Crop fields in Arrecifes in eastern Argentina are dried up and abandoned as the country loses half of its seasonal soybean harvest due to drought.

Two of the largest reservoirs in the United States providing water and electricity to millions are reaching dead pool status.

California's wildfire spreads rapidly in the state's central mountains, with blaze sweeping through mountains northeast of San Francisco in a matter of days.

Dinosaur tracks 113 million years old have been exposed in Texas, after ongoing drought dried up parts of the river covering them. 

Europe is facing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with two-thirds of the continent in a state of alert or warning, reducing inland shipping, electricity production and the yields of certain crops, a European Union agency said.

Some 22 million people are at risk of starvation in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa, the UN warns.

The vast swathes of England have been hit by an unprecedented drought following the driest July in the United Kingdom since 1935, with households facing another surge in food prices.