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Children use a makeshift "boat" to cross a flooded street in Manila as heavy rains hit the Philippine capital.—Photo by AFP
Children use a makeshift "boat" to cross a flooded street in Manila as heavy rains hit the Philippine capital.—Photo by AFP
Lightning flashes behind an air traffic control tower at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada. Thunderstorms swept across the area on Sunday prompting the National Weather Service to issue multiple severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings.—Photo by AFP
Lightning flashes behind an air traffic control tower at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada. Thunderstorms swept across the area on Sunday prompting the National Weather Service to issue multiple severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings.—Photo by AFP
Children from a non governmental organization dance during a flash mob to raise funds for Uttarakhand floods victims, in New Delhi, India. Thousands of people were killed and equal numbers of people went missing after devastating floods, cloud burst and landslides struck in June 2013 in northern Indian state of Uttarakhand .—Photo by AP
Children from a non governmental organization dance during a flash mob to raise funds for Uttarakhand floods victims, in New Delhi, India. Thousands of people were killed and equal numbers of people went missing after devastating floods, cloud burst and landslides struck in June 2013 in northern Indian state of Uttarakhand .—Photo by AP
Residents push their dog on top of a container across a flooded street in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines Monday. —Photo by AP
Residents push their dog on top of a container across a flooded street in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines Monday. —Photo by AP
Rescuers putting sand bags along a destroyed road in flood-hit Hongshi township of Huadian, northeast China's Jilin province. Twenty-five people have been killed by floods which hit northeastern China over the past week, state media said.—Photo by AFP
Rescuers putting sand bags along a destroyed road in flood-hit Hongshi township of Huadian, northeast China's Jilin province. Twenty-five people have been killed by floods which hit northeastern China over the past week, state media said.—Photo by AFP
Residents wade through floodwater brought by monsoon rain, intensified by tropical storm Trami, in Kawit town of Cavite city, south of Manila.—Photo by Reuters
Residents wade through floodwater brought by monsoon rain, intensified by tropical storm Trami, in Kawit town of Cavite city, south of Manila.—Photo by Reuters
Flood-affected residents wade through flood waters at Kala Shah Kako. Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods affecting more than 300,000 people across Pakistan in the last two weeks and killed 108 others.—Photo by AFP
Flood-affected residents wade through flood waters at Kala Shah Kako. Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods affecting more than 300,000 people across Pakistan in the last two weeks and killed 108 others.—Photo by AFP
Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods affecting more than 300,000 people across Pakistan in the last two weeks and killed 108 others, disaster management officials said.—Photo by AFP
Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods affecting more than 300,000 people across Pakistan in the last two weeks and killed 108 others, disaster management officials said.—Photo by AFP
People look at flood waters at Kala Shah Kako.—Photo by AFP
People look at flood waters at Kala Shah Kako.—Photo by AFP
People wade through a flooded street near the overflowing Songhua River in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. Floods that have affected northeast China's Heilongjiang province since August 10, were the most severe to hit the area in decades and have killed 11 people and left three others missing, Xinhua News Agency reported.—Photo by Reuters
People wade through a flooded street near the overflowing Songhua River in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. Floods that have affected northeast China's Heilongjiang province since August 10, were the most severe to hit the area in decades and have killed 11 people and left three others missing, Xinhua News Agency reported.—Photo by Reuters
Soldiers and local residents reinforce an embankment to prevent flood from an overflowing river in Heihe, Heilongjiang province.—Photo by Reuters
Soldiers and local residents reinforce an embankment to prevent flood from an overflowing river in Heihe, Heilongjiang province.—Photo by Reuters

As climate change increasingly becomes a tangible threat to the world as we know it, agencies photographed some scenes of distraught devastation in Asia this summer.—Images by Agencies

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