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Wildfire Smoke Affecting Millions of Americans, Report Warns
2013-10-25 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Wildfires are putting more and more Americans at risk, and not just those in the path of the blaze. In 2011, more than 200 million were affected by harmful wildfire smoke as it drifted across state and county lines, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) warns in a new report entitled "Where There's Fire, There's Smoke." The study determined that the area affected by smoke is roughly 50 times greater than the area burned by fire, with about two-thirds of Americans affected in 2011, one of...
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Australia merges blazes in wildfire battle to prevent 'megafire'
2013-10-22 00:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Firefighters on Tuesday deliberately merged two major blazes in southeastern Australia in a desperate battle to manage the advancing infernos as weather conditions worsen. Crews made up largely of volunteers worked through the night along trails in heavily forested areas west of Sydney to try to prevent the fires becoming one out-of-control "megafire" that could race towards a third blaze nearby. Firefighters have been battling wildfires across the state of New South Wales since they flared...
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Australias Wildfire Season Has Started, and It Isnt Even Summer Yet
2013-10-01 01:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: When the writers of the long-running Australian soap opera Home and Away return to work, theyll have plenty of real-life drama to inspire fresh story lines. On Sept. 28, an out-of-season bushfire as wildfires are called in Australia stripped bare 17 hectares of bushland overlooking Palm Beach, the golden strip of sand 45 km north of Sydney where the soap is set. A quick response by 80 firefighters and three helicopters saved a handful of bush walkers caught up in the middle of the inferno. Also...
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Calif. utility agrees to $1.8M wildfire settlement
2013-09-17 09:49:01| Energy - Topix.net
Southern California Edison has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2007 wildfire that burned about two square miles of Sequoia National Forest land.
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Wildfire Credit Union Selects DNA from Fiserv
2013-09-10 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
• Progressive credit union chooses DNA and integrated solutions from Fiserv to accelerate growth<br /> • Person-centric DNA to enhance service for the more than 37,000 retail and business members of Wildfire<br /> • DNA platform's advanced architecture and standards-based DNAcreator toolkit were key factors in the credit union's decision<br /> <br /> Brookfield, Wis. -- Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today ...This story is related to the following:Accounting & Financial Software | Business Intelligence Software |
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