An aerial view shows boats at the bottom of Lac des Brenets, a lake between France and Switzerland. That was due to the persistent heat and the lack of rain.
Photo Fabrice Coffrini/AFP
The drought also affects nature in Italy. These hikers walk on the artificial Lago Gabiet, in the north of the country. There is usually a lot of fishing on the lake.
A man is sunbathing in an unusually empty St. James’s Park, one of eight royal parks in London. It was over 40 degrees in the UK last week.
The remains of a Portuguese village that had just come under water since the construction of the dam of Cabril. Due to the drought, the ruins have become visible again.
Photo Miguel Pereira/Reuters
Fabio Pezzolati, 25, throws young cockles back into the Goro lagoon, 100 kilometers south of Venice. Drought makes the water saltier, making it easier for algae to reproduce. But the amount of oxygen that algae needs puts the lives of clams and mussels at risk.
Traffic on the bridge over the artificial Woodhead Lake in the northern British county of West Yorkshire. Also here it is normally full of water. In England, which is experiencing the most extreme drought since 1976, people are being asked to limit their water consumption.
Parts of the northern Italian River Po have also dried up. The southern European country has declared a state of emergency in five regions surrounding the Po. Due to the large precipitation deficit, it is drier than it has been in the past seventy years.
Photo Massimo Pinca/Reuters
The dry soil of the partially dried up Rhine in Düsseldorf, in the west of Germany. Forest fires are also raging in the east of the country due to the ongoing drought.
Houseboats that have dried up along the Waal near Nijmegen. The ongoing drought is causing low water levels in the rivers in the east of the country. Rijkswaterstaat issues daily warnings for the Waal and the IJssel. Earlier this week, Rijkswaterstaat was forced to close the lock in the Maas-Waal Canal due to the very low water level in the Waal.
In the south of France it has hardly rained lately. In combination with the record high temperatures, this also leads to exposed river beds and low water levels, as seen here at the Lac de Castillon.
Photo Sebastien Nogier/EPA
A Romanian woman drops to her knees to pray for rain. Romanian farmers are seriously affected by the drought in the country, which normally exports a lot of grain. The country’s Orthodox Church has called on clerics to resume traditional rain prayers.
Photo Octav Ganea/Inquam/via Reuters
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