Children cool off from summer heat under a pavement spray outside a Connecticut firehouse.
Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic Creative
A boy helps his friend get a drink of water in the warm Wisconsin August.
Photograph by Photograoh by Harris W. Nowell, National Geographic Creative
With the help of young Walter Volk, construction worker Louis Adesso cools down during the August heat in Manhattan of 1947—a record-breaking year for both summer heat and winter snows.
Photograph by New York Daily News, National Geographic Creative
Train examiner Henry Cox finds a reprieve with a beer in Cook, Australia. Until the mid 1990s, the train Cox worked on was a lifeline for remote towns, hauling provisions and mail across the outback.
Photograph by William Albert Allard, National Geographic Creative
A prisoner working in the heat on a Mississippi prison farm.
Photograph by William Albert Allard, National Geographic Creative
A Tuareg family naps in the shade, avoiding the heat of the day near Timbuktu, Mali. In recent years, droughts in the country increased in both frequency and severity.
Photograph by Joanna B. Pinneo, National Geographic Creative
A man holds tight as his Paso Fino horse rears in the oceans off the western coast of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
A child of the Untouchables caste—a hereditary sentencing of the lowest order—sleeps, cooled by the breeze of a fan in India.
Photograph by William Albert Allard, National Geographic Creative
A 14-month old female tiger dips her paws in the Patpara Nala watering hole of Bandhavgarh National Park in India.
Photograph by Steve Winter, National Geographic Creative
Women pause to enjoy a refreshing mist on a boardwalk in Paris, France.
Photograph by William Albert Allard, National Geographic Creative
A single yard sprinkler is all that’s needed for an afternoon of fun for these Maryland siblings.
Photograph by Skip Brown, National Geographic Creative