A pink elephant balloon, one of the entries in the Canadian Hot Air Balloon Championships, lands in a field in High River September 27, 2013. The event is a qualifier for the World Hot Air Balloon Championships in Sao Paulo in 2014. (Photo by Mike Sturk/Reuters)

Merit Prize Winner: “A Well Earned Rest in the Sahara”. This photo of Moussa Macher, our Tuareg guide, was taken at the summit of Tin-Merzouga, the largest dune (or erg) in the Tadrat region of the Sahara desert in southern Algeria. Moussa rested while waiting for us to finish our 45-minute struggle to the top. It only took ten minutes of rolling, running, and jumping to get back down. The Tadrat is part of the Tassili N'Ajjer National Park World Heritage area, famous for its red sand and engravings and rock paintings of cattle, elephants, giraffes, and rhinos that lived there when the climate was milder. Photo location: Summit of Tin-Merzouga, Tadrat, Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria. (Photo and caption by Evan Cole/National Geographic Photo Contest)

The Duchess of Cambridge joins Family Action at a Christmas Tree Farm to mark her new patronage, in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, UK, on the 4th December 2019. (Photo by James Whatling/The Mega Agency)

A young farmer harvests water lilies from a canal in Barisal, Bangladesh on October 12, 2019, where the flowers cover the 10,000-acre waterway, to take to nearby markets. (Photo by Azim Khan Ronnie/Caters News Agency)

A Filipino devotee is carried by police officers outside the Quiapo church after she fainted during the Black Nazarene feast day in Manila, Philippines, January 9, 2020. (Photo by Willy Kurniawan/Reuters)

Three-year-old orangutan from Sumatra, Berani, is pictured at the Pairi Daiza wildlife park, zoo and botanical garden in Brugelette, Belgium on August 2, 2019. (Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters)

Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg, Isabelle Axelsson and German Luisa Neubauer take part in a climate strike protest during the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland on January 24, 2020. (Photo by Denis Balibouse/Reuters)

Miguel Toribio, 11, puts a pistol belonging to his father into his belt, before demonstrating newly learnt skills from military-style weapons training, to a Reuters journalist in Ayahualtempa, Mexico, February 3, 2020. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)