Spectators admire plumes of steam from a tour boat as lava flows into the Pacific during Kilauea volcano eruptions in Hawaii on June 4.
— Terray Sylvester / Reuters
Scavengers search for recyclables at a landfill in Richmond, Zimbabwe, on June 2.
The theme for this year's World Environment Day on June 5 was "beating plastic pollution."
— Zinyange Auntony / AFP - Getty Images
Women carry the coffin of Claudia Gomez Gonzalez, 19, in San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala, on June 2.
Gomez was killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on May 23 near the Mexican border in Rio Bravo, Texas, about 10 miles south of Laredo. The incident is under investigation.
— Esteban Biba / EPA
Lava from the Kilauea volcano consumes homes in the Kapoho area, east of Pahoa, Hawaii, on June 5.
Hundreds of homes have been destroyed, forever changing the landscape and forming a new shoreline that is expected to keep growing. Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday that the lava feeding that flow is still active and there's no way to know when the eruption will end or if more lava-spewing vents will open.
— Terray Sylvester / Reuters
A butterfly flies into the jaws of a crocodile along the Tarcoles River, the most polluted basin in Central America and one of the most polluted in Latin America, in Tarcoles, Costa Rica, on June 5.
— Jeffrey Arguedas / EPA
Anna Bader of Germany dives from a 21-meter platform during the first training session of the first stop at the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, on May 31.
— Romina Amato / Red Bull via Getty Images
A villager walks between abandoned houses covered with overgrown vegetation in Houtouwan on Shengshan Island in China on May 31.Houtouwan was a thriving fishing community of sturdy brick homes that climb up the hills, but is now abandoned, with entire houses completely overgrown as if vacuum-sealed in a lush layer of green.
— Johannes Eisele / AFP - Getty Images
Models wait before a fashion show using recycled or biodegradable materials organized by the United Nations in Kisumu, Kenya, on May 31.
— Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP - Getty Images
Giraffes watch from their enclosure as a newborn giraffe calf and its mother are separated from others at a zoo in Kolkata, India, on June 7.
— Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP - Getty Images
People carry the coffins of seven people who died during the eruption of the Volcan de Fuego, meaning Volcano of Fire, during a funeral procession in San Juan Alotenango, Guatemala, on June 4.
— Santiago Billy / AP
A dead cow lays in the disaster zone near the Volcan de Fuego in Escuintla, Guatemala, on June 5. The fiery volcanic eruption in south-central Guatemala killed scores as rescuers struggled to reach people where homes and roads were charred and blanketed with ash.
— Rodrigo Abd / AP
People gather before a fashion show at Liberty State Park in New Jersey on June 6.
— Andrew Kelly / Reuters |