Rain clouds move over the remnants of parched corn stalks near Wiley, on the plains of eastern Colorado, on August 22, 2012. A summer storm came too late to help farmers whose crops were decimated in the exceptional drought in Colorado's eastern plains.
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Rain clouds move over the remnants of parched corn stalks near Wiley, on the plains of eastern Colorado, on August 22, 2012. A summer storm came too late to help farmers whose crops were decimated in the exceptional drought in Colorado's eastern plains.
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An Albanian boy uses a branch to try to put out a blaze near the city of Memaliaj, Albania, on August 28, 2012. Albania has battled multiple forest fires since June after several heat waves and months of drought. <br />
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An Albanian boy uses a branch to try to put out a blaze near the city of Memaliaj, Albania, on August 28, 2012. Albania has battled multiple forest fires since June after several heat waves and months of drought.
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Pakistani villagers carry bananas at a field in Mirpur Khas in the flood-hit Sindh province on September 28, 2011. Monsoon floods that sunk Pakistan's arable belt for a second year running have piled economic woes on top of a humanitarian catastrophe facing up to 8 million people in the south.
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Pakistani villagers carry bananas at a field in Mirpur Khas in the flood-hit Sindh province on September 28, 2011. Monsoon floods that sunk Pakistan's arable belt for a second year running have piled economic woes on top of a humanitarian catastrophe facing up to 8 million people in the south.
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Pakistani villagers work in an onion field in Tando Allahyar in the flood-hit Sindh province on September 28, 2011.
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Pakistani villagers work in an onion field in Tando Allahyar in the flood-hit Sindh province on September 28, 2011.
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Corn rots, damaged by severe drought on a farm near Bruceville, Indiana, on August 16, 2012. Record heat throughout the U.S. farm belt states have curtailed crop production and likely will send corn and soybean prices to record highs, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Corn rots, damaged by severe drought on a farm near Bruceville, Indiana, on August 16, 2012. Record heat throughout the U.S. farm belt states have curtailed crop production and likely will send corn and soybean prices to record highs, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Indian residents play ball on a flooded street during heavy rains in Mumbai on August 27, 2012. The monsoon rains across the country have been more than 20% below average, sparking fears of drought among farmers who remember vividly the failure of 2009, when India suffered its worst drought in nearly four decades.
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Indian residents play ball on a flooded street during heavy rains in Mumbai on August 27, 2012. The monsoon rains across the country have been more than 20% below average, sparking fears of drought among farmers who remember vividly the failure of 2009, when India suffered its worst drought in nearly four decades.
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A day-old calf feeds on its mother in a pasture along the Bagodra-Limdi highway near Ahmedabad, India, on August 23, 2012. Thousands of cattle from drought-hit regions of Saurashtra and Kutch districts are migrating to green pastures in search of food and water due to drought-like conditions.
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A day-old calf feeds on its mother in a pasture along the Bagodra-Limdi highway near Ahmedabad, India, on August 23, 2012. Thousands of cattle from drought-hit regions of Saurashtra and Kutch districts are migrating to green pastures in search of food and water due to drought-like conditions.
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A man looks at a burnt plum tree after a fire swept through a village of Gorna Gorevnica, near Cacak, Serbia, on August 26, 2012. Serbia evacuated thousands of villagers and called in the army to help fight fires through the drought-hit western Balkans.
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A man looks at a burnt plum tree after a fire swept through a village of Gorna Gorevnica, near Cacak, Serbia, on August 26, 2012. Serbia evacuated thousands of villagers and called in the army to help fight fires through the drought-hit western Balkans.
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