From wildfires to glacier collapses, a flurry of extreme heat events has led to deaths and disrupted lives since the start of July.
A rescue helicopter flies over the Punta Rocca glacier.
Glacier collapse in Italy
On 3 July, one day after a record-high temperature of 10C was recorded at the summit of a glacier on the Marmolada mountain in the Dolomites, a section broke loose, sending ice, snow and rocks on to a hiking trial. Eleven people were killed.
A helicopter pours water on a forest fire that started in Santa Cristina d’Aro in Girona on 1 July.
Wildfires in Spain
Between 1 January and 3 July more than 70,300 hectares of forest went up in smoke in Spain – almost double the average of the last 10 years.
Firefighters work to extinguish a forest fire in Monsagro, Salamanca, on 13 July.
A composite of photos showing the Tian Shan avalanche.
Glacier collapse in Kyrgyzstan
Five days after the glacier collapse in Italy, on 8 July a British tourist captured an avalanche caused by another glacier collapse sweeping down a mountain in the Tian Shan range.
A man carries a plastic pool to his friend’s apartment in San Antonio, Texas, on 11 July.
Temperature records broken in US
More than a dozen daily temperature records were broken over the weekend of 9-10 July in cities in Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Heat warnings are in place for millions of Americans across the south-west and central US.
Jon David De Leon from the charity Eagles Flight Advocacy and Outreach delivers a fan to Juanita Alarcon in an apartment complex in San Antonio.
The most recent data from the United States Drought Monitor shows that most US states are experiencing some form of drought, with the problem most acute in the south and west.
A man wearing a face mask pulls a cart on a street amid a heatwave warning in Shanghai on 13 July.
Roofs melt and roads crack in China
Heat alerts have been issued for scores of cities across eastern and southern China. On 11 July, a museum in Chongqing closed for repairs after sections of its tiled roof melted.
The roof of a museum cafe in Chongqing was damaged by the heat on 11 July.
State TV shows a heat-damaged section of a road arched up at least 14cm in a town in Jiangxi province.
Residents in an air-raid shelter amid a heatwave warning in Nanjing on 12 July.
On 12 July authorities opened an air-raid shelter to escape the heat in Nanjing in Jiangsu province.
Forest fires burning near Carrazeda de Ansiães in Portugal on 9 July.
Wildfires in Portugal
Fires have been raging for more than a week in drought-hit Portugal, where about half of the country remained on red alert for extreme heat conditions on 14 July. On 13 July a temperature a temperature of 46.3C was registered in the central town of Lousa, one degree below a 2003 record.
Firefighters in action as a wildfire burns near the village of Barracão, in the municipality of Leiria, Portugal, 13 July 2022.
The Gironde forest fire seen from Dune du Pilat, the tallest sand dune in Europe, on 12 July.
Wildfires in France
About 1,000 firefighters, supported by six water-bomber aircraft, have been battling two wildfires in the south-west.
Tourists look at the plume of dark smoke on the shoreline of Arcachon from the pier in Andernos-les-Bains on 14 July.
