PHOTO COLLECTION: 2024 climate photos of the year

Do Hoang Trung, who lives on a houseboat with his twin sister and their grandmother, sleeps under a mosquito net in Can Tho, Vietnam, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Nguyen Thi Thuy, a vendor who sells steamed buns on a floating market, paddles her boat in Can Tho, Vietnam, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Naiki Vaast spearfishes along the coral reef in Vairao, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Farmers make barricades after blocking a highway during a protest near Mollerussa, Spain, Feb. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Workers carry cattle dung, used to make natural fertilizer, in Pedavuppudu village, India, Feb. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Fishermen fold a net near the shores of the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, India, Feb. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A man carries jugs to fetch water from a hole in the sandy riverbed in Makueni County, Kenya, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

A resident fills his water tank at the Pamplona Alta hilltop neighborhood in Lima, Peru, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Residents collect drinking water that falls naturally down a mountain in the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Residents bathe in a dam of Unda River in Klungkung, Bali, Indonesia, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

People collect water from an open drain in Guwahati, India, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Mark Ojibway wades in shallow water looking for walleye during the spring spearfishing season at the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, near Hayward, Wis., April 14, 2024. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Residents take refugee at Ombaka Primary School after fleeing floodwaters in Ombaka Village, Kisumu, Kenya, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Ongoro)

Residents rescue a woman who was caught amid the rain in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

Children play inside a makeshift shade where farmers take rest in Sandahkhaiti, a floating island village in the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Amilcar Veron sits in a makeshift tent on the roof of his house with the belongings he saved from floods in Durazno, Uruguay, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Volunteers gather in order to help residents evacuate from an area flooded in Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A dog eyes a blueback, or Quinault sockeye salmon, before Jade Rodriguez brings the fish to Quinault Pride Seafood to sell in Taholah, Wash., May 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Buildings cover Gardi Sugdub Island, Panama, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Children line up to enter school on Gardi Sugdub Island, part of the San Blas archipelago off Panama’s Caribbean coast, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Margarita Salazar, 82, wipes the sweat off with a tissue inside her home amid high heat in Veracruz, Mexico, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Pilgrims use umbrellas to shield themselves from the sun as they gather outside Nimrah Mosque to offer noon prayers in Arafat, during the annual Hajj, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A patient suffering from heatstroke receives treatment at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Bigeye trevally fish swim against the current at Wolf Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski)

An animal runs through grass while fleeing flames as the Park Fire tears through the Cohasset community in Butte County, Calif., July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Grant Douglas pauses while evacuating as the Park Fire jumps Highway 36 near Paynes Creek in Tehama County, Calif., July 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Flames consume a structure on Bessie Lane as the Thompson Fire burns in Oroville, Calif., July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

A beluga whale swims through the Churchill River, Aug. 5, 2024, near Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

A family stands near the Hudson Bay, Aug. 3, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

A polar bear nurses her cub, Aug. 7, 2024, near Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Students hold on to a rope as they cross a street flooded after heavy rains, on their way home in Ajmer, India, Sept. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Deepak Sharma)

People walk through floodwaters following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Sept 10, 2024. (AP Photos/ Joshua Olatunji)

A man gazes out from an abandoned house in Melamchi, Nepal, Sept. 15, 2024, damaged by floods in 2021. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A resident is evacuated from her flooded house in Jesenik, Czech Republic, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Jesus Hernandez guides his granddaughter Angelina in a container through a flooded street in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Batabano, Cuba, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Pools of water caused by heavy rainfall between sand dunes are visible in the desert town of Merzouga, Morocco, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo)

Berta Sanyi stands chest deep in water as she collects clams in a mangrove forest where only women are permitted to enter in Jayapura, Papua province, Indonesia, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

A girl carries a chicken on her head while going down a hill that shows the low level of the Amazon River, in Leticia, Colombia, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

People walk through a part of the Amazon River that shows signs of drought in Santa Sofia, Colombia, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Tania embraces her brother-in-law Baruc after rescuing some of their belongings amid flooding from their house in Paiporta, Spain, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

People recover belongings from their house, which was destroyed by Hurricane Rafael, in Alquizar, Cuba, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Members of a military emergency unit use a canoe to search the area for bodies washed away by floods in the outskirts of Valencia, Spain, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)