Photos of the Week: Sun Biter, Solar Probe, Belgian Bovines
Flowers carpet Brussels, a farewell is bid to Aretha Franklin, abandoned share bikes find homes in Germany, a cardboard Viking church collapses in Liverpool, a bridge collapses in Italy, and much more.
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Walter Iooss. Jr. / Getty Photos: The Queen of Soul's Amazing Career
A collection of images of Aretha Franklin’s incredible life of performance, spanning the past five decades.
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Fiona Goodall / Getty for Lumix A Visit to Tuvalu, Surrounded by the Rising Pacific
Fiona Goodall, a photographer working with Getty Images, recently visited the tiny South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, a country battling rising sea levels with limited resources.
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Peter Morgan / Reuters Photos: 15 Years Since the 2003 Northeast Blackout
On August 14, 2003, more than 50 million people across eight U.S. states and parts of Canada were left without power for days in the most widespread blackout in North American history.
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FTCS (SS) Bob Nguyen / U.S. Navy Photos of the Week: Robot Cat, Purple Water, Tunnel of Love
Missiles fly between Israel and Gaza, dizzying views in Hong Kong, a migrant family is reunited in Guatemala, a boisterous rodeo in Australia, wildfires intensify in California, and much more.
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Tatan Syuflana / AP Images From the Lombok Island Earthquake
On the Indonesian island of Lombok, near Bali, at least 250 deaths and many hundreds of injuries have been reported, and tens of thousands have been left homeless.
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Bettmann / Getty Historic Cat Photos on International Cat Day
Fashions and technologies may change over time, but cats never go out of style.
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Vadim Razumov / Wikipedia Photos of Abandoned Russia
For years, photographers have traveled across Russia finding and photographing intriguing ghost towns, empty Soviet factories, toppling houses, and crumbling churches.
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Regis Duvignau / Reuters Photos: Trying to Keep Cool
Recent images of people and animals doing what they can to beat the heat.
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Inti Ocon / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: Proud Walrus, Irate Elephant, Jovian Clouds
A lunar eclipse observed from Brazil, cliffside movie viewing in Norway, a fridge filled with felt sodas in California, a “flying motorcycle” in China, and much more.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters A 400-Mile Ride to Mark 150 Years of the Fort Laramie Peace Treaty
Stephanie Keith, a photographer with Reuters, accompanied the Fort Laramie treaty riders from Green Grass, South Dakota, to Fort Laramie, Wyoming, commemorating 150 years of the peace treaty between the Sioux Nation and the U.S. government.
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Aly Song / Reuters China Is Still Sorting Through Its Colorful Bike-Share Graveyards
Remember that “Bike-Share Oversupply in China” photo story from March? There were just so many bikes, Chinese cities are still dealing with massive bicycle graveyards.
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Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty Dramatic Photos of the California Wildfires
Dry conditions, high temperatures, and strong winds have once more spawned several large and destructive wildfires across the state of California.
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Toni Frissell / Library of Congress The Works of Photographer Toni Frissell
A collection of images by Toni Frissell, a talented photographer who covered fashion, war, celebrity, and ordinary life from the 1930s to the 1960s.
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Reuters The Bike-Share Oversupply in China: Huge Piles of Abandoned and Broken Bicycles
Gigantic piles of impounded, abandoned, and broken bicycles have become a familiar sight in many Chinese cities, after a rush to build up its new bike-sharing industry vastly overreached.
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