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Crews battle wildfires threatening homes in Pacific Northwest
2013-08-01 00:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters in Washington state and Oregon were grappling on Wednesday with blazes that have blackened more than 200 square miles of terrain across the Pacific Northwest, forcing hundreds of residents to flee their homes. In Washington, some 1,700 firefighters worked to contain a pair of fires that have charred a combined 85,000 acres east of the Cascade Range, destroying at least three homes and several outbuildings, said state Emergency Management Division spokesman Mark Clemens. The so-called...
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KGW: Governor declares state of emergency in SW Oregon for wildfires
2013-07-31 01:51:48| PortlandOnline
News story posted to KGW.com July 30, 2013.
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More wildfires = more warming = more wildfires
2013-07-30 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: To step into the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility in Fox, Alaska just north of Fairbanks is to step back in time. Burrowed into the silt layers of an unassuming hillside, the tunnel is like a scene out of a subarctic Indiana Jones adventure. Shivering, you walk the length of an underground football field, past protruding bones of Ice Age animals (including mammoths) and huge ice wedges, which were frozen in place long before Hebrew scribes compiled the Old Testament....
KGW: Oregon, Washington crews battle new and growing wildfires
2013-07-29 18:54:47| PortlandOnline
News story posted to KGW.com July 29, 2013.
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Alaskas latest climate worries: Massive wildfires and gushing glaciers
2013-07-23 23:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. Alaska, by the looks of it, is on track for a double apocalypse. The home of Sarah global warming my gluteus maximus Palin faces a daunting confluence of climate-related challenges, from rising seas to gushing glaciers to massive wildfires. Even Mayor Stubbs (who wed expect to be cool about this kind of thing) wont answer questions about the states fate. Raging blazes in Arizona and Colorado have dominated wildfire news in recent years,...
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