Photos of the Week: 8/12–8/18
The removal of Confederate statues in Baltimore, big waves in Brazil, the World Jousting Championships in Australia, daily exercise at a pig farm in China, and much more.
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George Frey / Getty Inside the Dugway Proving Ground
George Frey, Getty images photographer, recently had the opportunity to visit the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground, a sprawling top-secret military facility in the Utah desert.
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Tauseef Mustafa / AFP / Getty Photos: One Week in India
India celebrated its 70th Independence Day on August 15, during a busy week across the nation.
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Scott Olson / Getty Vigils, Marches, and Memorials After Charlottesville
In squares and streets across the United States, vigils and marches were held this weekend in response to the hatred and violence on display during a rally in Charlottesville on Saturday.
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Roberto Schmidt / AFP / Getty World Elephant Day
Since 2011, August 12 has been set aside as World Elephant Day, supported by numerous conservation agencies as a day to “spread awareness, share knowledge, and provide solutions for better care and management of both captive and wild elephants.”
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Boris Grdanoski / AP Photos of the Week: 8/5–8/11
A trip through Geirangerfjord in Norway, an earthquake in China, a submerged monastery in Russia, contentious elections in Kenya, and much more.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech Voyager's 40th Anniversary
In August of 1977, the first of two identical robotic probes was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, bound for our outermost planets and beyond.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Closing Down a Notorious Heroin Camp in Philadelphia
Earlier this year, photographers visited Kensington in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to photograph “El Campamento”, one of the largest open-air drug markets and shooting galleries on the East Coast, before it was shut down.
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Wang He / Getty Upgrading the Power Grid in Remote Tibet
In Tibet’s Hengduan Mountains, workers are hauling thousands of parts over challenging terrain by mule and by hand to build the Tibet Electric Power Networking Project.
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Natalie Thomas / Reuters Photos of the Week: 7/29–8/4
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, an election in Kenya, the launch of a Soyuz rocket in Kazakhstan, elementary school sumo wrestlers in Japan, and much more.
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters The Marble of Michelangelo's Dreams
High in the Apuan Alps of Tuscany sits Monte Altissimo, climbed by Michelangelo in 1517, where the artist found “the marble of his dreams.”
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Kristina Barker A Reservation, Restored
The young leaders of Pine Ridge Reservation are confronting generational poverty, trauma, and cultural disconnection and using educational attainment as key to reclaiming Native identity and culture.
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Rodney Bursiel / National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest Winners of the 2017 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest
The results of the annual photo competition are now in.
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Matjaz Krivic / Getty Beauty and Color: Scenes From Ethiopia
Ethiopia is home to more than 100 million people and is composed of wildly varying landscapes and an incredible diversity of ethnic and religious groups.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Reuters The Best of Cassini—13 Years in Orbit Around Saturn
This September, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will take its final measurements and images as it plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere at 77,000 miles per hour, burning up high above the cloud tops.
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