Riders from Netherland and Belgium crashes in the women's track cycling madison final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Izu Velodrome in Izu, Japan, on August 6, 2021. (Photo by Matthew Childs/Reuters)

Shanshan He, of China, competes at Women's 1500 -T11 at the Stade de France stadium, during the 2024 Paralympics, Sunday, September 1, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)

Paris 2024 Paralympic Games taekwondo bronze medallist Palesha Goverdhan greets the crowd upon her arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on September 4, 2024. Nepal celebrated on September 4 winning its first-ever Olympic medal, with cheering crowds giving Paralympic taekwondo star Palesha Goverdhan a hero's welcome as she returned home. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)

Among the fish populations that could be harmed by the Xayaburi dam in Laos is the critically endangered Mekong giant catfish, considered by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the world’s largest freshwater fish. The fish, which grows to 650 pounds and about 10 feet long, is only found in the Mekong River. It is migratory, moving between downstream habitats in Cambodia upstream to northern Thailand and Laos each year to spawn. Some experts fear the Xayaburi dam could block the migration and drive the giant catfish to extinction. (Photo by Courtesy of Zeb Hogan/University of Nevada, Reno)

Artists called “Le couple en chocolat” take part in the festival “Statues en Marche” in Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium, July 22, 2018. Living statues are a common sight in many city centres, but it is rare to see such a diverse range of this peculiar form of street art for which performers must keep still for painfully long periods of time to create the desired illusion. (Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters)

An overlay image of 350 photographs shows the circumpolar star and aircraft trails above Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, United Kingdom on January 6, 2022. (Photo by Lee Thomas/The Times)

The head of a Bennett's Wallaby Joey emerges from its mothers' pouch at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster, England on March 19, 2020, where the park still remains open to the public as coronavirus continues to hit the UK. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)

A woman, her hands decorated with traditional henna, prays during Eid al-Fitr prayer at historical Badshahi mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, May 24, 2020. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)