A detail from a sculpture by the artist Ivan Lovatt, named Men of the North, at the 18th Swell Sculpture Festival on Currumbin Beach in Currumbin, Australia, on September 16, 2020. The sculpture festival is an outdoor exhibition that showcases works by local, national, and international artists. #

A participant in a traditional costume, wearing a face mask, attends a rehearsal for Garba, a folk dance, ahead of Navratri, a festival during which devotees worship the Hindu goddess Durga in Ahmedabad, India, on September 12, 2020. #

A firefighter checks for hot spots in a landscape completely charred by the Almeda Fire along Highway 99 in Talent, Oregon, on September 15, 2020. City leaders estimate at least 600 homes were lost in the fire as it burned through Talent and Phoenix. #

Nicole West, part of the Hillbilly Brigade of some 1,200 men and women who spontaneously came together to fight fires, operates a bulldozer during the aftermath of the Riverside Fire near Molalla, Oregon, on September 16, 2020. #

Opposition supporters stand in front of law enforcement officers blocking the street during a rally to protest against the presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, on September 13, 2020. The Belarusian strongman, Alexander Lukashenko, has been in power for 26 years. He vowed that he will not give up power to the opposition, which claims its candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was the rightful winner of the August 9 election. #

A doctor, dressed in full protective gear, is silhouetted against a window while he attends to a patient in the intensive-care unit designated for people infected with COVID-19, at the Posadas Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 17, 2020. #

Cars and a motorcycle are swamped by floodwater in Pensacola, Florida, on September 16, 2020. Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rainfall. #

An art installation called No New Worlds stands in Plymouth, England, as part of the Mayflower 400 commemorations, on September 16, 2020, marking the 400th anniversary of the departure of the Mayflower from Plymouth. #

A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton named Stan is on display during a press preview at Christie's Rockefeller Center on September 15, 2020, in New York City. The skeleton of the 40-foot dinosaur, one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever found, will be auctioned in New York next month and could set a record for a sale of its kind. Discovered in 1987 near Buffalo, South Dakota, the 188-bone skeleton took more than three years to excavate and reconstruct by paleontologists from the state's Black Hills Geological Research Institute, where it has been exhibited since. #

Sebastiao Baldi Silva Junior, a farmworker, attempts to put out a fire on a ranch in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Brazil, on August 26, 2020. #

A jaguar crouches on an area recently scorched by wildfires at the Encontro das Aguas Park in the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Brazil, on September 13, 2020. Firefighters, troops, and volunteers have been scrambling to find and rescue jaguars and other animals before they are overtaken by the flames, which have been exacerbated by the worst drought in 47 years, strong winds and temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius. #

Shirley Paiva holds her new pet dog, Chiara, which she chose from an animal city shelter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 11, 2020. After seeing the number of adoptions go down to zero at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the city shelter is celebrating the success of its pet-delivery program. Administrators running the animal shelter are now offering adoptions through a virtual system that allows prospective owners to browse online. After a pet is chosen, the shelter brings the animal to its new home, bathed, spayed, and vaccinated. #

Makeshift homes are seen in a squatters camp in Guernica, Argentina, on September 14, 2020. A court has ordered the eviction of families who have been squatting there since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. #

A view of the Tower of the Virgin in the Sagrada Familia, taken in Barcelona, Spain, on September 16, 2020. The long-awaited completion of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia will no longer happen in 2026, because the coronavirus pandemic curtailed its construction and frustrated funding, basilica officials admitted. #