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Heatwave: city centre road melts and wildfires blaze across Britain
2013-07-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: A 15-year-old boy is thought to have drowned in a river in the latest heatwave water death. The teenager was airlifted to hospital after the incident in Roe Valley Country Park near Limavady, Northern Ireland, yesterday afternoon, but died in hospital. It takes the death toll of water-related deaths to 14 since Britain's longest heatwave for seven years began. According to Public Health England, 650 people died in the hot weather from July 6 to July 14, with more deaths likely to have added...
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07.17.13 -- Wildfires May Contribute More To Global Warming Than Previously Predicted
2013-07-16 02:29:57| pollutiononline News Articles
07/17/13Pollution Online Newsletter
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Interactive Map Links Climate Change and Wildfires in Western States
2013-07-15 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A new interactive tool produced by Climate Central illustrates how rising temperatures and reduced snowpack in the western U.S. have corresponded with an increase in wildfires in recent decades. Based on federal wildfire data from 1970 to 2012, the graphic shows how large fires in some western states--including Arizona, Colorado and Idaho--have doubled or even tripled in four decades, a period when the average spring and summer temperatures in 11 states increased by more than 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit....
Wildfires May Contribute More To Global Warming Than Previously Predicted
2013-07-15 05:06:46| pollutiononline News Articles
Wildfires produce a witch’s brew of carbon-containing particles, as anyone downwind of a forest fire can attest. A range of fine carbonaceous particles rising high into the air significantly degrade air quality, damaging human and wildlife health, and interacting with sunlight to affect climate
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The misplaced war against Western wildfires
2013-07-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: The simplest way to describe fire worldwide is that there is too much of the wrong kind, too little of the right kind, and too much overall. The wrong kinds are those such as the blaze that killed 19 firefighters in Arizona, or those that have put southeast Asia under a pall, that incinerate communities, befoul ecosystems with effluents, and trash biotas by burning at the wrong times and intensities. The right kinds are those that perform an ecological service by burning landscapes properly --...
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