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AP PHOTOS: Hallmarks of climate change seen in floods, fires and drought around the globe

AP PHOTOS: Hallmarks of climate change seen in floods, fires and drought around the globe

The hallmarks of climate change — extreme heat and drought; larger, more intense wildfires and supercharged hurricanes, typhoons and rainstorms that lead to catastrophic flooding — are being seen and felt around the globe.

Drought in Brazil. Wildfires in Portugal, Peru and the Western U.S. Severe flooding swamping Central Europe, Southeast Asia and Western Africa.

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A wildfire consumes a rural area in Varzea Paulista, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

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Firefighers pull water hoses to put out a spot fire during the Bridge Fire in Wrightwood, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Multiple wildfires

Firefighters across northern Portugal are working to contain some 100 wildfires caused by hot, dry conditions, stretching crews thin. Fires have forced residents to flee their homes and are blamed for the deaths of at least six people, including four firefighters.

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A man carries a fire extinguisher as he speaks on the phone while a metalworking warehouse burns in Sever do Vouga, a town in northern Portugal that has been surrounded by wildfires, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruno Fonseca)

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A pig walks near the smoke rising from a wildfire in the Chiquitania forest near Concepcion, Bolivia, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

In Peru, wildfires have left at least 15 people dead since July and 22 of the nation’s 24 regions have active outbreaks. Peru’s National Forest and Wildlife Service, SERFOR, says the effects of climate change are intensifying conditions that help spread fire. In Brazil, flames were burning through Brasilia National Park.

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Members of Riverside County Cal Fire walk up a hillside while battling the Airport Fire Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in El Cariso Village, in unincorporated Riverside, County, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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A jogger passes in front of haze from various wildfires over the downtown skyline Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

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Embers fly through the smoky air as the Bridge Fire burns in Wrightwood, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

And in California, more than 8,000 firefighters were battling three major fires, all ignited during a triple-digit heatwave at the start of the month. Smoke filled Los Angeles skies while fire threatened tens of thousands of homes and other structures.

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Residents look out at the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, during the dry season in Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Hot and dry

Brazil is enduring its worst drought since nationwide measurements began over seven decades ago, with almost 60% of the country, stretching from the north to the southeast, under stress. It’s affecting neighboring Paraguay, too.

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The Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, suffers from drought in Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

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Construction workers take advantage of the record-low water level of the Paraguay River to repair the foundation of the port in Asuncion, Paraguay, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

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Milciades Gonzalez, who rents fishing boats, works near Puerto Pabla in Lambare, Paraguay, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. Gonzalez said fish are not biting amid the record-low water level brought by drought. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Drought in Brazil’s Pantanal region led on Monday to the lowest water levels on the Paraguay River in more than a century, disrupting commerce on the major waterway and creating hazards for local transport. Officials say water levels on the river dipped 89 centimeters (35 inches) below a benchmark at the port of Asunción, the capital, the lowest point in 120 years.

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Residents transport drinking water from Humaita to the Paraizinho community, along the dry Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, during the dry season, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Hot, dry conditions also are behind wildfires in Portugal.

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A boy wades through a flooded road, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Too much water

Typhoon Yagi is blamed for more than 500 deaths in Southeast Asia, almost half of them in Myanmar, where the combination of that storm and seasonal monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides. The typhoon swept into Myanmar after hitting the Philippines, Vietnam, northern Thailand and Laos, killing hundreds and leaving scores of people missing.

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Flood victims take rest at a temporary camp that opened at a monastery in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Thousands of miles away, Central Europe is struggling to cope with heavy rains and widespread flooding that’s killed six people in Romania and one each in Austria and Poland. In the Czech Republic, four people were swept away by waters and missing, police said.

Authorities say flooding could hit Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia in the coming days.

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A resident hugs her relative after being evacuated from her flooded house in Jesenik, Czech Republic, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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Soldiers pack sandbags to reinforce the dam due to the flooding of the Danube River at Pilismarot, Hungary on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Parts of southeastern North Carolina were under water after an unnamed tropical storm dumped more than 20 inches of rain. Highways in Brunswick County were still flooded Tuesday, a day after about 18 inches of rain fell in 12 hours in Carolina Beach. The same area has seen four other major floods in the past 25 years.

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Houses and buildings are partially submerged following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, Sept 10, 2024. (AP Photos/ Musa Ajit Borno)

And West Africa has experienced some of the heaviest flooding in decades this year, affecting over 2.3 million people, a threefold increase from 2023, according to the United Nations. Unusually high rains caused a major dam in Nigeria to collapse, killing 30 and displacing over 1 million. Authorities also say 281 inmates escaped after floods brought down a prison’s walls in the country’s northeast.

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People wade in a flooded street in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi, in Hanoi, Vietnam on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

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A resident is evacuated from her flooded house in Jesenik, Czech Republic, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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A helicopter hovers over flooded houses in Jesenik, Czech Republic, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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