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Firefighters hold line against fierce Southern California wildfire
2014-05-01 22:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters made progress on Thursday against a wildfire driven by Santa Ana winds that has charred more than 1,000 acres of drought-parched scrubland east of Los Angeles, threatening a wealthy community in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains. The fire, which erupted on Wednesday morning at the Etiwanda Preserve north of the community of Rancho Cucamonga about 65 miles east of Los Angeles, was only about 10 percent contained as of Thursday morning. But fire officials said the flames,...
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Celebrate Earth Day with PBS eco-documentary 'A Fierce Green Fire'
2014-04-22 13:53:00| Solid Waste & Recycling magazine Headlines
PBS will premiere "A Fierce Green Fire" on April 22 at 9 p.m. EST.
A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet Premiers Earth Day on PBS
2014-04-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Mark Kitchells 1990 Oscar nominated documentary, Berkeley in the Sixties, covered the campus activism that disrupted the House Un-American Activities Committees hearings, launched the Free Speech Movement, fought the police at Peoples Park and inspired student spokesman Mario Savio to declare: There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you cant take part Youve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all...
As flood-soaked Britain is battered by new storm, fierce debate arises over what to do next
2014-02-12 09:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Soggy Britain is being soaked again. The River Thames has burst its banks, rail lines have been washed away, villages have been turned into islands and soldiers are out on the front lines filling sandbags. As residents battled to save their homes -- and British politicians battled one another -- yet another storm hit the U.K on Wednesday, pummeling the west coast with torrential rain and wind gusts up to 106 mph (170 kph). Here's a look at the nation's exceptionally wet and wild weather. WHAT...
Fierce Competition at Charging Stations for EVs
2014-02-10 02:14:06| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Many Owners Compulsively Top Up Their Batteries Pity the poor Tesla owner. After paying $70,000 or more to have their cake and eat it too, so to speak, it turns out that she or he is now afflicted with "range anxiety," a new disease rampant among the high-income electric-car owner demographic. Range anxiety is causing overuse of free electric car charging stations by nervous drivers, who are afraid of not making it back home or to another charging station before they run out of juice. Some of these overusers are admitted freeloaders. "If it's free, I'll take it," Michael DeLune, a Tesla owner and admitted freeloader, told the Orange County Register. "I've done that on occasions." READ MOREThe Article Fierce Competition at Charging Stations for EVs appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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