The number of white storks is declining in many countries.
This summer's extreme heat is just the latest of many threats they face in Europe, Africa and on the long migration routes in between.
Nick Thorpe sent this report from Hungary about a sudden increase in stork deaths there.
A bedrock emerges from the waters of Lake Garda after a drought brought water levels to their lowest level in 15 years.
Italy's largest lake, a popular tourist destination, has been hit hard by high temperatures and a lack of significant rainfall for months.
Parts of northern Italy are experiencing the worst drought in 70 years.
Earlier this year, footage emerged of a hippopotamus being tested for Covid at a zoo near Shanghai.
Now, clips of fish and crab undergoing PCR testing have gone viral on Chinese social media.
Authorities in the Chinese coastal city of Xiamen ordered "fishermen and their seafood" to be tested after around 40 people were diagnosed with the virus.
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About 2,000 residents of Guna Yala Island will be one of the first indigenous communities in Latin America to relocate due to climate change.
Islander Magdalena Martinez, who has been campaigning for new homes on the mainland, tells the BBC how it feels to leave the island she grew up on.
The Panamanian government estimates that all of the Guna people's islands could be submerged by 2050, based on predictions by a group of independent scientists, although others believe the islands may not be submerged before the end of the century.
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A Norwegian company has developed an innovative "kite" that converts wind into electricity.
High temperatures and strong winds formed a "firenado" in California on Wednesday.
Hundreds of firefighters were called to tackle the blaze that spread during a bushfire.
No one was injured and the Los Angeles County Fire Department said no buildings were immediately threatened.
Geraint Radford from Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley photographs insects and plants in his garden.
He uses social media to try to encourage more people to get into macro photography.
He said: "Insects fight, we're conditioned to find them scary. I try to take pictures of them that show them in a new way."
"I think they have personality, I think they're funny."
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According to Reuters, glacier melt in the Alps is on the way to its largest loss of mass in at least 60 years.
The region experienced two heat waves in early summer and little snow last winter.
Zermatt, a Swiss mountain town that typically has July temperatures in the 20s, recently recorded high temperatures of 30°C (86°F).
A volcano has erupted near the capital Reykjavik in Iceland.
This created a spectacle for tourists traveling to see the glowing lava in the Meralir Valley.
One woman was so mesmerized she said she must have "cried a little" at how beautiful it was.
