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Four killed by wildfires in Western Australia as heatwave heads east
2015-11-18 05:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Four people have died in one of a series of wildfires sparked by lightening in Western Australia, police said on Wednesday, a deadly start to the country's summer bushfire season. Western Australia police said the deaths occurred in the North Cascade fire near Esperance, in the state's southwest, where some 300,000 hectares have been burned. The blaze is one of three major fires burning in the state since Sunday. "There was an inland trough that brought hot, dry and windy conditions, creating these...
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Wildfires May Double Erosion Across A Quarter Of Western U.S. Watersheds By 2050
2015-11-04 02:33:38| pollutiononline Home Page
In recent years, wildfires have burned trees and homes to the ground across many states in the western U.S., but the ground itself has not gotten away unscathed.
Smoke From Wildfires Is Killing Hundreds of Thousands of People
2015-10-29 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Dr. Praveen Buddiga knew he would find a packed waiting room when he arrived at his office that warm September day in California's Central Valley. White flakes drifted from the sky, as if he were inside a snow globe. The Rough Fire, a 152,000-acre blaze sparked by lightning in the Sequoia National Forest, was lofting thick smoke, soot, and ash into the air-and into the lungs of Buddiga's patients 35 miles away, in Fresno. As an allergist, Buddiga knows that wildfires pose a serious, sometimes...
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Don't dismiss the link between wildfires and climate change, scientists say
2015-10-24 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Was Gov. Jerry Brown wrong to blame this year's epic California wildfires on climate change? An Oct. 18 Times article said he was; scientists and activists responding to that article say it's a lot more complicated. Tuesday, two letters that didn't weigh in on the science underpinning The Times' reporting were published. Since then, several experts have written to say the article was wrong to assert that climate change isn't fueling the state's historically large fires. Here are some of their...
Measuring the impacts of severe wildfires in the Arctic
2015-10-22 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Based on the number of acres burned, 2015 is shaping up to be the second most extreme fire year during the past decade in North America's boreal region. Historically, the area has had one or fewer extreme fire years per decade. This season, 15 million acres burned in Alaska and Canada, according Northern Arizona University's Michelle Mack, researcher and biological sciences professor, who is leading a NASA-funded project to measure the severe fire impacts in North America. "In the boreal region,...
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