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Wednesday

U.S. skies in the Northeast and the Midwest are hazy with smoke from Canada

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Record-breaking wildfires in Canada are impacting air quality in the U.S.

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The sun rises over a hazy New York City skyline as seen from Jersey City, N.J., Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption

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Canadian wildfires are raising air quality alarms across much of the Eastern U.S.

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Tuesday

Colorado pushes ahead in green hydrogen — a new technology to curb global warming

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Saturday

Department of Natural Resources and Renewables firefighter Kalen MacMullin of Sydney, Nova Scotia, works on a fire in Shelburne County, N.S. on Thursday. Rain and a rainy forecast for the weekend have fire officials hopeful. Communications Nova Scotia/The Canadian Press via AP hide caption

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The risk of wildfires is making insurance companies turn away from California

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High tides have destroyed roads and structures in Vietnam as rising sea levels threaten farmland in the country's Mekong River Delta. Linh Pham/Getty Images hide caption

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Friday

Take a yearlong road trip where the weather is perfect

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New Orleans neighbors create spaces that can operate off the grid after hurricanes

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This Aug 25, 2020 image captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the planet Jupiter and one of its moons, Europa, at left, when the planet was 406 million miles from Earth. AP hide caption

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NASA is sending an Ada Limón poem to Jupiter's moon Europa — and maybe your name too?

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Thursday

In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, the Central Arizona Project canal runs through rural desert near Phoenix. The canal diverts Colorado River water down a 336-mile long system of aqueducts, tunnels, pumping plants and pipelines to the state of Arizona. Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption

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A resident bails water from a flooded home in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Catano, Puerto Rico in 2017. Climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous. Carlos Giusti/AP hide caption

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How to prepare for the 2023 hurricane season with climate change in mind

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