France is battling a spate of wildfires, including a "monster" blaze in the parched southwest that has forced thousands to evacuate. 

Wildfires tore through the Gironde region of southwestern France destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of 10,000 residents.

Millions of Americans are under extreme heat warnings, as the record-setting temperature rises, while a major fire ravaged part of California.

An amber warning for extreme heat issued in the UK - a country with a policy to rapidly reduce climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions. But a combination of a cost of living crisis and the need to find a new prime minister is calling into question Britain's commitment to reaching ‘net zero’ by 2050.

Researchers at the European Commission have warned that nearly half of the EU's territory is currently at risk of drought.

Spain, France and other western European nations on Saturday sweltered under a blistering June heatwave that has sparked forest fires and concerns that such early summer blasts of hot weather will now become the norm.

Firefighters in Italy continue to battle wildfires amid an ongoing heatwave.

The lifestyles of about three average Americans will create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, shows the first analysis to calculate the mortal cost of carbon emissions.

The number of new wildfires in the country this year is at a ten-year high, according to government data, prompting warnings of a dangerous summer ahead.

Hot weather alerts are in place for more than 30 million people across the western United States after the region's second heatwave in weeks brought another round of high temperatures.