19 photos that show life around the world in the hottest month ever recorded

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.