A local resident helps free a car that became stranded in a stretch of flooding road as Tropical Storm Helene strikes, on the outskirts of Boone, North Carolina, U.S. September 27, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Drake/Reuters)

Pictures from Tasmania’s central plateau, shot by wilderness photographer Dan Broun, show the extraordinary damage wrought by more than a week of bushfires following lightning strikes in Australia’s southernmost state on January 13. 2016. The world heritage area was home to a range of unique alpine flora including pencil pines, king billy pines and cushion plants, some more than 1,000 years old. Now more than 10,000ha of land has been incinerated, and ecologist say that, unlike eucalyptus trees, the ancient flora will not recover. (Photo by Dan Broun)

Two dogs sent into outer space by the Soviet Union after their safe return to earth. They spent 22 days in orbit. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images). 22nd March 1966

Yanelis Blanco, 24, center, dances with a group of friends at Santa Maria beach, about 15 miles from Havana. It is the closest beach to Havana. Others, from left to right are Jackson Miranda, 21, Dayan Suarez, 24, and Melisa Oliva, 15. The men in the group have a rap group together. The government is demolishing buildings all over the coast of East Havana and recovering and restoring beach dunes. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)

“In 2009 a monumental underwater museum called “MUSA” (Museo Subacuático de Arte) was formed in the waters surrounding Cancun, Isla Mujeres and Punta Nizuc. The project founded by Jaime Gonzalez Cano of The National Marine Park, Roberto Diaz of The Cancun Nautical Association and Jason deCaires Taylor consists of over 450 permanent life-size sculptures and is one of the largest and most ambitious underwater artificial art attractions in the world”. – UnderwaterSculpture (Photos by Jason deCaires Taylor/Intrepidacious/Kozy and Dan Kitchens)

An American Marine readies to land on Guadalcanal during the five-month struggle for the island between late 1942 and early 1943. Three thousand miles south of Tokyo, Guadalcanal was a major shipping point for military supplies. The Allied victory there in February, 1943, marked a major turning point in the war after a string of Japanese victories in the Pacific. (Photo by Joe Scherschel/Time & Life Pictures)

Birds sit on the back of a zebra in the Nairobi National Park, near Nairobi, Kenya, November 21, 2018. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)

Students run out of their school celebrating their high school graduation at Nacka Gymnasium following the spread of the corona virus disease (COVID-19) in Stockholm, Sweden, June 3, 2020. (Photo by Jessica Gow/TT News Agency via Reuters)