But it hasn’t all been doom and gloom.
From a hyperflexible schoolboy in India, to ancient churches in northern Ethiopia, and face-planting foxes (*snort*) – some amazing things have happened, despite the year’s socio-political meltdowns.
News agency Barcroft Media has put together its best images from the past 12 months, capturing all the incredible (and sometimes slightly bizarre) happenings in our world.Urban explorer’ and photographer Keow Wee Loong, 27, visited four of the towns in the abandoned Fukushima exclusion zoem – Tomioka, Okuma, Namie and Futaba – in June this year. The areas have remained completely untouched since March 2011, when the city was evacuated after the east coast of Japan was devastated by a massive earthquake, followed by a huge tsunami, which led to a nuclear disaster.For the festival of Kartik Brati (also known as Rakher Upobash) in November, thousands of Hindus gathered in Barodi, near Dhaka in Bangladesh, to pray at the Sri Sri Lokenath Brahmachari Ashram temple. The worshippers sit in front of candle light (known locally as Prodip) and concentrate on their prayer. Lokenath Brahmachari – known as Baba Lokenath – was an 18th century Hindu saint and philosopher from Bengal. His devotees pray to him with lights in order to save their loved ones from cholera and pox diseases.Mac Stone, a 32-year-old wildlife and conservation photographer, traded in his heavy tents and ground sheets for a single 1lb hammock – a portable hotel room that he carries around easily while travelling across the US. Here he is nestled into a nice, relaxing tree in Florida.Angela Bohlke won two awards at the Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2016 in November with this photo of a fox diving head-first into the snow. It’s not hard to see why.Scattered around the mountains of Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, are ancient churches that have been carved into the side of jagged rock faces. They are believed to have been built more than a thousand years ago, and have since been a place of worship and study for Orthodox Christians in the region.Aditya Kumar Jangum is a 13-year-old boy from Ratnagiri in Maharashtra, India. He has hypermobility – a condition which, since the age of eight, he has used to his advantage by honing his yoga and contortionist skills, ready to compete to get into the Guinness Book of World Records.Lynea Lattanzio keeps a lot of cats in her house in Parlier, California. A lot. Here she is relaxing with some of them in her living room in December this year.Photographer Kei Nomiyama, 37, captured thousands of dancing fireflies in the Japanese island of Shikoku – creating an amazing enchanted forest. Fireflies produce a ‘cold light’ from their bodies, whcih is a chemically produced light that can shine bright yellow, green or red. The light is created due to a chemical reaction called ‘bioluminescence’, and is thought to be used to attract mates.
Jess, 21, has an impressive collection of babygrows, dummies and sippy cups – but she doesn’t have a baby. All of the infant paraphernalia is sized up for her 5’5″ frame, because she lives as an ‘adult baby’ in Lakeland, Florida. Photographed here in July 2016, she describes living with her boyfriend David, 24, and says wearing nappies and drinking from bottles has done wonders for her self-esteem.Two 80-tonne Southern Right whales were photographed saying ‘hey’ to scuba divers during their yearly migration through South Africa in August. Diving tour operator Rainer Schimpf was lucky enough to capture the moment using aerial photography in Humanus, around 200km east of Cape Town.
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