Tourists dressed like astronauts visit Ulan Hada Volcano Geopark on February 13, 2024 in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by Mao Jianjun/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
Pedestrians wear masks as smoke and haze from bushfires in New South Wales blankets the CBD in Sydney, Australia, 10 December 2019. The New South Wales environment department says visibility across east and southwest Sydney was at a “hazardous” level on Tuesday morning, while air quality was poor in southwest Sydney and hazardous in northwest Sydney. (Photo by Steven Saphore/EPA/EFE)
Aerial view of a clear and turbid landscape at the intersection of the Sanjiang Estuary during the flood season on July 4, 2023 in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by Chen Guanyan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
A visitor watches the exhibit “Enchanted: Forest of Light” at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge, California U.S., December 9, 2016. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
Attnedees dressed in Zombie outfits walk down the Gaslamp Quarter outside of the 2015 Comic-Con International in San Diego, California July 8, 2015. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Reuters)
Workers lay out hundreds of bundles of dyed joss sticks to cure in the sun in Hanoi, Vietnam in the last decade of September 2024. They will next be coated with incense powder made from Canarium sap and charcoal. (Photo by Piyush Paul/Solent News)
A baby sloth uses his mother as a hammock while she feasts on papayas in Heredia province in Costa Rica in April 2023. (Photo by William Steele/Solent News)
A “creuseur”, or digger, a plastic lantern on his head, readies to enter a copper and cobalt mine in Kawama, Democratic Republic of Congo on June 8, 2016. Cobalt is used in the batteries for electric cars and mobile phones. Working conditions are dangerous, often with no safety equipment or structural support for the tunnels. The diggers say they are paid on average US$2-3/day. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)