Throughout the summer, droughts have ravaged California and Brazil. Wildfires raged and burned in the American West, Europe, and Asia. A heat wave in the Middle East brought temperatures over 120 degrees Fahrenheit to Iraq — and it felt like 164 F in Iran. July was the hottest month ever recorded. Scientists are trying to figure out if super-hot summers exacerbated by climate change are just the new normal. Scroll through for a look at the way people around the globe sweated through a sweltering month. GREECE DEALT WITH EXTREME HEAT ALONG WITH A DEBT CRISIS. THIS MAN TRIED TO STAY COOL AT A BEACH OUTSIDE OF ATHENS. ABOUT 500 KM AWAY, IN ANOTHER PART OF GREECE, LOCAL RESIDENTS NEAR THE TOWN OF NEAPOLI STRUGGLED TO EXTINGUISH THIS WILDFIRE. SUCH FIRES RAISED ALARM AROUND THE WORLD THIS SUMMER. FIREFIGHTERS IN THE WEST WORKED TO CONTAIN BLAZES LIKE THIS ONE IN LAKE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: Harrison Ford has some advice for the new ‘Star Wars’ cast in his first on-camera interview since the accident
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