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Thousands of earthquakes occur every day. Most are too minor to feel but strong earthquakes can cause massive destruction—like this bridge that collapsed in Taiwan after an magnitude 6.8 earthquake in September 2022 caused severe damage across the country.

On August 29, 2022, at the al-Shati camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, a boy pedals past a mural depicting a virus and a message urging people to take preventive measures against COVID-19.

Luca Rizzotti regulates the flooding of his rice paddy in Novara, Italy, on June 23, 2002. He's trying to save at least part of the crop from drought. Lack of rainfall has required farmers to sacrifice part of their rice crops to rescue some.

Swimmers wade in the Irish Sea near Baily Lighthouse in Howth, just east of Dublin.

An elderly man receives the Covid-19 vaccine in Kuala Lumpur on June 7, 2021.

Masses of rotting seaweed blanket the Fundadores Park beach in Mexico’s Playa del Carmen region on July 4, 2021. Called sargassum, the macroalgae is washing up on Caribbean beaches every spring and summer, bringing ecological problems and hurting the tourism economy.

People desperate to be evacuated after the Taliban takeover try to scale the walls surrounding Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021.

A window of a damaged house in the Geitawi neighbourhood of Beirut, Lebanon, frames a view of the city’s port, where a massive explosion on August 4 killed at least 191 people and damaged more than 6,000 buildings.

Venetians dress as plague doctors to celebrate the city's Carnival. This year, the last two days of the event were cancelled due to concerns regarding coronavirus.

On August 21, 2013, a suspected chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta left hundreds of people dead.