A view of frozen waterfall as temperature drops to minus 15 degrees at night during winter time in Van, Turkiye on January 30, 2025. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Tourists gather at the top of the highest dune of the Sandwich Harbour overlooking the lagoon in the Namib-Naukluft Park, south of Walvis Bay, on January 29, 2025. A renown tourist destination, Sandwich Harbour is an area on the Atlantic coast of Namibia that includes a bay in the north and a lagoon at the southern end. Sandwich Harbour might have been named after an English whaling ship, the Sandwich, which worked during the 1780s, or the name may be a corruption of the German word “sandfische”, a species of shark found in the area. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP Photo)





An ice climber ascends Kinder Downfall, a frozen waterfall in the Peak District National Park, near Hayfield, in north-west England as temperatures in the region plummet on January 10, 2025. Temperatures continue to fall over the coming days, possibly reaching minus 20C in northern parts of the UK on Friday night, the Met Office has forecast. (Photo by Oli Scarff/AFP Photo)





Admiring the scene over the city and river from a high viewpoint in Tromsø, Norway on January 14, 2025. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Visitors enjoy the spectacular landscape of the Death Valley National Park in California, 2024. The area is home to the United States’ lowest point, Badwater Basin, which lies at 282 feet below sea level. (Photo by Story Picture Agency)





People take photos as they look at the view over Damascus city on December 17, 2024 in Damascus, Syria. On December 8, rebel forces in Syria retook the capital and several other cities from longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, who fled the country for Moscow. The fall of the Assad regime marks a new chapter for Syria, which has been mired in a multi-party civil war since 2011, sparked by the Arab Spring uprisings. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)





Ezequiel da Luz, a para-athlete with an amputated leg and no movement in his lower limbs, celebrates reaching the top of Pedra da Gavea, with an organization that aims to increase accessibility in trails, in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, December 18, 2024. (Photo by Lucas Dumphreys/AP Photo)





A woman wades into the waters of Ramirez Beach as part of a ritual honoring the African sea goddess Yemanja, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, February 2, 2025. (Photo by Matilde Campodonico/AP Photo)





Citizens are cheering as they watch the sunrise at Cheonwangbong Peak in Jirisan, Sancheong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do in South Korea on January 1, 2017. (Photo by Park Sang-hoon)





As the first beams of sunlight fall over the favela of Vidigal, a surfer eyes the waves at sunrise on Christmas morning at Ipanema Beach in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Bob Karp/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A skater observes pancakes snow on the frozen Lake des Rousses in Les Rousses, central-eastern France, on January 1, 2025. This phenomenon forms when slushy ice in water clumps into round, pancake-like shapes due to waves or currents. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)





Tourists enjoy the magnificent scenery of the Qicai Danxian scenic area blanketed with snow during the Spring Festival holiday on January 30, 2025 in Zhangye, Gansu Province of China. Danxia is a special landform formed from reddish sandstone. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





People trek through the caverns and snow at Ice Castles in North Woodstock, New Hampshire on February 8, 2025. Founder Brent Christensen, crafted his first icy creation in the front yard of his home to bring happiness and joy to his children. Since 2011, Ice Castles has been dedicated to creating a world of ice caves, frozen waterfalls, and glaciers formed into archways, caverns, slides, and tunnels. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso/AFP Photo)





Lava flows from a crater of the Mount Etna volcano late on February 10, 2025. (Photo by Marco Restivo/Etna Walk via AFP Photo)





A man sits on a concrete seat at Alimos beach near Athens on January 15, 2025. (Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP Photo)