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KOIN: Earthquake gas valves stop fires
2013-10-31 17:15:04| PortlandOnline
October 30, 2013 | KOIN.com, Sally Showman
Missing logic of Australian prime minister's denial of climate change link to bush fires
2013-10-29 03:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: o wanders into a classroom full of five-year-olds, sits down, pulls out a packet of cigarettes and starts to smoke them, exhaling puffs of cancer-inducing haze that waft into the little kids' faces. "Please stop that," pleads one of the children. "My mummy says smoking gives you cancer." "Rubbish," replies the smoker. "People have been dying of cancer ever since humans have walked the Earth. How did the cavemen die of cancer before cigarettes were invented, eh?" Clearly, our cancer-stick...
Kenya: Kwale Sugar Fires Three Workers
2013-10-28 06:43:30| Sugar Industry News
KWALE International Sugar Company has once again fired its workers for allegedly reporting their plights to the media. Recently the company sent home 28 of its plant operators when they demanded increment of their daily pay.
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Australia: Fires incite political debate over climate change
2013-10-27 01:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: As bushfires devastated parts of New South Wales, the political sphere was heating up over whether global warming is behind the ferocity of the Australian fire season. (Song plays throughout: Change - Flume) (Footage of the bushfires is shown) TRACY BOWDEN, ABC REPORTER, 7.30: Is this climate change in action? ANNABELLE CRABB, 7.30 PRESENTER: Behind the fire-front a secondary battle is underway CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONENT, CNN: Is there a link between climate...
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Plane fighting Australia fires crashes as cooler weather eases threat
2013-10-24 06:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A plane dousing wildfires in bushland south of Australia's biggest city, Sydney, crashed into a national park on Thursday, killing the pilot and sparking a new fire to add to 55 still burning across the state of New South Wales. The accident happened as more dry, windy conditions caused a flare-up in huge fires burning for a week in mountains to the west of Sydney, closing roads and entering a valley running down towards the metropolitan area. "It's hard to definitely say that (the worst is...
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