Cracked Earth from Drought

Close-ups of severely cracked soil with dry textures and some greenery, illustrating the effects of drought and climate change.

Drought land drought land Copyright: xZoonar.com/GalynaxAndrushkox 4641304

sea drought change of climate heat water sea dried up and everything receded died Copyright: xZoonar.com/max5128x 6661535

Shrinkage cracks in the peat soil, drought and climate crisis cause the peatland soil to dry out, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Green plant growing trough dead soil

Drought

Water crisis, man sit on cracked earth near drying water.

Drought Drought land Copyright: xZoonar.com/GalynaxAndrushkox 4666169

Poll photo collection. Irrigation works in Galilee. Earth cracked by drought. January 1, 1960. Galilee, Israel

Cracked dry bottom of the sea on a hot, sultry and Sunny day. Environmental disaster and drought. Cracked dry bottom of the sea on a hot, sultry and Sunny day. Environmental disaster and drought Copyright: xZoonar.com/DmitriyxPraizelx 21377428

Elderly women are sitting looking at their hands, touching the ground in dry weather, global warming, selected focus.

Cracked earth during severe drought in Keolado Ghana NP, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India

Street with medium strips in landscape street with medium strips in landscape copyright: xzoonar.com/julianxweberx 922507

Green grass grew in dry cracked ground, close up

Sommerhitze mit Thermometer Ein Thermometer zeigt sehr hohe Temperatur in der Sommerhitze hinter rissigem und ausgetrocknetem Boden in Form einer Deutschlandkarte - FOTOMONTAGE *** Summer heat with thermometer A thermometer shows a very high temperature in the summer heat behind cracked and dry ground in the form of a map of Germany FOTOMONTAGE

dried mud and river silt following huge flood disaster queensland dried mud and river silt following huge flood disaster queensland Copyright: xZoonar.com/SherylxxCastonx 2887752

Peat briquettes used for fuel in private homes are dried by the citizens themselves, Birr, Leinster, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Drought land

Children are walking barefoot on mud,selective focus

The Azraq wetland reserve in Azraq, Jordan. In 1993 the wetland dried up because of overpumping of groundwater for the Amman water supply. Now, about 10% has been restored by pip

Earth cracked in times of drought and extreme heat. France

Office of Water - One Planet Ours: Sustainability for the 22nd Century , Environmental Protection Agency

Hitze und Wassermangel in Deutschland In dem Umriss einer Deutschlandkarte sieht man trockenen Boden mit Rissen und geinen Wasserhahn mit Tropfen als Symbol für Wassermangel, FOTOMONTAGE *** Heat and water shortage in Germany In the outline of a map of Germany you can see dry ground with cracks and a water tap with drops as a symbol for water shortage, PHOTOMONTAGE

Water bottles on dry soil with dry and cracked soil,global warming

Women sit looking at the sky in dry weather and global warming.

An elderly woman is sitting looking at the sky in dry weather, the global warming

Drought land

Rice plantation drained before harvest Centers Vietnam

Women walking on cracked and dry soil in arid areas landscape, Drought crisis Concept

Dead fish in the desert

The trails have some curious features. Sometimes the clay gets pushed into a mound at the trail's end, as in this photo.

A city looks over a cracked earth landscape A city looks over a cracked earth landscape Copyright: xZoonar.com/junxpengxguix 19579273

A woman is sitting asking for rain in the dry season,global warming

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Plowed soil in the garden. Treatment of the soil in the fall.. Plowed soil in the garden. Treatment of the soil in the fall

An elderly man sat bent his knees at dry ground and hands closed on his face,global warming

The ground cracked.

Men sitting hugging their knees, bent, bent on the dry soil,global warming

Green Anaconda dying on cracked mud during dry season

The woman sat looking at the sky and asked for rain in the dry weather,global warming

Elderly men lay flat on their hands, on the stomach and forehead, on dry soil, global warming.

Rajshahi, Bangladesh - 14 April 2024: Aerial view of women collecting water from a scarce puddle in a cracked, parched landscape under the dry season sun.

Cracked dry land without wate

Elderly men lay flat, hands placed on the belly on dry and cracked soil, global warming

field, tree planting and road. The photo shows a field, tree planting and road. Copyright: xZoonar.com/AlekseyxKorneevx 7988046

Elderly men are exposed to rainwater in dry weather,global warming,selective focus

Elderly men and boy find fish on dry ground,global warming

Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Arid cracked crusty surface of the salt flat playa. Wheatgrass plants with a dense network of roots in shallow soil with bright fresh green leaves and stalks.

Man walking at cracked earth at the bottom dried up lake, Poland, Europe

Cap de Barbaria wineries Formentera, Pitiusas Islands, Balearic Community, Spain.

An elderly man sitting with dry soil and cracked in a hand held seedling,global warming

Dry ground: water shortage in hot summer, agriculture

Gabura Union, Bangladesh - 25 April 2025: Aerial view of a lone figure traversing the parched earth, carrying water against a backdrop of cracked clay and sun-baked desolation.

Drought land Growing plant on drought land Copyright: xZoonar.com/GalynaxAndrushkox 15010997

Fetish in Village Fetish used to protect Lobi village, Burkina faso Copyright: xZoonar.com/MassimoxLamax 10741405

Cracked and dry earth next to fallow crop field. Fresno County, San Joachin Valley, California, USA

A can lies in the dried mud below the retention dam at the Boulder Reservoir outside Boulder, Colorado.

Salt basin in the disused saline, Sal Rei, Boa Vista, Cape Verde, Africa

Dead mangrove forest in mismanaged coastal wetland, Australia. 01/11/2005

Peat bog nature reserve, near Zakopane. south Poland. Open-cast peat digging.

deep rifts on dry land

drought land

Thermometer zeigt sehr hohe Temperatur Auf völlig trockenem Boden mit Rissen steht ein Thermometer und die Skala zeigt sehr hohe Temperatur um 40 Grad Celsius vor blauem Himmel mit strahlender Sonne - FOTOMONTAGE *** Thermometer shows very high temperature A thermometer stands on completely dry ground with cracks and the scale shows a very high temperature of around 40 degrees Celsius against a blue sky with a bright sun PHOTOMONTAGE

Mirror on dry land at sunset Copyright: xNrupenxMadhvani/DinodiaxPhotox

Grass growing in the form of a euro symbol on parched soil

Poor agricultural practices and over-grazing have led to serious soil erosion around Lake Baringo, Kenya.

plant in desert

A member of a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team steps out of a wet-screening pond covered in mud during a DPAA recovery mission in England, May 18, 2022. The recovery team made a dam in the center of the wet-screening pond to prevent silt from clogging the hoses while the team is screening. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

Elderly men lay flat on their hands, on the stomach and forehead, on dry soil, global warming.

Deep tire tracks imprinted on a muddy terrain

Water well in desert

Opened zipper. Conceptual image with opened zipper and green grass

$Most of Victoria and New South Wales in Australia has been in the grip of an unprecedented drought for the last ten years. River levels have dropped and reservoirs are at a fractio$

Water shortage and heat in Germany

Discarded face mask lies on ground, symbolic image end of third wave of pandemic, Corona crisis, Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought Vector Illustration with Turning the Desert Into Fertile Land and Pastures in Hand Drawn Illustration

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