The hot temperatures are still causing problems across Europe, with damaging wildfires in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain and France. Meanwhile, California in the USA has also been hit with its biggest wildfire of the year so far, causing huge amounts of damage to land and wildlife.
Meanwhile, high above the Earth, Samantha Cristoforetti became the first European woman to conduct a spacewalk. Over the course of seven hours spent outside the International Space Station, Samantha helped to prepare the European Robotic Arm for its first operations.
In sad news, visionary scientistJames Lovelock passed away at the age of 103 this week. Lovelock is best known as the creator of the Gaia hypothesis, which proposes that life on Earth functions as a single self-regulating organism.
James Cutmore is the picture editor of BBC Science Focus Magazine. He has worked on the magazine and website for over a decade, telling compelling science stories through the use of striking imagery. He holds a degree in Fine Art, and has been nominated for the British Society of Magazine Editors Talent Awards, being highly commended in 2020. His main areas of interest include photography that highlights positive technology and the natural world. For many years he was a judge for the Wellcome Trust's image competition, as well as judging for the Royal Photographic Society.