Students board a USD265 school bus on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 in Wichita, Kan. (Photo by USA Today)





This aerial handout photograph taken and released by India's Uttar Pradesh State Information Department on January 13, 2025 shows Hindu pilgrims taking a holy dip in the sacred waters of Sangam, the confluence of Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers, during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj. Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India bathed in sacred waters as the Kumbh Mela festival opened on January 13, with organisers expecting 400 million people – the world's largest gathering of humanity – to assemble over six weeks. (Photo by India's Uttar Pradesh State Information Department/AFP Photo)





This aerial photograph shows a view of the city Damascus on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Omar Haj Kadour/AFP Photo)





A drone view shows a tractor at a field in Calexico, California, U.S., behind the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, as seen from Mexicali, Mexico on January 14, 2025. (Photo by Victor Medina/Reuters)





Ice surrounds a stranded boat on the Lake Michigan shore in Milwaukee on January 7, 2025. The Chris-Craft Roamer named Deep Thought has been stranded by Bradford Beach since Oct. 13. (Photo by USA Today)





An aerial photograph taken by drone shows a catamaran passing sailboats as it docks at Alimos Marina, south of Athens, Greece, Thursday, January 16, 2025. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)





An aerial view shows homes which burned near two taht survived in the Eaton Fire on January 19, 2025 in Altadena, California. Multiple wildfires which were fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds have burned across Los Angeles County leaving at least 27 dead with over 180,000 people having been under evacuation orders. Over 12,000 structures, many of them homes and businesses, burned in the Palisades and Eaton Fires. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)





Commuters drive through a frozen forest towards the fog covered city of Frankfurt, Germany, on a cold Wednesday, January 22, 2025. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





An aerial view of ancient city of Metropolis, which was used as a “scrapyard”, as approximately 2 thousand bronze statue fragments were found in the section in Izmir, Turkiye on January 9, 2025. During the excavations in the ancient city with a history of about 2,300 years, the remains of bronze sculptures were found in the area, which was thought to have been used as a junkyard in ancient times. The sculpture fragments reflect the cultural and belief changes of the period. (Photo by Mahmut Serdar Alakus/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A view shows the Toktogul hydropower plant (HPP) in the Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan on January 21, 2025. (Photo by Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters)





This photo taken on January 12, 2025 shows villagers watching a bullfight to welcome the upcoming Lunar New Year of the Snake in Congjiang County, southwest China's Guizhou province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





In this aerial view sheep graze in a snow covered field on January 09, 2025 in Hassocks, United Kingdom. The Met Office has issued weather warnings as a cold snap sweeps across the UK, bringing freezing temperatures and bouts of ice, snow, and rain. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)





A drone view of Britain's ice swimmer Fenwick Ridley during practice at his man-made ice channel in the frozen Sweethope Loughs in Harle, Northumberland, Britain on January 7, 2025. (Photo by Lee Smith/Reuters)





A picture taken with a drone shows a snow-covered deciduous tree plantation near Hajdusamson, northeastern Hungary, 16 January 2025. (Photo by Zsolt Czegledi/EPA)





A Sadhu or a Hindu holy man sits on the banks before taking a holy dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers with the mythical, invisible Saraswati river, during the “Maha Kumbh Mela”, or the Great Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, India, on January 13, 2025. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)