Luke Jerram's "Gaia" is displayed at Moors Valley Country Park and Forest in Ashley Heath, England, on September 17, 2021. The installation, a 7-meter replica of planet Earth, is suspended in the park as part of Inside Out Dorset, the county's international arts festival. #

Light from the Windy Fire illuminates the Long Meadow Grove of giant sequoia trees, near the Trail of 100 Giants, overnight in California's Sequoia National Forest, on September 21, 2021. The giant trees are among the biggest on Earth and live for more than 3,000 years, surviving hundreds of wildfires throughout their life spans. The heat of normal wildfires of the past helped the trees reproduce but increasing fire intensity can now kill them. A single wildfire, the Castle Fire, destroyed as much as 14 percent of all the world's giant sequoias in 2020. #

A view of the under-construction Çanakkale 1915 Bridge, spanning the Dardanelles strait between the Lapseki and Gelibolu (Gallipoli) districts, in Çanakkale, Turkey, on September 21, 2021 #

Belgian miner Vincent Theret (lower left), said to be the "last shale miner in Belgium," works in a long-closed slate mine in Alle, near Semois, on September 17, 2021. In this cathedral-like cavity near the village of Alle-sur-Semois, he recovers shale, left behind as waste by the miners who once extracted slate. He then uses this material to make tiles, sinks, and coping stones for swimming pools. #

Mount Cumbre Vieja continues to erupt in El Paso, spewing out columns of ash and lava on La Palma, in the Canary Islands, on September 22, 2021. The eruption has destroyed about 100 homes, large swaths of agricultural land, roads, and businesses. #

A group of naked people take part in a nudist grape harvest in a vineyard of the Herdade Canal Caveira winery in Grandola, Alentejo, Portugal, on September 19, 2021. #

An XL American bulldog puppy chews straw at the Irish National Plowing Championships, which was closed to the general public because of uncertainty over COVID-19 restrictions, in Ratheniska, Ireland, on September 16, 2021. #

Luciana Benetti holds her pet pig, Chanchi, given to her as a birthday present last year, during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Without Chanchi, “I wouldn't be me,” said Benetti, who often sleeps alongside the 45-pound (20-kilogram) Juliana pig, which greets her with a squeal of delight when she arrives at her house. #

A researcher from the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge holds a bat captured at Chhngauk Hill in Thala Borivat District, Steung Treng province Cambodia, on August 30, 2021. #

People carry an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, for immersion off the coast of the Arabian Sea on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, on September 19, 2021. #

Children take part in the Settrington Cup Pedal Car Race as motoring enthusiasts attend the Goodwood Revival, a three-day historic car-racing festival in Goodwood, Chichester, England, on September 18, 2021. #

French slackliner Nathan Paulin performs on a 70-meter-high slackline between the Eiffel Tower and the Chaillot Theater, across the Seine, in Paris, on September 19, 2021. #

The four citizen astronauts of the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splash down in the Crew Dragon capsule off the coast near the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, on September 18, 2021. #

An exhausted Haitian father cradles his son on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande across from Del Rio, Texas, on September 19, 2021, in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico. As U.S. immigration authorities began deporting migrants back to Haiti from Del Rio, thousands more waited in a camp under an international bridge in the city, and others crossed the river back into Mexico. #

A public-information officer takes pictures while flame and smoke rise into the air during the Windy Fire in Sequoia National Forest near Johnsondale, California, on September 22, 2021. #

Dead trees stand in Lake Menindee, seen at sunset in Menindee, Australia, on September 21, 2021. The Menindee Lakes are now filled to 101 percent capacity. After years of drought and fish kills, the inland lake system, which is fed by the Darling River and its catchments across New South Wales and Queensland, is expected to see an influx of wildlife thanks to the abundance of water. #

A Ukrainian serviceman fires at a drone from a position on the front line facing Russia-backed separatists near the town of Niu York (Novgorodske), Donetsk region, on September 17, 2021. #

Many container ships are seen anchored off the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles as they wait to unload, near Los Angeles, California. Amid nationwide record-high demand for imported goods and supply-chain issues, the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are seeing unprecedented congestion. On September 17, a record total of 147 ships, 95 of them container ships, sat in the twin ports, which move about 40 percent of all cargo containers entering the U.S. #

A combination picture shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel holding her hands in her typical "Merkel diamond" position in front of jackets of various colors, during public events—part of a look back at Merkel's 16-year term as Germany's chancellor, ahead of the upcoming federal election, in which she will not run as a candidate for chancellor. Pictures taken from August 2004 to September 2021. #