A boat carrying migrants is stranded in the Strait of Gibraltar before they are rescued by the Spanish Guardia Civil and the Salvamento Marítimo sea search and rescue agency on Sept. 8.

A neighborhood devastated by wildfires in Paradise, California, on Nov. 15.

A surfer walks out of the water in Flakstad, northern Norway, within the Arctic Circle, on Sept. 26.

Two farmers dry corn during harvest in Tancheng in China’s eastern Shandong province on Aug. 30.

Chinese fishermen float next to a photovoltaic power station built atop fish ponds in Yangzhou in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on Nov. 14.

Destroyed houses and debris cover fields following the earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Oct. 4.

Indonesian soldiers bury earthquake victims in a mass grave in Poboya in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province on Oct. 2.

Honduran migrants crowd a truck as they head through Huixtla, in Chiapas state, Mexico, en route to the United States on Oct. 22.

Burned vehicles are piled up after a storm surge and strong winds from Typhoon Jebi in Nishinomiya, Japan, on Sept. 5.

A Malian worker pours water on sun-dried bricks made from river sand at a factory in Bamako on Oct. 9.

Rescue workers and locals attempt to save a stranded whale in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on April 9. The whale died despite their efforts.

Boats rest on the dried bed of the Brenet Lake section of the Doubs River, a natural border between eastern France and western Switzerland, on Sept. 20. Upstream, the river dried up due to geological faults that empty the river, accented by a rainless summer.

Cindy McCain, the wife of the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, stands over his casket as he lies in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington on Aug. 31.

A steeple rests next to the Elah Baptist Church after being blown off by the strong winds of Hurricane Florence in Leland, North Carolina, on Sept. 16.

Workers harvest cranberries at the Polesskie Zhuraviny state farm in the village of Selishche, south of Minsk, Belarus, on Oct. 19.

Yana Nestsiarava of Belarus dives from a platform during the first day of competition of the seventh and final stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at Polignano a Mare, Italy, on Sept. 22.

Steam plumes rise as lava hits the Pacific Ocean after flowing from a Kilauea volcano fissure on Hawaii’s Big Island near Pahoa on May 21.

A farmer plows a field in Danzhai in China’s southwestern Guizhou province on Oct. 8.

Honduran migrants rest on a basketball court in San Pedro Tapanatepec, southern Mexico, during their trip toward the United States on Oct. 28.

Disinfectant is released over Palu, Indonesia, on Oct. 14 in an attempt to sterilize the area affected by liquefaction in the Sept. 28 earthquake, where thousands were still feared buried.

Demonstrators hold letters during a pro-independence rally in Barcelona marking the National Day of Catalonia on Sept. 11.

A man swims in a partly frozen lake in Shenyang in China’s northeastern Liaoning province on Dec. 10.

Cracks stop traffic on Vine Road, south of Wasilla, Alaska, after earthquakes on Nov. 30. Back-to-back quakes measuring magnitude 7.0 and 5.7 shattered highways and rocked buildings in Anchorage and the surrounding area, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning for islands and coastal areas south of the city.

A car drives past steel pipes stacked ahead of construction of the Eugal natural gas pipeline at Rietzneuendorf-Staakow near Golssen, Germany, on Aug. 29.

People take part in a fishing competition in Sihong County, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province, on Aug. 29.

Thousands of abandoned shared bicycles line a lot in Shanghai on May 10.

Autumn colors the trees in a field in Vinnum, Germany, on Nov 13.

Indian laborers pull a pontoon buoy with a rope in the Ganges as they build a floating bridge over the river for the upcoming Kumbh Mela festival, in Allahabad, on Oct. 24. The festival will see millions of Hindu devotees gather from Jan. 15, 2019, to March 4, 2019, to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings.

The interior of Rio de Janeiro’s treasured National Museum, one of Brazil’s oldest, is exposed on Sept. 3, a day after a massive fire ripped through the building and its artifacts.

Lush vegetation engulfs an abandoned village in Houtouwan on Shengshan Island, in China’s eastern Zhejiang province, on May 31.

A wooden jetty is surrounded by melting sea ice in the islands of Merenkurkku (Kvarken) near Vaasa, western Finland, at the beginning of spring, on April 25.

Muslims attend a prayer service to celebrate Eid al-Adha in Labuhan Lombok village, Indonesia, on Aug. 22.

A giant land art fresco by French artist Saype in Geneva appears three-dimensional from above on Sept. 17. The work shows a little girl dropping an origami boat into Lake Geneva and was painted to support the cause of the nongovernmental organization SOS Méditerranée, which specializes in the rescue of migrants at sea.