How people all over the world are beating this heat
See how people are cooling off.
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Brittany Herbert
Brittany is an Editorial Art and Photo Intern at Mashable. She received her Commercial Photography degree from Appalachian State University.
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Brutal heat waves have hit many parts of the world this week, and heat indices reaching the mid-triple digits have forced people to find ways to cope with the excessive weather.
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Water fountains are busy in New York and food is being fried by the sun in China.
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Check out photos showing the effects of the sweltering temperatures, below.
A boy cools off in the fountain at Washington Square Park in New York.
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Dead fish lie on the shore of a dock in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China due to the heat.
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A woman rides a motorcycle with a sun shield over her head in Bozhou, Anhui Province of China.
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Boston looks like a desert as the heat wave takes a toll on the once green grass on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Hundreds of people trying to cool off at a water park in Suining, in China's Sichuan province.
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Children play in the waterfall at The Yard Park in Washington, D.C.
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Brittany Herbert
Brittany is an Editorial Art and Photo Intern at Mashable. She received her Commercial Photography degree from Appalachian State University.
