Jean E. Roche / Flooded petrol station in Arles city flooded by the Rhone in December 2003. Camargue, France.

Jean E. Roche / Flooded cars in scrapyard in Arles city flooded by the Rhone in December 2003. Camargue, France.

Denis-Huot / Lion (Panthera leo) male with bloody mane and flies, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

David Tipling / Aftermath of a bush fire near Charter Towers, Queensland, Australia

Juergen Freund / Banana farm after Cyclone Yasi, Innisfail, Queensland, Australia, February 2011

Juergen Freund / Coral reefs exposed by the April 2nd 2007 earthquake that lifted the island of Ranongga by 3m, Solomon Islands, Pacific, July 2010

Juergen Freund / Old coral reef destroyed by dynamite fishing. New corals are not able to colonise the rubble. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January 2010

Ashley Cooper / Forest fire destroys an area of forest in the Little Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Most of California was in exceptional drought, the highest classification of drought, whi...

Ashley Cooper / Forest fire destroyed area of forest in the Little Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Most of California was in exceptional drought, the highest classification of drought, which...

Ashley Cooper / Forest fire destroyed area of forest in the Little Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Most of California was in exceptional drought, the highest classification of drought, which...

Ashley Cooper / Wildfire damage in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Most of California was in exceptional drought, the highest classification of drought, which lea to an increasing number of wild fires. Octo...

Ashley Cooper / The King Fire that burned 97,717 acres of the El Dorado National Forest, California, USA. This picture was taken during a severe drought in which wild fires are much more common. October 2014