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Wildfires in Washington state threaten homes, prompt evacuations
2015-07-13 01:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Two lightning-sparked wildfires roared largely unchecked for a third day on Sunday in north-central Washington state, threatening more than two dozen homes and prompting the evacuation of about 300 dwellings, officials said. The flames have charred nearly 20,000 acres (80 square km) since erupting on Friday in the grass- and brush-covered hills of Douglas County, authorities said. One of the two fires grew out of four separate blazes that later merged into one. No injuries have been reported, but...
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Saskatchewan Wildfires Could Burn Months
2015-07-10 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The fires burning in northern Saskatchewan could burn until the first snowfall, according to researchers. Kerry Anderson, a research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service, said the weather pattern known as El Nino, which is caused by the warming of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, is responsible. He expects weather conditions will settle down in Saskatchewan in the coming weeks, but warmer than normal temperatures will likely persist in B.C. and Alberta. Anderson said...
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Saskatchewan evacuating thousands more as wildfires spread
2015-07-05 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Western Canadian province of Saskatchewan said on Sunday it was evacuating an additional 8,000 people from the far north of the province, as wildfires continue to spread and threaten homes. The provincial government said that as of Saturday there were 114 active fires in the province. More than 5,000 residents have already been moved out of the area in the past week. The latest evacuations are around the town of La Ronge, roughly 600 km (370 miles) north of the provincial capital, Regina. ...
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Saving West's iconic landscapes from wildfires, one steppe at a time
2015-07-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: The landscape is quintessentially western vast expanses of sage-covered steppe punctuated by plateaus and mesas etched with canyons. Known as the Greater Sheldon-Hart Mountain landscape, the tract is billed as one of the few remaining large parcels of sage-steppe habitat in the United States. Now, it's one of 10 pilot projects in a new US Interior Department program aimed at improving the resilience of iconic, ecologically important landscapes to wildfires. The fire resilience concept isn't...
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Alaska wildfires char nearly 2 million acres, send smoke to South Carolina
2015-07-02 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Alaska is on track to have one of its worst wildfire seasons on record, propelled by a combination of warming average temperatures, a historically mild, relatively snowless winter and extremely mild spring. So far this year, 1.88 million acres have gone up in smoke, from 617 individual fires. June 2015 beat June of 2004 in terms of both number of fires and amount of acres burned, which means this year is now outpacing the state's worst wildfire season ever recorded. With hundreds of fires still...
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