Forest fires do not give America a break.
In recent weeks, tens of thousands of hectares have been ravaged by flames, from California to the Amazon.
The effects of climate change and human activities have left their mark, an alarm signal echoed this week by the latest report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
"Human-induced climate change is already affecting many extreme weather and climate events in all regions of the world," reads the document, prepared by specialists as a result of three years of work.
"Evidence of the changes observed in extremes such as heat waves, heavy rainfall, droughts and tropical cyclones," add the researchers, authors of the most comprehensive report that has been written to date.
It is a global phenomenon.
Unprecedented heat waves have hit Canada, floods have ravaged central Europe and China, and fires have also broken out in the Mediterranean basin.
The consequences of climate change are already here and are irreversible, while humanity is at a decisive moment to reverse it.