A pair of New Forest Ponies groom each other at sunrise in the New Forest, Hampshire, UK on August 11, 2020. (Photo by Mark Kerton/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Kayapo Indigenous man attends a protest at sunrise as they block highway BR-163 near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, Monday, August 17, 2020. Dozens blocked the major highway in Brazil’s Amazon on Monday to pressure the government for help in protecting them from COVID-19. (Photo by Andre Penner/AP Photo)





Flames and smoke overtake a tree as the LNU Lightning Complex fire continues to spread in Fairfield, California on August 19, 2020. Thousands of people fled their homes in northern California on August 19 as hundreds of fast-moving wildfires spread across the region, burning houses and leading to the death of a helicopter pilot. (Photo by Josh Edelson/AFP Photo)





Aerial view of the Rio-Niteroi bridge over the Guanabara bay as seen from the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 13, 2020. (Photo by Mauro Pimentel/AFP Photo)





Silhouetted against the sunset, visitors are reflected on the glass walls on a rooftop observation deck in Tokyo, on Thursday, August 20, 2020. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)





A fire burns as back burning is used to create a firebreak to stop the progress of a fire at a tract of the Amazon jungle in Apui, Amazonas State, Brazil, August 11, 2020. Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have surged so far in August, outstripping the same period of 2019 and renewing concerns about the forest's destruction. (Photo by Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)





A damaged port area is seen in the aftermath of a massive explosion, in Beirut, Lebanon on August 17, 2020. (Photo by Hannah McKay/Reuters)





People walk past an idol of Hindu God Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, stepping on a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) replica before the start of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, August 21, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A couple stand in the sea during sunset in coastal resort of Ayia Napa in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Saturday, August 22, 2020. Meanwhile, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou has extended until Jan. 15, 2021, a ban on outdoor festivals, concerts and exhibitions in places without seating where social distancing rules can't be enforced. (Photo by Petros Karadjias/AP Photo)





A horse walks towards flames as the LNU Lightning Complex fires tear through Vacaville, Calif., on Wednesday, August 19, 2020. Fire crews across the region scrambled to contain dozens of wildfires sparked by lightning strikes as a statewide heat wave continues. (Photo by Noah Berger/AP Photo)





A Ballet Paraisópolis student wearing a face mask rehearses amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on August 13, 2020 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Ballet Paraisópolis is a project that teaches dance to children and young people in the Paraisópolis community in order to encourage them to seek better life opportunities. Founded in 2012 by ballerina, teacher and choreographer, Monica Tarragó, Ballet Paraisópolis has a total of 200 students and another 2,000 on the waiting list. (Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images)





Farmer Iacovos Tofi, 35, with his horse walk during sunset at Meneou village near southern coastal city of Larnaca in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Monday, August 17, 2020. (Photo by Petros Karadjias/AP Photo)





A participant jumps into the Vltava river during a high diving competition in Prague, Czech Republic, August 22, 2020. (Photo by David W. Cerny/Reuters)





A visitor views a work titled “Murmurations #23: 10,000 selfies (with a pink wall in Los Angeles)” by artist Stephanie Potter Corwin, that forms part of the Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition on show at York Art Gallery in Yorkshire on August 13, 2020. (Photo by Nigel Roddis/LNP)





An elm seed bug flies past a sunflower as the sunsets in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on Thursday, August 20, 2020. (Photo by John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP Photo)