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Burning Question: How Will Climate Change Impact Western Wildfires?
2013-07-03 22:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Climate change will dramatically alter wildfire patterns in the western United States before the century ends, studies show. Experts are reluctant to paint a broad picture of future fire risk because fires vary so drastically among regions -- a forest fire in high-elevation Colorado, for example, is vastly different than coastal, chaparral-fed flames in California. But many fire scientists agree the doomsday scenario of massive fires that wreak death and destruction can be quashed through smarter...
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No fire without smoke: wood stove trend creates a burning issue
2013-07-03 06:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: While the smell of woody fires and a soft smoky haze across some country towns is as welcome a sign of winter arriving as fallen autumn leaves, few realise that domestic solid fuel burning contributes more polluting particulate matter than cars to the atmosphere every year. Retail sales of wood burners over the past four winters have jumped by 20% across Australia, and record numbers of permits are being issued for domestic wood collection as increasing numbers spend frosty nights by the fire...
ODEQ to investigate illegal burning
2013-06-25 04:47:17| Waste Management - Topix.net
Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality officials confirmed Friday they will be looking into reports of illegal brush-burning at the Tahlequah Street Department's facilities.
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Chemical Plant Fire Burning Southwest Of Peoria
2013-06-24 21:00:59| Electronics - Topix.net
Authorities have opened a state highway as they make progress in fighting a fire at a chemical plant southwest of Peoria.
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Haze: DOE bans open burning in several states
2013-06-24 16:21:05| Waste Management - Topix.net
She said the ban was imposed according to Section 29AA of the Environmental Quality Act 2001 which carries a fine up to RM500,000 or imprisonment up to five years, or both.
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