1.A langur bounds across a meadow in Yala National Park in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on August 21, 2022.
2.A competitor falls off the "gostra," a pole covered in lard, as he tries to grab the flag during the week-long celebrations of the religious feast of St. Julian, patron of the town of St. Julian's, Malta, on August 20, 2022.
3.Several young men play on a structure submerged in the overflowing Ganges river after monsoon rains in Allahabad, India, on August 25, 2022.
4.An aerial view of a man standing on a the cracked bed of Lake Akgol, dried out due to an ongoing heatwave in the Ozalp district of Turkey's Van, on August 10, 2022.
5.Withered sunflowers stand in a field during an ongoing drought in the region of Rhone-Alps near Lyon in southeastern France, on August 24, 2022.
6.A forest burns during a wildfire near Altura, Spain, on August 19, 2022. As of early August, 43 large wildfires—those affecting at least 1,200 acres—were recorded in Spain by the Ministry for Ecological transition, while the average in previous years was 11.
7.Ukrainian servicemen fire on Russian positions in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on August 24, 2022
8.Dr. Tetiana Myroshnychenko, a neonatologist at Pokrovsk Perinatal Hospital in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, checks on Veronika, a baby born nearly two months prematurely, on August 15, 2022. In Ukraine’s war-torn eastern Donetsk region, only one hospital under government control remains equipped to care for babies born prematurely in government-held areas. Doctors say the stress caused by the war and rapidly worsening living conditions are leading to more frequent birth complications for the area's pregnant women.
9.A dog sits inside a destroyed shopping center, as Russia's attack in Ukraine continues, in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on August 21, 2022.
10.A railway worker stands next to a heavily damaged train after a Russian attack on a train station in the village of Chaplyne, Ukraine, on August 25, 2022.
11.A view of the Crystal Building at Futuroscope theme park in Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, near Poitiers, France, on August 19, 2022
12.People walk at an outdoor market in Hong Kong's Mong Kok area on August 20, 2022.
13.A Hindu devotee falls after breaking a dahi-handi (curd-pot) suspended in the air as a human pyramid collapses beneath him during celebrations of the Janmashtami festival, which marks the birth of Hindu god lord Krishna, in Mumbai, India, on August 19, 2022.
14.An excavator clears an area of forest that will be used for the tracks of the Maya Train in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, on August 2, 2022. Mexico’s ambitious Maya Train project is supposed to bring development to the Yucatan Peninsula, but along the country’s Caribbean coast it is threatening the Indigenous Maya people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help. Photo released on August 22.
15.An aerial view of a fishing boat navigating through a canal in Iraq's receding southern marshes of Chibayish, in Dhi Qar province, on August 23, 2022.
16.Villagers use a boat to cross a waterlogged road caused by floodwaters after a rise in water levels of rivers Yamuna and Ganges following monsoon rains at Badara Sanuti village near Allahabad, India, on August 24, 2022.
17.Stranded people carry their belongings as they wade through a flooded area after heavy monsoon rainfall in the Rajanpur district of Punjab province, Pakistan, on August 25, 2022.
18.A view of the dried-up riverbed of the Jialing river, a tributary of the Yangtze River, in China's southwestern city of Chongqing on August 25, 2022.
19.A view of pagodas on Louxingdun island, which is usually partially submerged under the water of Poyang Lake, which is experiencing low water levels due to a regional drought in Lushan, Jiangxi province, China, on August 24, 2022
20.A mountain goat peers down at hikers below along Hawthorne Peak in Juneau, Alaska, on August 21, 2022.
21.Albert the super bull, weighing 3,042 pounds, is taken for a walk at the Iowa State Fair on August 19, 2022, in Des Moines.
22.Young handlers and their sheep are judged in the main judging rings in West Bay, England, during the Melplash Agricultural Society Show, on August 25, 2022
23.Bryan Rosel and his wife Magdalena Llanque, who met more than a year ago through social media, kiss after getting married during a mass wedding ceremony where fifty couples were wed at the shore of lake Titicaca in the Aymara district of Acora in Puno, Peru, on August 20, 2022.
24.Young women sing during the Ashenda festival in Lalibela, Ethiopia, on August 22, 2022.
25.Migrants wait along a border wall after crossing from Mexico, near Yuma, Arizona, on August 23, 2022.
26.This image provided by NASA shows a false color composite image of Jupiter obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 27, 2022. The planet’s auroras, rings, and some of its small satellites are visible along with background galaxies.
28.Hot air balloons launch in Goreme Historical National Park, east of Nevesehir, in central Turkey's historical Cappadocia region, on August 24, 2022.
29.People rest in hanging hammocks near the "house in the air" in Abejorral, Colombia, on August 20, 2022. The house is an aero hostel located in the Andes mountains, built on a vertical rock about 25 meters high.
30.A giant sculpture of a hand with fingernails painted in the colors of Ukraine's flag, and giving a victory sign, created by artist Jan "Slove" Slovencik, stands outside the Russian embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, on August 24, 2022, commemorating Ukraine's Independence Day.
