SALTA, ARGENTINA: A man flees with his dog from a blaze raging through a neighbourhood of Salta in the Andes. Photo: Javier Corbalan/AP

BANYULS-SUR-MER, FRANCE: Tourists remain on the beach as smoke from wildfires raging in the Aude department engulfs the Mediterranean coast in Banyuls-sur-Mer. The environment ministry said the fire had destroyed the same amount of land in 24 hours that wildfires typically burned across France in a year. ‘This is an exceptional fire that illustrates the scale of the consequences of the climate crisis,’ the ministry said.Photo: Olivier Chassignole/AFP/Getty Images

GAZA: Photographed from a Jordanian aid plane, Gaza resembles the ruins of an ancient civilisation, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A patchwork of concrete shapes and shattered walls, neighbourhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities wiped out. Photo: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian.

WEST JAVA, INDONESIA: A 100-metre-long Indonesian flag is paraded through the streets in Bogor in preparation for the country’s 80th independence day celebrations. Photo: Aditya Aji/AFP/Getty Images

MALAGA, SPAIN: Flamingo chicks rounded up to be tagged at the Fuente de Piedra lagoon. Photo: Anadolu/Getty Images

CAPTAINS: Seen from the just-ended mining expo in Windhoek are from left B2Gold country manager John Roos, Chamber of Mines Namibia CEO Veston Marango and Swakop Uranium vice president Irvinee Simaata. Photo: Chamber of Mines.

ATTOCK, PAKISTAN: In Pakistan, Islamic fundamentalists belonging to the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas), Swat and Dir districts constantly pressure drivers to remove human and animal imagery from the trucks, driving truck artists out of these areas and shutting down their workshops. The fear of persecution or having their cargos looted or damaged has forced drivers with painted and embellished trucks out of these regions, while new trucks, decorated in abstract, minimal designs, have replaced them. Photo: Christopher Herwig

CASTAIC, CALIFORNIA, US: A helicopter drops water on the Canyon fire in Castaic. The brush fire in a mountainous area north of Los Angeles ignited and spread quickly on Thursday, forcing thousands to evacuate. Photo: Allison Dinner/EPA