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A man stands in front of a taco stand in the small town of Monrovia, California, with bushfires burning in the background: an area of over 20,000 square kilometers of forest, mainly in the western United States, has now burned down.
Six of the current fires are already among the 20 worst in California history.
The evidence that climate change is partly responsible for the increasing severity of the forest fires in the USA in recent years is overwhelming.
President Trump still denies its existence.
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David Swanson / imago images / ZUMA Wire
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2/21
A few days later, the fire has moved closer to the houses in the city.
Our correspondent in San Francisco also has "a front row seat".
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3/21
In addition to California and Washington, Oregon is one of the states particularly hard hit by the fires: Chuck Sutton and his two sons, the twins Chance and Ryder, are preparing to leave their home in Buttle Falls to be safe from the approaching flames bring.
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4/21
Shayanne Summers and her dog "Toph" have been in an evacuation center near Portland, Oregon's economic center, and live there in a tent for several days.
About the stay there, she says: "It's actually nice here, you could almost mistake it for a camping holiday. But only almost."
This is probably called optimism of purpose.
Photo: John Locher / AP
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5/21
Where the flames have gone, there is only despair.
Parts of Small Town Talent in Oregon ...
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6/21
... has razed the fire to the ground.
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7/21
A former resident of the destroyed refugee camp Moria on Lesbos pulls a little girl behind him in search of a new place to stay.
The fire in the camp and the question of what should happen to the people, some of whom have lived there for years under degrading conditions, has brought Europe back into focus again on the inability to agree on a common, consistent and humane migration policy public discussion.
But what is the consequence of the realization that 27 EU countries will never agree on a uniform line on the refugee issue?
My colleague Maximilian Popp calls for "courage to go it alone".
Photo: ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS / REUTERS
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8/21
A young boy cries after getting tear gas in his eyes: a few days after a fire destroyed the camp, there were clashes between migrants demonstrating for better living conditions and police forces.
Stones flew, the police responded with tear gas.
The Union and the SPD have now agreed to take in around 1,500 former residents of the camp in Germany.
Some may find this unsatisfactory, but realistically Florian Gathmann may be right, who thinks that the compromise is at least "worthy of all honor".
Photo: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP
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9/21
A dead alligator lies in an almost completely evaporated river bed: fires are currently causing great damage not only in the USA, but also in the Brazilian Pantanal, one of the largest wetlands on earth, where the worst fires have raged for 20 years and threaten a unique natural paradise.
The widely ramified system of rivers and lakes is home to a wide variety of plants and animals, including over 120 large mammal species such as jaguars and tapirs.
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10/21
A young member of the Tenetehara ethnic group looks into a photographer's camera shortly before the start of a festival held to celebrate that no member of the group has so far contracted Covid-19.
The indigenous community lives in the Alto Rio Guama Reserve on the western edge of the Brazilian state of Para and has been strictly isolated from the outside world since the outbreak of the epidemic.
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11/21
Hanging out on wood: John Pfaff is lying on a fallen tree in Salt Lake City and obviously, well, lets his soul dangle.
A storm had caused damage in the city two days earlier.
At the time of recording, tens of thousands of people were still without electricity.
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12/21
Hanging out on wood: Georg Filser-Mayerhofer is bouldering on a pile of wood in Kochel am See, almost 70 kilometers south of Munich.
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13/21
The dream of a house in the country has turned into a nightmare for many home buyers in this experimental building complex in Chengdu, China.
Eight high-rise buildings, each with thirty floors, were planned as a "vertical forest". The project was completed in 2018, the apartments were sold quickly, but only around 10 parties moved in. The reason: the green attracts insects, which is a mosquito plague Speech: The unused apartments and balconies have since run wild.
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14/21
One man, one mission: does anything sound familiar to you?
Right, somewhere in the picture you can see one of the bottles that you left on the beach at this boozy celebration last year and that has now washed up again in Malaysia.
There it was collected by Tengku Mohamad Ali Mansor, who has set himself the goal of cleaning the beach of his home country from washed up glass.
In the meantime he has built a small museum for his finds in his village.
You see: there is no reason to change anything in your behavior, everything is good for something in the end.
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15/21
Nudiste de Funès?
A lot of stupid puns come to mind for this photo, I'll spare you further ideas.
In any case, these visitors to an exhibition on the work of the French comedian Louis de Funès in the Cinémathèque française in Paris are dressed on top.
In view of the still high corona numbers in the French capital, this is certainly appropriate.
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16/21
Seattle Mariners Tim Lopes tries to catch a "foul ball" from San Francisco Giants batsman Wilmer Flores.
The Giants defeated the Mariners 9-3 in the catch-up game.
As with many sporting events these days, Major League Baseball games are currently only allowed to view cardboard mates.
Photo: Jeff Chiu / AP
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17/21
Football can be so beautiful - even without a spectator: the Kassam Stadium in Oxford, bathed in the reddish light of the evening sun, at the encounter between Stipe Perica and Oxford United.
Peaceful, without noise, without alcohol and exuberant emotions - and certainly without any negative impact on the infection process.
Strangely enough, the wind has turned in this country: the fact that Germany has come through the pandemic well so far has made many people reckless.
And tempted many politicians to give in to the lobbying work of the big football clubs and the supposedly excessive public interest and to let spectators into the stadiums again.
Despite the increasing number of cases, despite the worrying developments in other European countries.
"The wrong signal", as not only my colleague Marcus Krämer thinks.
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18/21
The "Tribute in Light" light monument shines in the sky of New York on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
This year, another tragedy overshadowed the memory, the victims of which are hardly mourned.
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19/21
The corona pandemic in the USA has so far claimed over 200,000 deaths.
Responsible for this is a man who admitted that he deliberately downplayed and continued to downplay the danger posed by the virus from the start, who has demonstrably lied more than 20,000 times during his tenure and for whom there are apparently almost no rules: Donald Trump.
Editor Benjamin Bidder found answers to the question of why around 40 percent of voters fanatical and unswervingly loyal to him despite all the scandals from cultural scientist Bastian Hermission.
Pictured: A Trump supporter on the sidelines of a presidential campaign rally in Henderson, Nevada.
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20/21
The Tyra Ost and Tyra West production platforms are located in the port of Frederikshavn, Denmark, and are being dismantled.
Since 1984, the two platforms have been producing natural gas from the largest deposit in the Danish North Sea, the Tyra field.
The dismantling of the plants is the largest recycling project in Danish history and is being carried out by the American company MARS (Modern American Recycling Services).
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21/21
Finally, the color of the week again: orange.
However, this shot has nothing to do with the fires that are currently dominating the news and this photo series: It is the rays of the rising sun that bathe the early morning fog in the Leinemasch near Hanover in golden light.
A high pressure area is currently bringing Germany sunny late summer weather.
Enjoy the weekend!
Photo: Julian Stratenschulte / dpa