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A vicious cycle on Western wildfires
2013-09-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: The announcement from U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell was an ominous one. With firefighting money running out, last month he ordered managers to divert money from other programs to fund firefighting. On the one hand, it makes sense. At the height of firefighting season, you cannot risk having no cash to pay for fire suppression. It has happened so often it has a nickname: Fire borrowing. The trouble with that scenario is it siphons money from the programs designed to lessen the...
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Climate Change Worsens Wildfires: Blazes Increase by 2050
2013-08-30 13:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science World Report: Wildfires have become a major issue as they blaze across acres of land, consuming trees, dry grass, houses and anything else in their path. We may have to get used to more of these fires in the future, though. It turns out that climate change may be worsening wildfires and that by 2050, the wildfire season will be about three weeks longer, twice as smoky and will burn a wider area in western states. As our climate continues to change, global conditions are shifting. Some areas are becoming drier...
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Wildfires to Become Bigger, Smokier and More Frequent by 2050
2013-08-29 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Wildfires will burn longer, wider and create more smoke by the year 2050, according to a new study by Harvard University researchers that brings with it some bad news for fire crews battling blazes across the western United States. California's Rim Fire, for instance, has burned nearly 200,000 acres of forest since it ignited two weeks ago and fire crews don't expect to have the largest active wildfire in the country contained for another two weeks to come. If predictions made by the Harvard...
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Illegal wildfires to clear land for palm plantations seen in Indonesia
2013-08-28 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: NASA has released a satellite photo it says shows widespread illegal slash-and-burn fires in Indonesia set deliberately to clear land for palm oil companies. While that kind of agricultural clearing technique has been used for centuries, the setting of such fires is now illegal in Indonesia, but plantation owners are commonly ignoring the law, environmentalists say. "Widespread, illegal burning to clear rainforests and peatlands for palm oil and pulp and paper plantation expansion is unfortunately...
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Why Big, Intense Wildfires Are the New Normal
2013-08-28 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The large wildfire burning in and around Yosemite National Park has already consumed more than 184,000 acres, and shows no signs of slowing down. The blaze, which has been dubbed "Rim Fire," is now the largest fire in the Sierra Nevada mountain range and one of the largest in California's history. elated: "With Rim Fire Near, a Look at Yosemite's History With Fire.") The Rim Fire is one of more than 30 blazes currently churning across the West. And a combination of higher temperatures, untamed...
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