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Alaskas terrifying wildfire season and what it says about climate change
2015-07-27 00:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Hundreds of wildfires are continually whipping across this state this summer, leaving in their wake millions of acres of charred trees and blackened earth. At the Fairbanks compound of the states Division of Forestry recently, workers were busy washing a mountain of soot-covered fire hoses, which stood in piles roughly six feet high and 100?feet long. About 3,500 smokejumpers, hotshot crews, helicopter teams and other workers have traveled to Alaska this year from across the country and Canada....
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B.C. fires: Christy Clark blames climate change for wildfire increase
2015-07-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: B.C. Premier Christy Clark says wildfire seasons like the one the province is currently experiencing will become more common because of climate change. "Climate change has altered the terrain. It's made us much more vulnerable to fire," said Clark. "We have to be planning with the knowledge that this isn't going to be an unusual year." The premier made the remarks at the site of the Westside Road fire near West Kelowna after flying over the area to view the damage. There are 248 fires...
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Wildfire Rages Across Glacier National Park
2015-07-23 15:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Firefighters battling a blaze in Montanas Glacier National Park may see relief from the hot, dry and windy conditions that have worked against them, as a cold front sweeps toward the Northern Rocky Mountains this weekend. A severe drought has fueled multiple fires burning in the Western U.S., threatening homes and watersheds in California and Washington state. "Much cooler temperatures are expected in Glacier National Park the next few days, with highs in the 50s on Sunday, and possibly staying...
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Study finds climate change is increasing length of wildfire seasons across globe
2015-07-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent Record: The length of wildfire seasons across the globe and the burnable areas of Earths surface have drastically increased in the past three decades due to climate change, according to a groundbreaking new study supported by years of research from the U.S. Forest Service's Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory. In a paper published Tuesday in the international journal Nature Communications, a team of researchers concluded that from 1979 to 2013, fire weather seasons have lengthened across 18.39 million square...
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Wildfire Worries Rage In Typically 'Wet' Washington State
2015-07-15 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The iconic forests of the Pacific Northwest with their towering, moss-covered fir and pine trees have never been this dry. The grass underneath the ferns has already turned gold. Of the five large wildfires burning in Washington alone right now, one has scorched more than 1,500 acres of a rainforest on the typically misty Olympic Peninsula. The wildfire threat in the drought-stricken Pacific Northwest right now is extraordinary, and there are concerns that the region may not be prepared for...
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