Throughout 2020, I ran this website as a grim but humourous relief from the sense of despair that set in around the world during a globally and unexpectedly awful year. I do not know what the future brings, but I hope things get better, and that this page stands as a small monument to our persistence as a people in the future. 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. [>] 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. [>] March COVID-19 is declared a global pan...