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After weeks of extreme heat, health officials have reported numerous deaths, while emergency departments across the state are seeing record numbers of people seeking treatment for heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires that turned skies along the East Coast a sickly yellow also brought air quality alerts to much of the Midwest last week. Climate experts say that as the planet continues to warm, this kind of spring will become less of an anomaly. In the process, air quality will continue to worsen, as will its impact on human health.
As Canadian blazes send haze down to Minnesota, New York and elsewhere, there are ways to avoid the damage from fine particles in the air, experts said.
The Jewish Museum of Maryland will be closing its doors for a year as it works on modernizing its museum experience.
Canadian wildfires are burning earlier than expected this year, and could bring poor air quality on and off through the summer.