In Spain, high temperatures have triggered a series of wildfires, destroying around 13,000 hectares of forest and scrubland in several parts of northern Spain.
Occupying every biome on earth except the icesheets, grasses have colonised every patch of soil, from tropical to temperate forests, savannah to steppe, scrubland to desert.
In the Mediterranean, forests grow in upland areas where the absence of high temperatures during the dry summer allow mainly coniferous trees to grow instead of the usual scrubland.