A supporter of South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol attends a rally on a road near the Constitutional Court in Seoul on February 4, 2025, after Yoon arrived at the court for hearings that will decide whether to remove him from office. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)

A tourist is seen at the Caka Salt Lake in Wulan County, northwest China's Qinghai Province, September 4, 2020. (Photo by Zhang Long/Xinhua News Agency)

A man wearing a protective mask poses for a picture with a giant Jade Rabbit installation ahead of celebrations for the Mid-Autumn Festival, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on September 18, 2020. (Photo by Lim Huey Teng/Reuters)

Alex Neal-Bullen during an Adelaide Crows match against Port Adelaide Power at Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, Australia on July 26, 2025. (Photo by Matt Turner/AAP)

Growing cities, overuse of fertilizers and factory wastewater have degraded China's water supplies to the extent that half the nation's rivers and lakes are severely polluted. China aims to spend $850 billion to improve filthy water supplies over the next decade, but even such huge outlays may do little to reverse damage caused by decades of pollution and overuse in Beijing's push for rapid economic growth. Photo: Fishermen row a boat in the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui province, June 19, 2009. (Photo by Jianan Yu/Reuters)

A combination photo shows various popular street foods under $6 from various hawker food stalls and eateries in Singapore, taken between July 28 to 31, 2016. Top row (L to R) bak chor mee, soya sauce chicken; Middle row (L to R) laksa, hokkien mee, nasi lemak, ice kachang; Bottom row (L to R) rojak, roti prata and satay. (Photo by Edgar Su/Reuters)

Honorable Mention: “The Storm”. During I was taking photo with my nephew, the storm came and I caught this beautiful moment. Photo location: Kocaeli, Turkey. (Photo and caption by Aytül Akbaş/National Geographic Photo Contest)

A cheerleader jumps for joy before the start of the Pan-Am Games in Santiago, Chile on October 31, 2023. Thousands of athletes from across the Americas are competing before the Paris Games next year. The International Olympic Committee recognised cheerleading as an Olympic sport in 2021. (Photo by Dylan Martinez/Reuters)