| January | - More than 20% of Australia's forest is lost to forest fires.[>]
- World War III is barely averted after US aggression against Iran.[>]
- Africa is plagued by unprecedented locust swarms.[>]
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| February | - The UK withdraws from the European Union.[>]
- Earth breaks all-time records as Antarctic continent heats to 18.3 °C (64.9 °F).[>]
- Anti-Muslim riots erupt in New Delhi, India, leaving dozens dead.[>]
- Li Wenliang, the Chinese doctor who first raised the alarm about a mysterious epidemic, dies of COVID-19.[>]
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| March | - COVID-19 is declared a global pandemic.
Hundreds of Tens of Thousands Over a million die. [>]
- The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are postponed due to COVID-19.[>]
- Global public air traffic comes to a halt, as does international travel.[>]
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| April | - Mecca sits eerily empty, despite Ramadan.[>]
- The Pentagon releases UFO footage.[>]
- White people in the United States riot to get haircuts.[>]
- A wildfire in the forests around Chernobyl causes fallout radiation to spike 20-fold.[>]
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| May | - Eurovision Song Contest is cancelled.[>]
- Those locusts from before now sweep India and Pakistan.[>]
- In the United States, the murder of George Floyd by police sparks global protests & riots.[>]
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| June | - A new Ebola outbreak was declared in Mbandaka, Congo, where no cases had been found since 2018.[>]
- Global warming causes 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel to spill in Russia, turning Arctic river red. [>]
- First deadly clash in border dispute between India & China in over 40 years.[>]
- Arctic Circle joins Antarctic Circle in setting new heat records this year, at 37.7 °C (100 °F).[>]
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| July |
- China claims controversial & secretive Hong Kong law won't limit freedoms, limits freedoms.[>]
- Unusually heavy monsoon rainfall and flooding displaces millions of people across Asia.[>]
- Scammers hack Twitter & post a Bitcoin scam from major accounts, stealing $110,000.[>]
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| August | - 2700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate explode, leveling large parts of Beirut, Lebanon.[>]
- Oil spill threatens endangered rare flora and fauna near Mauritian reefs.[>]
- Belarus protests against state violence & censorship met with state violence & censorship.[>]
- U.S. prison slave labourers too busy dying of COVID-19 to fight rampant forest fires.[>]
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| September |
- Climate fires turns sky red & grey amidst global climate fires.[>]
- Severe floods displace half a million in an already ravaged Sudan. [>]
- Refugee camp with 3.000 migrants capacity burns down, 13.000 migrants affected.[>]
- Azerbaijan and Armenia go to war over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.[>]
| October |
- Egypt calls 2020's bluff, opens 2600 year-old coffins. [>]
- COVID-19 sets new one-day rise in global cases record. [>]
- Protesters against Nigerian police violence are massacred by military. [>]
- Near Saint-Louise, Senegal, 140 migrants drown in deadliest shipwreck of 2020.[>]
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| November |
- Exterminated Danish mink with COVID-19 mutation rise from mass graves. [>]
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| December |
- The Arecibo Observatory, a symbol of scientific achievement & progress, collapses. [>]
- As climate catastrophy worsens, capitalism comes for the water. [>]
- Unknown assailants kidnap 330 children from their north-Nigerian school. [>]
- COVID-19 reaches final continent, completes world map. [>]
- Airport explosion upon arrival of war-ravaged Yemen's newly formed government. [>]
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