Climate change is now threatening a pillar of childhood: summer break

When summer rolls around, many parents scramble to sign up their young kids for outdoor activities. But what do you do when extreme heat and wildfire smoke increasingly make the outdoors dangerous?

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4000x1848+0+0/resize/4000x1848!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff3%2Fcf%2Faaefeffe4558a6a54616250869d1%2Fwidjiwagan-smoke.jpg' alt='Camp Widjiwagan in Ely, Minn., was blanketed by wildfire smoke in July.'/><p>When summer rolls around, many parents scramble to sign up their young kids for outdoor activities. But what do you do when extreme heat and wildfire smoke increasingly make the outdoors dangerous?</p><p>(Image credit: YMCA of the North)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-5900911' />