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Long road to recovery after devastating California wildfire
2016-02-16 04:31:39| Real Estate - Topix.net
A real estate agent waits to rebuild her home on the same lot she fled in September, mourning the animals she couldn't save and the family heirlooms she left behind as one of the most devastating wildfires to hit California wiped out her rural subdivision. Another evacuee survived the deadly wildfire with just a singed house, but now faces eviction.
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Groups Want To Know If Climate Change Caused Tasmania Wildfire
2016-02-04 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: With massive wildfires ravaging Tasmania`s ancient forests for more than two weeks, groups are now calling for official inquiries on whether climate change is partly to blame. As of Thursday, 70 fires remain active across this island state south of Australia, with 46 of them still out of control, according to Tasmania Fire Service. No lives have been lost, but what has been called the worst wildfire in the country`s history has burned more than 100,000 hectares (386 square miles), including up...
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Ozone levels elevated in presence of wildfire smoke
2016-01-26 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: For those living with the threat to life and property from wildfires, Colorado State University scientists have some more bad news: Wildfire smoke seems to elevate levels of ozone, a nasty air pollutant with proven adverse health effects. The influence of wildfire smoke on ozone levels during summer months in the United States is not well understood. CSU atmospheric science researchers took a comprehensive, multi-year look at this secondary, insidious effect of raging wildfires. Published in Environmental...
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Was 2015 a record wildfire year?
2016-01-24 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Wildfires scorched a vast swath of the American wilderness last year. But whether the 10 million acres that burned is a record, as the Obama administration recently announced, or an exaggeration, as some environmentalists claim, is a source of heated debate in a long-running fight over how to manage the nations forests. A network of about 30 small environmental groups that view wildfires as a natural part of the ecology and think more should be allowed to burn consider the U.S. Forest Services...
PG&E Recognized For Extraordinary Restoration Response During California Wildfire
2016-01-19 01:23:36| econline Home Page
In recognition of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) outstanding power restoration efforts during California’s devastating Valley Fire, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) presented the company with its Emergency Recovery Award
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