A Pride parade in Bangkok, platform diving in Boston Harbor, a deadly train collision in India, tidal-bore surfing in Brazil, a hedge labyrinth in Denmark, a thousand-musician performance in Madrid, flooding after a dam breach in Ukraine, surreal smoky skies over New York City, and much more
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Read moreAn aerial view of the Amazon rainforest side by side with the neighborhood of Coroado, located in the east zone of Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, on June 5, 2023, during World Environment Day #
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Read moreBuddhist monks take seats at the cetiya for a lantern-lighting event to honor the Buddha on International Vesak Day at Wat Phra Dhammakaya Buddhist temple, on the outskirts of Bangkok, on June 3, 2023, in Pathum Thani, Thailand. #
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Read moreSmoke billows upward from a planned ignition by firefighters tackling the Donnie Creek Complex wildfire south of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, on June 3, 2023. #
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Read moreA man talks on his phone as he looks through the haze at the George Washington Bridge from Fort Lee, New Jersey, on June 7, 2023. Intense Canadian wildfires blanketed the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian smog, turning the air acrid and the sky yellowish-gray, and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside. #
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Read moreAn elevated view of Kīlauea volcano as it began to erupt at about 4:44 a.m. on June 7, 2023, in Hawaii. The eruption at Kīlauea's summit is occurring within a closed area of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and high levels of volcanic gas are the primary safety concern. #
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Read moreA view of the Nova Kakhovka dam, which was breached in Ukraine's Kherson region on June 6, 2023, seen in a screen grab taken from a video obtained by Reuters. Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the deliberate destruction of the dam. #
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Read moreStreets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, on June 7, 2023, after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed. Residents of southern Ukraine, some of whom spent the night on rooftops, braced for a second day of swelling floodwaters on Wednesday as authorities warned that a the dam breach would continue to unleash pent-up waters from a giant reservoir. #
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Read moreA cat rests on a piece of furniture floating in debris-choked floodwater in Kherson on June 8, 2023; flooding engulfed the city following damage sustained at the Kakhovka hydroelectric-power-plant dam. #
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Read morePeople shelter from shelling during an evacuation from a flooded area in Kherson, on June 8, 2023. Ukraine and Russia accused each other of shelling rescuers and evacuees in the flood-hit Kherson region. #
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Read moreParticipants line Champs-Elysees Avenue in an attempt to beat the world record for biggest dictation. The avenue was transformed into a giant classroom, in Paris, France, on June 4, 2023. #
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Read moreMusicians take part in the Rockin'1000 concert, during which more than 1,000 musicians played and sang simultaneously at the Civitas Metropolitano stadium in Madrid, Spain, on June 3, 2023. #
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Read moreScavengers sort and collect plastic waste for recycling during World Environment Day at the Bantar Gebang landfill in Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia, on June 5, 2023. Bantar Gebang is considered to be one of the largest garbage dumps in the world. #
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Read moreAn activist dressed up as an evil oil executive takes part in an Extinction Rebellion protest calling for a permanent ban on oil exploration in Antarctica, as part of World Environment Day in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 5, 2023. #
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Read moreA sculpture titled "Plastic pile of sh!t, 2023," presented by Better Packaging Co., is on display at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on June 5, 2023. The four-meter-high sculpture is made of recycled plastic and designed to draw attention to the huge amount of plastic that's dumped in the world's oceans every 30 seconds. #
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Read moreBrazilian surfer Naysson Costa rides the tidal-bore wave known as "Pororoca," during the Amazon Surf Festival, held in the Canal Perigoso, or "Dangerous Channel," at the mouth of the Amazon River near Chaves, Marajo Island archipelago, Para state, Brazil, on June 5, 2023. #
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Read moreA drone view shows derailed coaches after trains collided in Balasore district in the eastern state of Odisha, India, on June 3, 2023. More than 285 people were killed and 1,100 injured in the incident. #
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Read moreCarlos Gimeno of Spain dives from a 27.5-meter platform into Boston Harbor during the first competition day of the first stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 2, 2023. #
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Read moreBalloonists inflate the canopy of the famous BBC balloon at the start of the the three-day Midlands Air Festival at Ragley Hall in Alcester, England, on June 2, 2023. #
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Read morePeople listen to "The Hatchling. Song Thrush," a sculpture of a giant egg that makes chick sounds, by Polish artist Joanna Rajkowska, seen in Five Corners Square in Warsaw, Poland, on June 8, 2023. #
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Read moreA U.S. Secret Service uniformed division officer watches over a family of ducks walking on the sidewalk of Pennsylvania Avenue, in front of the White House, in Washington, D.C., on June 5, 2023. #
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