Over the past month, record-setting high temperatures have been recorded across the northern hemisphere. Sometimes dangerous heat waves in Europe, Asia, and North America have driven people to beaches, lakes, water parks, even air-conditioned grocery stores, to find relief. Collected here, recent images of people and animals doing what they can to beat the heat.
Photos: Trying to Keep Cool
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People rest on sleeping mats in the refrigerated section of a local grocery store, after the store invited customers to attend a sleepover to cool off as the heatwave continues in Helsinki, Finland, on August 4, 2018. #
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Jonathan Paredes of Mexico dives from the 27-meter platform during the final competition day of the fourth stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Sisikon, Switzerland, on August 5, 2018. #
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A group of urban street dancers practice in front of the Eiffel Tower in the Trocadero fountain to keep cool as summer temperature soar in the French capital on July 26, 2018. #
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Kashmiri boys jump and swim in a canal in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India, on August 6, 2018. With a lack of swimming pools around, young boys often throng to canals, rivers and lakes during summer months to get some relief from heat. #
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People line up to jump off a diving tower on the shore of Lake Ammersee near the small Bavarian village of Utting, Germany, as the heatwave in Europe continues on August 4, 2018. #
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