Climate-related catastrophes batter the US, with raging floods, devastating fires, powerful thunderstorms, and a dangerous heat wave affecting a third of the population
Two huge blazes, each of more than 120,000 hectares, continue to rage in the New Mexico state of the US.
A series of slow-motion disasters has gripped the country as it enters summer, with warnings of misery for months to come in some areas. Hundreds of thousands of people were without power in the Midwest after thunderstorms tore through the area.Further west, dramatic photographs and videos published by the National Park Service showed the devastation wreaked by flooding in Yellowstone, the country's oldest national park.
"Given the fuel conditions, the fire conditions that we're here talking about, I foresee a very tough four, five, six months in front of us," Orange County, California Fire Chief Brian Fennessy said last week.