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A mother carries her child past the carcasses of livestock that died as a result of a severe drought in Marsabit, Kenya.

There is a 50:50 chance of average global temperature reaching 1.5 degrees Celcius above pre-industrial levels in the next five years, and the likelihood is increasing with time, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), published on Tuesday in Geneva.

An elderly woman has her lunch in the sun at Adibasi Sahi, India. The extreme heat is impacting hundreds of millions of people in the country.

Improved urban planning and construction can help to mitigate natural disasters like earthquakes, as pictured in Haiti.

A crescent earthrise captured by a US astronaut in 1969.

The crew of Apollo 17 captured this image of the Earth five hours after liftoff into their journey to the Moon in 1972.

Climate change is impacting Tunisia's coastal zones affecting both humans and marine biodiversity.

A view of Seoul in South Korea.

Young Moroccan climate activists and entrepreneurs are taking a group photo with Sylvia Lopez-Ekra in Morocco.

Since the 1980s, each decade has been warmer than the previous one.