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Wildfires, Climate Change And Boreal Forests
2016-05-25 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Diane Rehm Show: Since the beginning of May, a massive, out-of-control fire has been raging in boreal forest lands in Alberta, Canada. The fire forced the evacuation of more than 80,000 residents of Fort McMurray and halted oil sands production. Scientists say climate change has contributed to the growing number and severity of wildfires in the worlds boreal forests. Hot, dry weather has lengthened fire seasons and created ideal conditions for wildfires. The fires in turn increase emissions of greenhouse gases....
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Frequency and Intensity of Wildfires Across the Globe Fueled by Climate Change
2016-05-11 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Nexus: The widely destructive wildfire in Alberta has raised concerns about the frequency and intensity of wildfires across the globe fueled by climate change. Scientists have warned that along with factors such as changing land-use and firefighting methods that leave more trees and bush to burn, rising temperatures have stood out as a reason. Worldwide, from 1979 to 2013, the length of fire season has increased nearly 19 percent. In the U.S., the 10-year average number of acres burned in wildfires has...
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Nova Chemical donating funds to fight Fort McMurray wildfires
2016-05-06 18:50:43| Canadian Plastics Headlines
Calgary-based Nova Chemicals Corporation is donating $200,000 to the Canadian Red Cross to help victims of wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alberta In a May 5 statement, Nova also promised to match employee donations to the Canadian Red Cross of up… The post Nova Chemical donating funds to fight Fort McMurray wildfires appeared first on Canadian Plastics.
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Australia: Wildfires Are Burning Some of the Worlds Oldest Trees
2016-01-28 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Northwest Tasmania is home to part of the Gondwana forest. It's a stretch of primeval-looking temperate rainforest, much like the one found in the Pacific Northwest's Olympic National Park. Trees more than 1,000 years old tower above ancient ferns, forming a connection to the distant past. It's why the region has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But that connection is being broken by climate change. Fueled by extremely dry conditions that stretch back two years, major bushfires have...
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Wildfires broke record in 2015 - scorching an area seven times the size of Toronto
2016-01-11 12:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: Wildfires scorched a record amount of Canadas national parks last year the latest in a number of long, hot summers that have almost entirely depleted Parks Canadas firefighting reserve. We had a very busy fire year, said director of fire management Jeff Weir. We had more wildfires than normal and those fires burned larger areas than normal. The agencys annual fire report recorded 122 wildfires in 2015 that burned through 4,600 square kilometres seven times the area of the city of Toronto....
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