Pyroclastic rock

The second month of 2020 saw numerous environmental disasters that impaired climate change and vice versa, including Storm Ciara across Europe, swarms of locusts in East Africa, deadly avalanches in Turkey, and a volcanic eruption in Japan.

Here is a look at the global environmental disasters during the previous month.

Feb. 3:

A violent volcanic eruption in southern Japan May 29 forced scores of people to evacuate and shot a huge column of ash high into the air.