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Is Climate Change Threatening Maine's Staple Foods?
2013-08-16 21:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TakePart: If you're eating in Maine in the summertime and blueberries and lobster aren't on the menu, you're doing something wrong. The crustacean and fruit have deep roots in the state, but their production is under threat. Climate change, among other factors, is bringing unwanted visitors to both crops--a bacteria that feeds on lobster shells and fruit flies that wreck wild blueberries--posing an unprecedented threat to two of the state's biggest industries. Maine's blueberry crop--which brings more than...
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Southern California wildfire growing amid hot, dry conditions, threatening hundreds of homes
2013-08-09 02:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Susana Medrano stood in her front yard, mesmerized by the orange and red flames creeping along the wind-swept mountain ridge behind her home, and struggled to leave. Her children sat in the back of her pickup after grabbing the new clothes and backpacks they had bought for the school year, which starts next week. Now they were wondering whether they would have a place to live. Its hard because we dont know whats going to happen, the mother of four said Thursday, her eyes tearing up as she...
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Wildfire Spreads, Threatening Hundreds of Homes
2013-08-09 02:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Southern California's destructive wildfire has grown to 25 square miles, but containment has also increased. APTOPIX Southern California Wildfire.JPEG Fire officials say the fire in rugged mountains 90 miles east of Los Angeles expanded by 2,000 acres overnight but is 25 percent surrounded Friday morning. The fire has destroyed 26 rural homes and forced hundreds of residents to flee since it broke out Wednesday afternoon. The cause remains under investigation.
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Angry cable customer accused of threatening to blow up office reaches plea deal
2013-08-06 16:11:44| Telecom - Topix.net
A disgruntled cable customer who threatened to bomb the Charter Communications office in Duluth has pleaded guilty to a reduce charge in an agreement with prosecutors.
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How wildfires are threatening the West
2013-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rolling Stone: It was the sound of her neighbors' propane tanks exploding that convinced Nancy Myers she had run out of time. Twenty minutes earlier, the 57-year-old potter had been standing with some friends on a rock-strewn hillside above the village of Yarnell, Arizona, on a hot Sunday afternoon, watching the red coil of flames unspool in the distance, certain that everything was going to be OK despite the "prepare to evacuate" order issued by the county sheriff's office earlier that day. "Then the storm came...
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