The sun sets behind Joshua trees in Lancaster, California where temperatures reached 41.6 degrees Celsius on July 12, as wildfires burned across more than one million acres of the western United States and Canada and scorching temperatures held their grip on areas reeling from a brutal weekend heat wave. Photo: AFP The sun sets behind Joshua trees in Lancaster, California where temperatures reached 41.6 degrees Celsius on July 12, as wildfires burned across more than one million acres of the western United States and Canada and scorching temperatures held their grip on areas reeling from a brutal weekend heat wave. Photo: AFP
The sun sets behind Joshua trees in Lancaster, California where temperatures reached 41.6 degrees Celsius on July 12, as wildfires burned across more than one million acres of the western United States and Canada and scorching temperatures held their grip on areas reeling from a brutal weekend heat wave. Photo: AFP
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The sun sets behind Joshua trees in Lancaster, California where temperatures reached 41.6 degrees Celsius on July 12, as wildfires burned across more than one million acres of the western United States and Canada and scorching temperatures held their grip on areas reeling from a brutal weekend heat wave. Photo: AFP The sun sets behind Joshua trees in Lancaster, California where temperatures reached 41.6 degrees Celsius on July 12, as wildfires burned across more than one million acres of the western United States and Canada and scorching temperatures held their grip on areas reeling from a brutal weekend heat wave. Photo: AFP
The sun sets behind Joshua trees in Lancaster, California where temperatures reached 41.6 degrees Celsius on July 12, as wildfires burned across more than one million acres of the western United States and Canada and scorching temperatures held their grip on areas reeling from a brutal weekend heat wave. Photo: AFP
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