A scientific team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich stands among crevasses on the Rhône Glacier while collecting data near Gletsch, Switzerland, on Friday, August 22, 2025. The Rhône Glacier, among Switzerland’s largest, is likely facing another withering year following record-breaking temperatures across Europe in June and overall low levels of snowfall. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)





A woman reacts during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol near Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, August 27, 2025. (Photo by Alberto Saiz/AP Photo)





A key load test is completed on the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, the world’s tallest bridge, in southwest China on Monday, August 25, 2025. It’s scheduled to open next month. (Photo by Chen Xi/VCG/Getty Images)





An aerial view shows people cooling off on a beach in Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province on August 18, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





This aerial view shows people standing a flow of lava from the Mount Etna volcano (Torre del Filosofo – Etna Sud) on August 28, 2025. The Etna volcanic eruption started on August 10 and remain active the last weeks. (Photo by Giuseppe Distefano/AFP Photo)





In this aerial view houses lie submerged in water arriving from the Lonza river following the May landslide on August 24, 2025 at Blatten, Switzerland. On May 28, following days of smaller rockfalls, millions of cubic meters of rock tumbled down from Kleiner Nesthorn mountain onto the Birch Glacier, sending a greater mix of rock, ice and mud crashing into the Loetschental valley. Much of the village of Blatten was obliterated, both by the landslide and the following accumulation of water from the blocked Lonza river. Authorities had already evacuated Blatten and settlements farther up the valley in the week before, nevertheless one shepherd was killed. Today the mountainside remains unstable with daily rumblings of falling rock. Scientists hypothesise melting permafrost and glacial instability likely contributed to the severity of the landslide. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)





Aerial view of the carcass of a whale washed up on the beach in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on August 19, 2025. (Photo by Guillermo Arias/AFP Photo)





Workers operating creanes unload imported iron ore from a cargo vessel at the port in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on August 27, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





An aerial view shows parts of the Tunca River covered with dense weed clusters as the flow has stopped in some sections due to drought in Edirne, Turkiye, on August 30, 2025. (Photo by Gokhan Zobar/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Nesting gannets and their young at Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire, UK on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, after over 250,000 seabirds flocked to the chalk cliffs to find a mate and raise their young. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)





In an aerial view, local residents cool off at a water park amid scorching temperatures on August 23, 2025 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. High temperatures in summer have triggered new vitality of the cooling economy across China. (Photo by Fang Dongxu/VCG via Getty Images)





A drone view shows a water pumping system operating on the banks of the Euphrates River to irrigate marsh areas affected by drought in Basra, Iraq, on August 20, 2025. Iraq, one of the countries most affected by climate change, faces severe drought, prompting farmers to adopt hydroponic barley grown in climate-controlled units. (Photo by Mohammed Aty/Reuters)





An aerial view taken with a drone shows salt evaporation ponds in the coastal town of Anfeh, Lebanon, 22 August 2025. George Sulaiman inherited the family sea salt business in 2013 and modernized it to produce a wider range of products, including coarse salt, magnesium salt, magnesium oil, Japanese nigari salt, and fleur de sel, in an operation running over 4,000 square meters and has an annual production of 60 tons of salt. The production of sea salt is a long-standing artisanal tradition in Anfeh, which includes drawing seawater into shallow, concrete-lined basins, where it evaporates over several months due to the sun and wind, leaving behind salt crystals that are subsequently harvested. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA)





People watch “A Star Is Born” at an open-air movie theater on the rooftop of a shopping mall on Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Saturday, August 30, 2025. (Photo by Andre Penner/AP Photo)





This handout satellite image courtesy of Maxar Technologies taken and made available on September 3, 2025 shows mud and debris after a landslide buried the mountain village of Tarasin in Sudan's Jebel Marra area. Sudan has recovered 270 bodies from under the mud after a landslide buried a remote mountain village in the Darfur region, a civilian leader under the rebel group controlling the area said on September 3. Heavy rains triggered the landslip which almost wiped out the village of Tarasin in the Jebel Marra range, the Abdulwahid al-Nur faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM) said. (Photo by Satellite image 2025 Maxar Technologies/AFP Photo)