A drone view shows competitors taking part in the annual international waterfall jumping competition held in the old town of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina on August 9, 2025. (Photo by Amel Emric/Reuters)





An aerial view taken with a drone shows Tibaguin Island partly submerged in seawater amid rising tides on August 9, 2025 in Hagonoy, Philippines. In the Philippines’ coastal communities, the water has been rising for years—a slow, relentless encroachment fueled by melting ice sheets in Antarctica, the sinking of land from decades of unchecked groundwater extraction, and the swelling seas of a warming planet. But residents say the sharpest surge came with large-scale reclamation and other man-made coastal developments, which have altered currents and forced the tide farther inland. Now, even the gentlest tide can unleash deep floods, drowning streets and homes in minutes, a daily reminder of how human activity can accelerate a disaster already set in motion by climate change. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)





Indian rescue teams work after the cloudburst in Dharali village in Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand state, northern India, 12 August 2025. Indian authorities confirmed that more than 1,200 people had been rescued in several areas of the Himalayas, after a powerful cloudburst struck the Dharali area in the Uttarkashi district on 05 August, triggering flash floods that swept away a village and left several people dead. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)





Charred vehicles damaged by wildfires sit in an impound lot in Kato Achaia, near Patras, western Greece, August 13, 2025. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)





An aerial photo shows Panlong Road during a government organized trip in Tashkurgan County, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, 12 August 2025. Panlong Road in China, also known as the Panlong Ancient Road, is a renowned mountain route located in the Kashgar region. Part of the historic Silk Road, it is notable for its numerous hairpin turns, stretching a total length of 36 kilometers and featuring over 600 curves. (Photo by Alex Plavevski/EPA)





An aerial drone photo shows vessels anchored at a port to take shelter from Typhoon Podul in Xiamen, Fujian Province, southeast China 12 August 2025 (issued 13 August 2025). At 6 p.m. on 12 August, the flood control headquarters in Fujian upgraded its emergency typhoon response from Level IV to Level III in anticipation of the storm’s arrival. (Phoot by Zeng Demeng/EPA)





A drone view shows vehicles on flooded streets, following unprecedented rainfall, in Nezahualcoyotl, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, on August 12, 2025. (Photo by Henry Romero/Reuters)





An aerial view of people visiting the roaring Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River on August 11, 2025 in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province of China. Hukou waterfall is witnessing an increasing water flow lately. (Photo by Liu Yijiang/VCG via Getty Images)





This image released by the British Colombia Wildfire Service (BCWS) shows an aerial view of Mount Underwood near Port Alberni, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada on August 11, 2025. The BC Wildfire Service reports the blaze has expanded to roughly 8.6 square kilometres (3.3 square miles), prompting an evacuation order from campsites. (Photo by BC Wildfire Service/AFP Photo)





A drone view shows boats equipped to clean, working on El Cerron Grande reservoir, which is covered with water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) due to pollution, in Suchitoto, El Salvador on August 12, 2025. (Photo by Jose Cabezas/Reuters)





This picture taken from the Orellana viewpoint shows the Roman-era mining site of Las Medulas in the municipality of Carucedo, after a wildfire ravaged the area, on August 11, 2025. Firefighters in northwestern Spain struggled today to contain a wildfire that damaged a Roman-era mining site and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate. The firefighting effort faced "many difficulties" due to high temperatures and winds of up to 40 kilometres per hour (25 mph), said the regional environment minister. The blaze broke out yesterday near the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Las Medulas, a Roman gold-mining area famed for its striking red landscape in northwestern Spain. (Photo by Cesar Manso/AFP Photo)





A drone view shows people protesting after families of hostages called for a nationwide strike to demand the return of all hostages and an end to the war in Gaza, in the area of the so-called Hostages Square, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on August 17, 2025. (Photo by Aviv Atlas/Reuters)





This aerial view shows a flooded park due to heavy rains in the Aztecas neighborhood near the International Mexican Airport “Benito Juarez” in Mexico City on August 12, 2025. Heavy rains battering Mexico City caused chaos again on Tuesday at the capital's airport, where thousands of passengers were stranded due to the temporary suspension of operations. (Photo by Alfredo Estrella/AFP Photo)





People spend the day at the beach of the Baltic Sea in Scharbeutz, northern Germany, Wednesday, August 13, 2025. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





An aerial photograph shows a wheat harvest near Betteshanger, south-east England, on August 17, 2025. Excepionally dry weather has seen a reduced yeald in this seasons wheat harvest. (Photo by Ben Stansall/AFP Photo)