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Raging Future American Wildfires
2015-08-27 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CityLab: On the one hand, the warming atmosphere is predicted to drench many parts of the U.S. with extreme rain. On the other, for much of the year it`ll likely desiccate vast areas into brittle tinder, setting the stage for more frequent and powerful wildfires. Increasingly balmy temperatures and a steady lengthening of the wildfire season (peep what`s happening this year in Alaska and Canada) will light a flame under America`s fire potential. By mid-century, large hunks of the country-including the...
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Smoke grounds aircraft battling some Washington wildfires
2015-08-27 12:43:22| Energy - Topix.net
Dennis Godfrey, with the Great Basin Incident Management Team 4, walks across a bridge from the Gorge Powerhouse, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, near Newhalem, Wash.
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The local health effects of Washingtons wildfires
2015-08-27 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Crosscut: This past weekend, the Seattle skyline and crests of the Cascade and Olympic Mountains faded behind a hovering white haze. While the scene was unexpected to anybody new in the area, residents familiar with the seasonal occurrence of summer wildfires collectively sighed and coughed from the understanding that we were in the direct jet stream of the states raging fires, burning just over 200 miles northeast in Okanogan County. Washington is now seeing the largest wildfires in its recorded history,...
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Massive wildfires have the world's deepest lake surrounded
2015-08-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Dozens of large wildfires are burning out of control around Lake Baikal in Siberia, which is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume and the deepest lake, at more than 5,300 feet deep. The Lake Baikal area is a popular recreational area during the summer, with campgrounds and cottages surrounding the shoreline. Because of the composition of the soil in this part of the world, these fires are spewing unusually high amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, thereby contributing to global warming....
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6 Trending Headlines: Beta agonists get a pass, PLUS: Ranchers look to recover after devastating wildfires
2015-08-24 18:04:00| Beef
As wildfires burn the West, the heat ratchets up in Washington over how federal lands are managed. That and more tops the news of interest in this weeks Trending Headlines. read more
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