A woman kisses her mother during a New Year's Eve party in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on December 31, 2022. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)

A woman wearing masks, stretches her arms in Hong Kong, Wednesday, February 19, 2020. Russia says it will temporarily ban Chinese nationals from entering the country amid the outbreak of the new virus centered in China that has infected more than 73,000 people. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)

The Northern Lights glow green in a spectacular light show above a field of trees frozen solid with snow. (Photo by Jaak Sarv/Solent News & Photo Agency)

Commended. In late May, about a quarter of a million snow geese arrive from North America to nest on Wrangel Island, in northeastern Russia. They form the world's largest breeding colony of snow geese. Photographer Sergey Gorshkov spent two months on the remote island photographing the unfolding dramas. Arctic foxes take advantage of the abundance of eggs, caching surplus eggs for leaner times. But a goose (here the gander) is easily a match for a fox, which must rely on speed and guile to steal eggs. “The battles were fairly equal”, notes Sergey, “and I only saw a fox succeed in grabbing an egg on a couple of occasions, despite many attempts”. Surprisingly, “the geese lacked any sense of community spirit”, he adds, “and never reacted when a fox harassed a neighboring pair nesting close by”. (Photo by Sergey Gorshkov/Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer)

A view of the start of the 37th Gotland Grand National motocross race in Visby, Sweden on October 24, 2020. (Photo by Soren Andersson/TT News Agency via Reuters)

A camel is pictured in front of the Saturn tracking complex at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 9, 2018. An astronaut and cosmonaut are due to travel to the ISS on October 11 aboard a Russian Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)

High-rise buildings are partly covered by heavy fog at Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour Monday, March 20, 2017. Fog blanketing Hong Kong is common in springtime and may greatly affect shipping and aviation. (Photo by Vincent Yu/AP Photo)

Mr Lordi aka Tomi Petteri Putaansuu of the Finnish hard rock band Lordi gets the second jab of his Covid-19 vaccination from nurse Paula Ylitalo (R) in Rovaniemi, Finland, on August 1, 2021, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Jouni Porsanger/Lehtikuva/AFP Photo)