Roy Morejon wipes dew off the windshield of his lobster boat at sunrise Sept. 16, in South Freeport, Maine.

An ultra-orthodox Jewish man prays as other dance on the banks of a lake in the town of Uman, some 200 km (124 miles) south of Kiev, Sept. 9. Thousands of Jewish pilgrims arrive every year on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman.

Firefighters protect the exposure of a house after a massive explosion and fire in San Bruno, close to San Francisco, late Sept. 9. Dozens of houses were wiped out and at least four people were killed.

Rescued Pakistanis takes cover from the downdraft of a Pakistan Navy helicopter during evacuation operations at flood affected Fareedabad, Dadu district, southern Pakistan on Sept. 15.

A photo taken on Sept. 13, in the Tuscany countryside shows two rainbows after a thunderstorm.

Chinese women lay hay in a grid to prevent the sand from floating with the wind in the desert of Baijitan Conservation Area on July 17, near Yinchuan of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China. The women will then try to push back the sand by planting bushes. Almost 800 million hectares of farmland have been turning into desert over the past few decades; many people including the government have been trying to reverse this trend.

An elderly Chinese woman holds a hand fan while sitting outside her home in a Hutong, or a traditional alleyway in Beijing, Thursday, July 15.

Members of an Indian farming family plough a field in preparation for sowing cotton seeds in Kayla village some 70 km from Ahmedabad on July 19. The family previously used three bullock to plough their agricultural land but owing to crop uncertainty related to less predictable rains, and the price of the animal now between 25,000 and 40,000 Indian rupees (530-850 USD) a piece, the farming family says buying and mainting them is no longer affordable.