Dmitri Lovetsky / AP A boy floats in the waters of the Gulf of Finland in St. Petersburg, Russia, on August 5, 2026, as the 462-meter-tall Lakhta Center is visible in the background. Toby Melville / Reuters A drone view shows All Saints’ Church surrounded by parched grassland at Blackheath Common, London, following a prolonged period of extremely dry weather, on August 1, 2026. Dan Kitwood / Getty A young dairy herd walks across a field of dry grass on August 4, 2026, in Ashford, England. According to the the National Drought Group, eight areas across southern, central, and eastern England are verging on drought conditions. Bela Szandelszky / AP People walk on a sandbar underneath the Danube’s Margareth Bridge in downtown Budapest on August 5, 2026, following the water level’s drop to never-before-seen lows. Andreea Alexandru / AP The Romanian navy detonates underwater explosives during a controlled demolition of submerged rocks to improve water flow to the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant amid exceptionally low water levels on the Danube River, in Izvoarele, Romania, on …