pleul/AFP
15. A woman pushes a pram as she walks over a frozen lake during sundown at the Pajulahti sports center near Lahti, Finland, February 21. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
16. Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, spews lava as it erupts on the southern island of Sicily, Italy February 28. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello
17. Waves hit a train during heavy seas and high winds in Dawlish in southwest Britain, February 2. REUTERS/Toby Melville
18. 10 February 2017: Some of the hundreds of stranded pilot whales – marked with an 'X' to indicate they have died – are seen after one of the country's largest recorded mass whale strandings,
in Golden Bay, at the top of New Zealand's South Island Anthony Phelps/Reuters
19. Natan Cabral, 5, stands on the cracked ground of the Boqueirao reservoir in the Metropolitan Region of Campina Grande, Paraiba state, Brazil, February 13. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
20. 15 February 2017: A rainbow appears over Gaza City Mohammed Abed/AFP
21. 21 February 2017: Ice and snow cover the moat surrounding the Forbidden City in Beijing Greg Baker/AFP
22. A girl walks amidst a dust storm on the banks of the Ganges river in Allahabad, India, February 24. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash
23. 7 March 2017: The Northern Lights, or Aurora borealis, shimmer across the sky above Unstad, home the world's most northern surf school Olivier Morin/AFP
24. 9 March 2017: A bee pollinates crocuses as spring arrives in London Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
25. 11 March 2017: A seagull holds a cigarette butt in its beak near the Forum in Rome Tiziana Fabi/AFP
26. 13 March 2017: The Josephine Shaw Lowell
Memorial Fountain in Bryant Park in New York
City is covered in ice Timothy A. Clary/AFP
27. A worker of the cavern of Poco Azul (Blue Well) dives to search for belongings dropped by tourists, ahead of World Water Day, in Bahia, Brazil, March 21. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
28. Julia Lu, 5, (L) and Amy Liu, 5, walk through a massive spring wildflower bloom caused by a wet winter in Lake Elsinore, California, March 14. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
29. 16 March 2017: Stars twinkle in the night sky over the treetops of a forest in Frankfurt, western Germany Patrick Pleul/AFP
30. 25 March 2017: Puppies are held up for a photo with cherry blossoms blooming near the Washington Monument in Washington, DC Yuri Gripas/Reuters
31. 27 March 2017: Cherry trees in bloom are seen along a road in Gui'an new district, Guizhou province, China China Daily/Reuters
32. 20 March 2017: A woman crouches down to take a photograph of Giant Tecolote Ranunculus flowers at the Flower Fields in Carlsbad, California Mike Blake/Reuters
33. Polluted water in the river Ganges is seen in Kanpur, India, April 4. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
34. A boat sails during the sunset in the sea of Fortaleza, Brazil, April 23. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker
35. 20 April 2017: An elephant seal pup sits in a pool at the Marine Mammal Centre in Sausalito, California. The rehabilitation centre has seen a surge in orphaned and injured elephant seal pups
following heavy storm activity and rough surf Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
36. 21 April 2017: A man driving a vintage car reacts as he passes thousands of crabs crossing a highway on their way to spawn in the sea in Playa Giron, Cuba Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters
37. 9 April 2017: A man gets sun cream rubbed in by his partner as they relax on the beach on the hottest weekend of the year so far in Brighton, England Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images
38. 22 April 2017: People, cows and vultures pick through a rubbish dump in Guwahati, India, on the occasion of Earth Day Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters
39. 26 April 2017: A bolt of lightning strikes over harbour cranes in Cape Town, South Africa Mike Hutchings/Reuters
40. 3 May 2017: People walk on a hill covered with nemophila flowers (commonly known as baby blue eyes) in full bloom at Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan Kazuhiro
Nogi/AFP
41. 4 May 2017: A Chinese police officer stands guard during a sandstorm over Tiananmen Square in Beijing Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
42. 8 May 2017: Women walk past piles of rubbish on a street in Sanaa during a strike by Yemen's refuse collectors Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
43. 10 May 2017: A narrow body of water reflects the mountains around the drought-stricken Theewaterskloof Dam near Villiersdorp, about 108km from Cape Town, South Africa Rodger
Bosch/AFP
44. 17 May 2017: A woman looks at cows on the Mare e Sol beach in Coti-Chiavari, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, where a herd of some 30 wild cattle take up their summer
residence each yearPascal Pochard-Casabianca/AFP
45. 22 May 2017: A model wears a floral
headdress at the Royal Horticultural
Society's Chelsea Flower show in
London Dylan Martinez/Reuters
46. 4 June 2017: A greater adjutant stork watches as a boy sorts through rubbish at a large dump in Guwahati in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, on the eve of World Environment Day Biju
Boro/AFP
47. 6 June 2017: A visitor runs for cover during a heavy rain shower on Trocadéro square in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris Ludovic Marin/AFP
48. 6 June 2017: People transport their buffaloes through floodwaters to a safer place in Morigaon district, in the northeastern state of Assam, India Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters
49. 7 June 2017: Prince Harry reacts as he greets members of the public as heavy rain falls at Circular Quay in Sydney Jason Reed/Reuters
50. 7 June 2017: Sand artist Marc Treanor creates a work on the North Beach at Tenby Harbour, Pembrokeshire, Wales Rebecca Naden/Reuters
51. 8 June 2017: A girl protects herself from rubbish and dust, whipped up by a gust of wind, in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan Caren Firouz/Reuters
52. 10 June 2017: Kangaroos hop between rows of vines at the Charles Melton vineyard in the Barossa Valley, north of Adelaide in Australia David Gray/Reuters
53. 21 June 2017: A lion burts balloons filled with water on a hot day at an amusement park in Yongin, South Korea Kim Hong-ji/Reuters
54. 27 June 2017: Meerkats eat frozen watermelon to cool off at the Bioparco zoo in Rome, during a heat wave Tiziana Fabi/AFP