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The white fluffy lines; identified as the plane contrails. (Photo: archived/ AFP)
In a year of contrasting extremes, Europe witnessed scorching heatwaves but also catastrophic flooding, withering droughts, violent storms and its largest wildfire (Photo: AFP)
A resident from the nearby neighbourhood looks on the water level scale of river Indus in flood hit Sukkur of Sindh province. (Photo: AFP)
A picture shows a pipe pouring sewage into the Diyala River, east of Baghdad, on January 21, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
Russia's Special Presidential Representative on Climate Issues Ruslan Edelgeriyev. (Photo: AFP)
People walk outside Expo City in Dubai on December 12, 2023, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28. (Photo: AFP)
Men ride bicycles along a street, amid dense smog in the outskirts of Amritsar, India on December 5, 2023. (Photo: AFP)
Low levels of water in Iraqi Marshes effects the livelihoods of more than 6,000 rural families. (Photo: FAO)
A fisherman walks across a dry patch of land in the marshes in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, Sept. 2, 2022. (Photo: Anmar Khalil/ AP)
A picture shows the receding waterline of the Habbaniyah lake affected by severe drought in Iraq's Anbar province, August 11, 2023. (Photo: Murtadha Ridha/AFP)
A view of the ice caps of the Sakran Mountains in the Choman District, whose ice has melted and diminished in size over the past few decades. (Photo: AP)
This map shows global temperature anomalies for July 2023. (Photo: NASA)
People visit the Baghdad Zoo amid sweltering temperatures in the Iraqi capital, Aug. 8, 2023. (Photo: Ahmed Al-Rubaye/ AFP)
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 9, 2023. (Hadi Mizban/ AP)
People walk through a mist dispenser as they enter Al Mubarakiya Market amid soaring temperatures in Kuwait City, July 23, 2023. (Photo: AFP)
A delivery man drinks water in Thessaloniki on July 14, 2023, as Greece is hit by a heatwave. (Photo: Sakis Mitrolidis/ AFP)
