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EPA: Climate change cant be stopped, prepare for wildfires, hurricanes, rising seas
2014-10-31 19:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blaze: The Environmental Protection Agency released a grim report Friday that said it must start planning for the worst possible effects of climate change, and predicted a future world filled with rising sea levels, raging wildfires and more severe storms. All of these factors will combine to create droughts, expose humans to dangerous chemicals and create other conditions that will put the human race at risk. The EPA says climate change can`t be stopped, and is preparing for the worst. "These...
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Soot from Canadian wildfires may have increased Greenland ice melt
2014-10-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Canada International: Danish-born glaciologist Jason Box who has studied glaciers for two-decades is in the second year of a study called the Dark Snow Project. He is with the Geological Survey of Greenland and Denmark. They found that soot is covering immense areas of the ice-sheet, darkening and increasing its heat absorption, causing melting to increase. The soot may be from a variety of sources including burning of coal, diesel, dung and wood. Its also thought that greatly increased soot this year is due to...
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Wildfires char more than 100,000 acres in Northern California
2014-09-12 23:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Northern California wildfire started by a lightning strike a month ago has burned more than 108,000 acres in the drought-stricken state, officials said on Friday. The fire in the Klamath National Forest started when lightning struck the Happy Camp area on Aug. 11. It was 45 percent contained on Friday. The blaze formed a large ring and grew by 882 acres on Thursday night, said Klamath National Forest spokeswoman Andrea Capps, and it is expected to continue to grow along the ring's southern perimeter...
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Wildfires threaten Yosemite other western communities
2014-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Autumn may be in the air, but the summer fire season continues to threaten communities and natural resources around the West. A 300-acre wildfire just outside Yosemite National Park in California, discovered Friday, prompted authorities to order the evacuation of hundreds of about 700 homes and the closure of some roads in the area. By midday Saturday, the fire was 25 percent contained. Farther north in bone-dry California, the Happy Camp complex of fires west of Yreka, which began nearly four...
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California asks Congress to set aside funds to fight wildfires
2014-09-06 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: With federal funds for fighting wildfires running low, officials in California on Thursday called on Congress to move forward on a stalled plan to set up an emergency reserve fund for battling the extreme blazes anticipated this fall. The call by U.S. Representative John Garamendi, a Democrat whose district near Sacramento includes parts of three national forests, the state's top firefighter and others comes days after the U.S. Forest Service said it would have to dip into money meant for fire...
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