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Watch Western Wildfires Burn After Years Drought
2015-09-03 16:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Visiting Alaska on Tuesday to highlight the dangers of climate change, President Barack Obama summoned up powerful images of the hundreds of wildfires that have burned across the state this summer: "More than five million acres in Alaska have already been scorched by fire this year-that's an area about the size of Massachusetts." The Alaska megafires have helped make this an unprecedented wildfire season. Fires raging across the American West have set records for size and property damage, badly...
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Strasburg issues mandatory measures in drought emergency
2015-09-01 02:59:01| Waste Management - Topix.net
Flow levels in the North Fork of the Shenandoah River prompted the town to issue the alert. Strasburg must follow a drought response plan as required under its Virginia Water Protection withdrawal permit issued by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and provisions set forth by the Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Water Supply Plan.
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Humans to Blame for Catastrophic Drought in California, Scientists Say
2015-08-28 16:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: One way or another, humans are to blame for the catastrophic drought in California that scientists say may be emerging as a new normal. Either humans have mismanaged the states water or human-triggered global warming has begun to help turn Americas landscape of wine and roses into a dustbowl, according to two new studies. And the arguments have relevance extending far beyond the U.S. west, as the European Drought Observatory has warned that much of mainland Europe is now caught up in the continents...
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As giant sequoias get a drought checkup, there's good news and bad
2015-08-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Sixty feet from the top of a giant sequoia named Kong, biologist Anthony Ambrose studied the foliage around him. Dense clusters of green leaves grew like shaving brushes from the branches, cones clustered like Indian clubs. Topping out 25 stories above the ground, Kong was spectacular, an ancient beastly creature well-suited for its name. Its trunk at the base measured 17 feet across. This broccoli top, Ambrose thought, was doing well, much like the other sequoias he had climbed. Water and...
Drought becoming new normal for Californians
2015-08-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: One way or another, humans are to blame for the catastrophic drought in California that scientists say may be emerging as a new normal. Either humans have mismanaged the states water, or human-triggered global warming has begun to help turn Americas landscape of wine and roses into a dustbowl, according to two new studies. And the arguments have relevance extending far beyond the US west, as the European Drought Observatory has warned that much of mainland Europe is now caught up in the...
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