A man pours water on his face to cool off on a hot summer day in Guwahati, India, Saturday, May 25, 2024. Month after month, global temperatures are setting new records. (Photo: AP/Anupam Nath
This aerial photo shows a boat during low water levels at the Chibaish marshes in Nasiriyah of southern Iraq, Thursday, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)
Voters queue up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Varanasi on June 1, 2024, during the seventh and final phase of voting in India's general election. (Photo: AFP)
In a year of contrasting extremes, Europe witnessed scorching heatwaves but also catastrophic flooding, withering droughts, violent storms and its largest wildfire (Photo: AFP)
Iraqi youths swim in the Shatt al-Arab waterway at the end of a hot summer day in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Aug. 11, 2023. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
A man stands by fans spraying air mixed with water vapour deployed by donors to cool down pedestrians along a street in Iraq's capital Baghdad, June 30, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi youths react to the heat as they wait to buy ice blocks at a factory in Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, amid power outages and soaring temperatures, July 2, 2021. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
