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More Wildfires, Starting Sooner, Burning More Acres
2016-06-28 17:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Capradio: A report by the nonpartisan Climate Central says that 11 million people in California are at risk of wildfire and that climate change is lengthening the wildfire season. Previous reports by researchers have said wildfires in the western U.S. would become more intense, larger, and start earlier than usual as a result of climate change. "This intense activity is indicative of a growing trend in Western wildfires linked to changes in climate," the report notes. "Spring and summer temperatures...
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California's Wildfires Just Tripled in Size
2016-06-28 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: When it comes to forest fires, California can't seem to catch a break. Last year was a hellacious one for uncontrolled burns, and 2016 is looking just as bad. In the past week, the number of acres scorched by wildfire has tripled from around 32,000 to more than 98,000, according to the state's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The number of fires the department, known simply as Cal Fire, has responded to is slightly above the seasonal five year average. But it's early in the fire season....
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Canada: Dried bogs play role in wildfires: research
2016-06-28 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: New research from an Ontario professor indicates that bogs dried for logging or other purposes can experience catastrophic deep burns that can last for months and contribute to the spread of wildfires in both Canada and northern Europe. But Mike Waddington of McMaster University says his research, published Monday in Nature Scientific Reports, also shows peat bogs -- wetlands with dead plant material and mosses -- can be restored through "re-wetting," which can help mitigate the spread of fires...
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Raging wildfires in the Southwest stretch resources
2016-06-23 14:05:14| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Firefighters across Arizona and New Mexico battled 31 wildfires on Wednesday, their efforts complicated by a relentless heat wave and bone-dry conditions. And in the Angeles National Forest, on the northern edge of Los Angeles, two fires kept more than 300 families from their homes as the fires threatened to merge into one. Other fires ignited in Colorado and Utah, threatening homes, closing roads and stoking the zero-sum competition for finite resources firefighters and the airplanes and helicopters...
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66 million dead trees in California could fuel 'catastrophic' wildfires, officials say
2016-06-22 23:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The number of trees in Californias Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year, raising fears that they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger peoples lives, officials said on Wednesday. Since 2010, an estimated 66 million trees have died in a six-county region of the central and southern Sierra hardest hit by the epidemic, the US Forest Service said. Officials flying over the region captured images...
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