Dead fish float on the polluted waters of the Lempa river in the village of Pinuelas, 430km west of Tegucigalpa, on January 20, 2018. – Thousands of fish have died in recent days due to contamination in the Lempa River caused largely by water that is used for washing coffee beans in processing plants that do not have a wastewater treatment system. The river has its sources in Guatemala where it is known as Olopa, then runs through Honduras and El Salvador as the Lempa. (Photo by Marvin RECINOS / AFP)
A picture taken on May 10, 2017 shows bare sand and dried tree trunks standing out at Theewaterskloof Dam, which has less than 20% of it’s water capacity, near Villiersdorp, about 108km from Cape Town. – This dam is the main water source for the city of Cape Town, and there is only 10% of it’s usual capacity left for human consumption, at the last 10% is not useable, due to the silt content. The Western Cape Province, which includes Cape Town is suffering from one of the worst water shortages in living memory. This has necessitated the Cape Town City Councel to establish stringent water usage restrictions, and unless unexpectedly heavy rains fall soon, the province will begin a cycle of drought. (Photo by Rodger BOSCH / AFP)
Dogs react as their owner ,Kunuk Abelsen, a 27-years-old Greenlandic musher arrives to the island where they are kept near Kulusuk (also spelled Qulusuk), a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality located on the island of the same name on the southeastern shore of Greenland on August 19, 2019. – Tethered between pastel-coloured wooden houses in the Greenlandic village of Kulusuk and on hills nearby, the island’s famous sled dogs wait through the summer for the ice to form so their hunting season can begin. But as the ice that covers 85 percent of Greenland melts and its winters grow unpredictable, climate change is casting a shadow over the much loved tradition in Denmark’s autonomous territory. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY TOM LITTLE
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A school boy wears worn out shoes as he carries a plastic bottle he filled with river water as he and others head back to school on August 17, 2009. In Kenya a bruising and recurring drought is driving huge numbers of subsistence farmers away from rural areas, where they are increasingly reliant on hand-outs, into congested slums. Many farmers in the region have already abandoned the land, at least temporarily, in favour of producing and selling charcoal or breaking stones in a nearby quarry for a local construction company. AFP PHOTO/Tony Karumba (Photo by Tony KARUMBA / AFP)
A picture taken on October 31, 2018 shows polar bears feeding at a garbage dump near the village of Belushya Guba, on the remote Russian northern Novaya Zemlya archipelago, a tightly-controlled military area where a village declared a state of emergency in February after dozens of bears were seen entering homes and public buildings. – Scientists say conflicts with ice-dependent polar bears will increase in the future due to Arctic ice melting and a rise of human presence in the area as Moscow bolsters economic and military activity in the Arctic. An “invasion” of aggressive polar bears in inhabited areas of Arctic Russia occured for around ten days in February 2019 after the animals came to the area looking for food. Polar bears are affected by global warming with melting Arctic ice forcing them to spend more time on land where they compete for food. (Photo by Alexander GRIR / AFP)
Venezuelan people cross the Simon Bolivar International Bridge back to Venezuela, after buying food supplies in Cucuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia, on January 4, 2020. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP)
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A Turkish police officer stands next to a migrant child’s dead body (Aylan Shenu) off the shores in Bodrum, southern Turkey, on September 2, 2015 after a boat carrying refugees sank while reaching the Greek island of Kos. Thousands of refugees and migrants arrived in Athens on September 2, as Greek ministers held talks on the crisis, with Europe struggling to cope with the huge influx fleeing war and repression in the Middle East and Africa. (Photo by Nilufer Demir / DOGAN NEWS AGENCY / AFP)
A man carries a case during the eviction and destruction operation of the Boribana neighbourhood in Abidjan, on November 30, 2019, to make way for the construction of the fourth bridge of the city. (Photo by SIA KAMBOU / AFP)
A child remains at an area affected by a drought on Earth Day in the southern outskirts of Tegucigalpa on April 22, 2016. (Photo by ORLANDO SIERRA / AFP)
A girl walks barefoot at al-Hol camp for displaced people in al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria on July 22, 2019, as people collect UN-provided humanitarian aid packages. (Photo by Delil souleiman / AFP)