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WBUR TODAY: The museum vs. the sea

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  ❤️ Donate Thursday, August 6, 2026 ☀️ Sunny and humid, with a high near 91. Good Morning Boston, A heat advisory is in effect today through Friday for almost all of Massachusetts . According to the National Weather Service, the temperature and high humidity will bring the heat index close to 100 at certain times. Remember these tips to stay cool. Now, in related news: Channeling climate change: The Boston Children's Museum is beginning work this month on a $15 million plan to protect itself from the floods and sea level rise associated with climate change . Located on the banks of the Fort Point Channel, the museum is one of Boston's most flood-exposed institutions — something leaders learned firsthand during a nasty winter storm in 2018 . "We actually started getting water in the museum," Carole Charnow, the museum's CEO, told WBUR's Dan Guzman. "And this was of grave concern to us because we know that storms are getting more frequent [and] becoming ...