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A gray heron crouches among water lilies while searching for prey in Mattheiser Pond, where the water level has dropped and the shoreline is nearly dry following several days of prolonged dry weather, in Trier, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026. | Photo: Harald Tittel/dpa via AP
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Recreational boats lie aground in the nearly dry Mühlarm, a side channel of the Rhine, amid low water levels in Nackenheim, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026. | Photo: Andreas Arnold/dpa via AP
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A lightly loaded tank ship travels on the Rhine river at low water levels caused by a heat wave and prolonged drought in Duesseldorf, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. | Photo: AP/Martin Meissner
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Faithful use their fan to cool-off as they wait for the arrival of Pope Leo XIV n the occasion of the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. | Photo: AP/Gregorio Borgia
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Dried vegetation is seen surrounding the All Saints church in Blackheath, London, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, as the hot and very dry weather continues for most parts of the UK. | Photo: AP/Kwiyeon Ha
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A family of coots sit on a log floating in algae in a canal, triggered by hot weather, amid drought conditions in London, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026. | Photo: AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth
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Polar bears cool down on a pile of ice that was brought to theirs enclosure on a hot and sunny day at the Zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, July 30, 2026. | Photo: AP/Petr David Josek
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A person walks with an umbrella on Place de la Concorde in Paris during a heat wave, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. | Photo: AP/Aurelien Morissard
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A girl cools off in a public fountain in Vilnius, Lithuania, Friday, July 31, 2026. | Photo: AP/Mindaugas Kulbis
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A man jogs as the sun rises on a summer day in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. | Photo: AP/Francisco Seco
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Tourists use handheld fans as they pause in Piazza del Campidoglio on Rome's Capitoline Hill, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. | Photo: AP/Alessandra Tarantino
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A municipal public space supervisor distributes bagged drinking water to pedestrians in a square during a heat wave in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. | Photo: Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP
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A couple hold an umbrella to protect themselves from the sun during a hot day in central Nicosia, Cyprus, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. | Photo: AP/Petros Karadjias
