As temperatures rise and pollution increases, wildfires, floods and extreme winds have battered many parts of the world in the last six months
Compiled by Joe Plimmer
Dorset, UK Visitors experienced unusual conditions on Dorset’s Jurassic coast in May as exceptionally high winds combined with a high tide to produce spume, which blew across the holiday resort of West Bay. Photograph: Tom Corban/REX/Shutterstock
Dorset, UK Visitors experienced unusual conditions on Dorset’s Jurassic coast in May as exceptionally high winds combined with a high tide to produce spume, which blew across the holiday resort of West Bay. Photograph: Tom Corban/REX/Shutterstock
Shrewsbury, UK Floodwaters surround a car parked outside a row of houses in the west of England after Storm Christoph brought heavy rains across the country. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images