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Summertime And Vacationing Isn't Easy. Blame It On Climate Change

Record-high temperatures and torrential rains are affecting people's long-needed summer getaways. As the climate warms, vacations may not be what they once were. People are figuring out how to adapt.
In July wildfire smoke hung over St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park in Montana (right). The haze muted the bright views amateur photographer Heather Duchow remembered from and anniversary trip 15 years ago (left).

Climate change already is making wildfires, hurricanes, heat waves and droughts more frequent and intense. The devastating effects are in the headlines regularly.

A warming climate also changes lives in subtler ways. NPR asked how more extreme weather is affecting summer plans.

For Maryland graduate student A. Carey, 24, summer means traveling to the Bahamas for Emancipation Day, which was commemorated this year on Aug, 2. The holiday celebrates the end of

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