A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains on Monday, February 6, 2023. The freight train derailed in the town of nearly 5,000 residents on February 3. Days later, officials decided to burn the toxic vinyl chloride contained in several affected tanker cars, to prevent a larger explosion. #

Riot police officers clash with demonstrators as protests continued following the arrest of the right-wing opposition leader and Santa Cruz Governor Luis Fernando Camacho over an alleged coup in 2019, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, on January 2, 2023. #

Supporters of far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro hold a demonstration at the Esplanada dos Ministérios, in Brasília, on January 8, 2023. Brazilian police used tear gas to repel hundreds of Bolsonaro's supporters after they stormed onto congress grounds one week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's inauguration. #

Representative Richard Hudson of North Carolina (left) pulls back Representative Mike Rogers of Alabama as they talk with Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida and others during the 14th round of voting for the House speaker in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2023. #

Police officers stand guard near an activist in a hammock suspended from a structure during a demonstration in Luetzerath, a German village that is about to be demolished to allow for the expansion of the Garzweiler open-cast coal mine, on January 10, 2023. #

Ukrainian servicemen recover the bodies of Russian soldiers that were stuck in frozen mud on the front line on January 12, 2023, in Kurylivka, Ukraine. The bodies were discovered near a destroyed Russian armored vehicle in late September of 2022. The recovery team was able to retrieve only three of the eight bodies because of artillery shelling. #

The rapper and singer Doja Cat wears a red Schiaparelli gown and thousands of hand-applied crystals all over her body, outside the designer's show venue during Paris Fashion Week, on January 23, 2023. #

A green comet named Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), which last passed by our planet about 50,000 years ago, is seen journeying tens of millions of miles away from Earth in this telescope image taken on January 21, 2023. #

A grandfather hugs his granddaughter while saying goodbye before her evacuation from the frontline city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, amid Russia's ongoing invasion, on January 31, 2023. #

A Viking boat is burned to mark the end of the evening procession of Up Helly Aa on January 31, 2023, in Lerwick, Scotland. Up Helly Aa is a fire festival held annually in communities in Shetland, Scotland. #

A fighter jet flies near the remnants of a large balloon after it was struck by a missile over the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina near Myrtle Beach, on February 4, 2023. The downing of the suspected Chinese spy balloon by a missile from an F-22 fighter jet created a spectacle over one of the state’s tourism hubs and drew crowds reacting with a mixture of bewilderment, distress, and cheering. #

An aerial view of a building that collapsed during the earthquake in Hatay, Turkey, on February 7, 2023. The day before, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria, collapsing thousands of buildings and killing nearly 60,000 people. #

An aerial view of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, seen from Playas de Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on February 16, 2023. Mexico is to the right, and the United States is to the left. #

A "firefall" is seen at Horsetail Fall on El Capitan, during sunset in Yosemite National Park, California, on February 15, 2023. The phenomenon occurs only for a few days in February each year when several weather and climatic conditions are just right. #

An image formed in the night sky by drones depicts the emir of Kuwait, seen above Green Island, off the coast of Kuwait City, on February 16, 2023, as the country celebrated its 62nd Independence Day and the 32nd anniversary of the end of the Gulf War. #

Livestreamers sing and chat with their audiences through their mobile phones while sitting on an overpass bridge at night in Guilin, in southern China's Guangxi province, on February 20, 2023. Many of these outdoor livestreamers hope to catch the attention of local (geolocated) viewers who might give them donations for their efforts. #

A medical worker in protective gear waits to administer COVID-19 tests to reporters signed up to cover the press conference and opening of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, at a quarantine hotel in Beijing, on March 2, 2023. #

San Diego State Aztecs head coach Brian Dutcher falls back into his players's arms from a ladder after they defeated the Wyoming Cowboys and earned the Mountain West Conference regular-season championship at Viejas Arena in San Diego, California, on March 4, 2023. #

The actor James Hong poses while attending the 95th Annual Academy Awards with the cast of the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, on March 12, 2023. #

An aerial view of a pool at the edge of a hillside landslide brought on by heavy rains, which caused four ocean-view apartment buildings to be evacuated and closed because of unstable conditions, on March 16, 2023, in San Clemente, California #

Young Balinese men carry an ogoh-ogoh, a giant menacing-looking sculpture, during the ogoh-ogoh parade in Tegallalang Village, Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia, on the eve of Nyepi, the Balinese Hindu "Day of Silence," on March 20, 2023. #

The basketball player Jaylen Brown, of the Boston Celtics, wears a protective face mask during a game against the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena, in Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2023. #

Harvey Cockrell and his wife, Mary Cockrell, look over the house of their neighbors, Lonnie and Melissa Pierce, who were killed when a semitrailer truck landed on their house during a tornado that hit three days earlier, photographed on March 27, 2023, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. The Cockrells' home was also damaged during the storms, which spawned high, straight-line winds and tornadoes across western Mississippi and Alabama, killing at least 25 people and damaging hundreds of buildings. #

Lightning bolts strike One World Trade Center in New York City as they fan out over the Hudson River and Jersey City, New Jersey, during a thunderstorm on April 1, 2023, as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey. #

A photograph taken on April 4, 2023, shows pillars and buildings of the village of Yusufeli in the rising water of a new reservoir on the Çoruh River, in the Artvin province of northeastern Turkey. An enormous new dam in the region had started to fill its reservoir, slowly submerging the town despite years of protests by locals and environmental groups. Its 7,000 residents have been relocated by the government to newly built apartment blocks nearby. #

Students shout at lawmakers inside the state capitol as they demonstrate against gun violence and call for gun-law reform during the March for Our Lives walkout, a week after the mass shooting at Covenant School, in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 3, 2023. #

The rising sun illuminates the statue of President Abraham Lincoln as people gather for the Easter sunrise service at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., hosted by the National Community Church on April 9, 2023. #

A vehicle drives through floodwaters in the reemerging Tulare Lake, in California’s Central Valley, on April 27, 2023, near Corcoran, California. The lake was once the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi River, but disappeared when waters were diverted by agricultural interests to irrigate crops in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Atmospheric-river-storm events caused significant flooding in the lakebed area, flooding more than 100 square miles of farms and other land. #