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Western drought intensifies, leads to deadly wildfires
2013-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A record-breaking heat wave intensified drought conditions in much of the West during the past week, with 72 percent of the land area in the 10 Western states now in drought conditions, according to the latest update to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The worst impacts of the drought are concentrated in the Southwest: New Mexico, Texas, Southern Colorado and the western parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska all contain land that is under extreme or exceptional drought. The hot weather -- Denver had...
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How climate change makes wildfires worse
2013-06-15 14:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Last year, Colorado suffered from a record-breaking wildfire season: More than 4,000 fires resulted in six deaths, the destruction of 648 buildings, and a half a billion dollars in property damage. Still reeling, Coloradans are once again fleeing in their thousands from a string of drought-fueled fires. So what role is climate change playing in the worsening wildfires? Here`s what we`ve learned: Is climate change making wildfires worse? Big wildfires like Colorado`s thrive in dry air, low...
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How Climate Change Makes Wildfires Worse
2013-06-13 12:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Last year, Colorado suffered from a record-breaking wildfire season: More than 4,000 fires resulted in six deaths, the destruction of 648 buildings, and a half a billion dollars in property damage. Still reeling, thousands of Coloradans are once again fleeing from a string of drought-fueled fires. El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said on Wednesday that the Black Forest Fire, northeast of Colorado Springs, had already destroyed between 80 and 100 homes. Three other fires, including one in neighboring...
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California Wildfires May Be Controlled This Weekend, Official Says
2013-05-04 19:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Wildfires gripping Ventura County, Calif., spread on Friday night but will most likely come under control during the weekend with the aid of favorable weather, a fire official said Saturday. The fires, which had forced evacuations and laid waste to thousands of acres of woodland, took hold late last week. They had spread to 28,000 acres, from 18,000 on Friday, Bill Nash, a spokesman for the Ventura County Fire Department, said early Saturday. But 1,895 fire personnel had managed to contain about...
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California wildfires strengthened by winds as hundreds are evacuated
2013-05-03 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A fierce, wind-whipped brush fire spread on Friday along the California coast northwest of Los Angeles, threatening several thousand homes and a military base as more than 1,100 dwellings were ordered evacuated and a university campus was closed. A force of more than 900 firefighters had managed by daybreak to carve containment lines around about 10% of the perimeter of the inferno, which has scorched some 10,000 acres of dry, dense brush and chaparral since erupting on Thursday morning. Several...
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