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The lifting of a two-decade drought in federal funding for firearm injury prevention research was strongly associated with an increase in both clinical trials

Across the nation’s middle, unhealthy air from Canadian wildfires sent summer campers home and left residents coughing, and asking when this would end.

So it has come to this. A nation on its knees, struggling to breathe under extreme heat and choking smoke. For millions of Americans this morning if you go outside, you will be be hit by a wall of smoke or unrelenting heat.

Air quality warnings were issued in multiple states, including New York, although conditions were not forecast to be as bad as they were earlier this month.

Human-caused climate change is making extreme temperatures more common and also intensifying dryness that fuels catastrophic wildfires.