At 2017's worst, it didn't just feel like everything was on fire. Parts of the world literally were — and still are — burning.
There were fires, floods, storms, earthquakes, droughts, and volcanic eruptions.
Some of the photos of those events gave the past year a very "end of the world" sort of feel.
These are some of the most apocalyptic images we spotted.
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As the Thomas Fire blazed in California, it filled the sky with so much smoke that the sun peeking through took on an orange hue.
A five-year drought in Brazil left cracked ground where water used to fill the Boqueirao reservoir in Paraiba state.
This was just one of at least 41 humpback whales to wash ashore dead on the Eastern Seaboard of the US in an "unusual mortality event" that stretched back to 2016.
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