A child watches swans off the Torre Faro Pilone beach, near Messina, on the island of Sicily, during a heat wave on July 16, 2023. Tens of millions of people were battling dangerously high temperatures around the world on July 16, 2023, as record heat forecasts hung over parts of the United States, Europe and Asia, in the latest example of the threat from global warming. (Photo by Giovanni Isolino/AFP Photo)
