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Australian wildfires spare observatory, uncover bush drug lab

2013-01-14 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Raging wildfires destroyed at least another 28 homes and licked at Australia's leading optical space observatory on Monday, officials said, but spared giant telescopes that have mapped far-away galaxies and discovered new planets. Less fortunate were a father and son who police arrested after a fire was lit deliberately to destroy illegal drug laboratories they were alleged to be running in dense bushland. Police were closing in on the drug labs when the fire was lit. More than 140 fires are...

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Wildfires across Australia and the US's hottest year on record: the heat that's making history

2013-01-11 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: Confused? You have every right to be. On just one day this week, it was reported that the heatwave that has lit wildfires across Australia is so unprecedented that two new colours have had to be added to weather forecasting maps; that 2012 had been by far the hottest year on record in the United States; that the blue-chip World Economic Forum had identified climate change as one of the world's most urgent dangers; and that, nevertheless, the Met Office had concluded that global warming had stalled....

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Australia's wildfires visible from space

2013-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Daily Climate: The face of climate change comes in many shapes these days: A roller coaster sitting in the surf, post-Hurricane Sandy. A farmer tilling in a drought-stressed crop, for a total loss. The latest image comes from space, via NASA: the largely uninhabited Outback of Western Australia at night, lit up like Europe by scores of wildfires. The composite image, NASA notes, was generated from a series of satellite images taken over 22 days in April and October 2012. The fires were not all burning at once....

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Epic heat, wildfires are scorching Australian landscape

2013-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment Health: An exceptional heat wave and associated spate of wildfires have scorched the Australian landscape during the past two weeks, with Monday ranking as Australia's hottest day on record. According to the Associated Press and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), the national average temperature on Monday was a sizzling 104.6°F. That eclipsed the previous mark of 104.3°F set in 1972. Temperatures were so hot this week that BOM meteorologists had to add two new colors to their weather maps, with...

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Epic Heat, Wildfires Are Scorching Australian Landscape

2013-01-09 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: An exceptional heat wave and associated spate of wildfires have scorched the Australian landscape during the past two weeks, with Monday ranking as Australia's hottest day on record. According to the Associated Press and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), the national average temperature on Monday was a sizzling 104.6°F. That eclipsed the previous mark of 104.3°F set in 1972. Temperatures were so hot this week that BOM meteorologists had to add two new colors to their weather maps, with...

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