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California wildfire season: 43 percent more fires, so far
2013-08-10 23:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: California truly is the Golden State this summer -- golden brown -- and that has fire officials worried heading into the peak of the wildfire season. It's still weeks before the fire-fanning Santa Ana winds usually arrive and already it's been a brutal fire season, with nearly twice as many acres (hectares) burned statewide from a year ago, including 19,000 acres (7,690 hectares) scorched this week in a blaze still raging in the mountains 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Los Angeles. So far...
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SDG&E Responds to Transformer Fires
2013-08-01 21:10:00| Transmission & Distribution World
By Hal Mortier, San Diego Gas & Electric Utility implements emergency response plan to prepare for potential equipment fires in its service territory. read more
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Samsung caught artificially inflating Galaxy S4 benchmark results, fires back non-explanatory explanation
2013-07-31 19:08:42| Extremetech
Samsung is the latest company caught with its hand in the benchmarking cookie jar, and the company's protestations of innocence ring false.
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Drought-weakened trees more likely to die in fires
2013-07-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: rolonged droughts are causing more trees to die in forest fires in the western United States, according to a new study that looked at decades of controlled fire data. Climate change is heating up and drying up the American West, and these two changes are weakening trees, which makes them less able to resist the effects of fire, the authors of the study conclude. "What we're interested in is trying to understand what the climate might be in relation to a fire event," Phil van Mantgem, a research...
Once Resilient, Trees In The West Now More Vulnerable To Fires
2013-07-29 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: On any given day, there's a wildfire burning somewhere in the U.S. - and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Many western forests have evolved with fire, and actually benefit from the occasional wildfire. A nice little ground fire every few decades cleans house in the forest. It burns the grass and brush, and maybe some smaller trees - the "ladder fuels" that might carry a fire up into the tree canopy. Those canopy fires are the worst kind - they kill forests. But scientists are discovering...
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