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Amazon forest fire risk to increase in 2013
2013-06-07 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: University and NASA researchers predict that the severity of the 2013 fire season will be considerably higher than in 2011 and 2012 for many Amazon forests in the Southern Hemisphere. The outlook is based on a fire severity model that produced a successful first forecast in 2012. The model, produced by a group led by Jim Randerson of the University of California, Irvine, considers historical fire data from NASA's Terra satellite, along with sea surface temperature data from NOAA. Previous research...
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Brazil: Climate conditions determine Amazon fire risk
2013-06-07 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Using an innovative satellite technique, NASA scientists have determined that a previously unmapped type of wildfire in the Amazon rainforest is responsible for destroying several times more forest than has been lost through deforestation in recent years. In the southern Amazon rainforest, fires below the forest treetops, or "understory fires," have been hidden from view from NASA satellites that detect actively burning fires. The new method has now led to the first regional estimate of understory...
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North Carolina Emerged From a 1999 Flood Disaster With An Overhauled Risk Assessment System
2013-06-07 17:06:58| ENR.com: Headline News
Hurricane Floyd left more than a vast landscape of flooded fields and towns in North Carolina in 1999. It left a determination to get to the bottom of flood risk assessment and not be caught by surprise again.
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Negligible BSE Risk Designation: What Are the Benefits?
2013-06-06 22:41:00| Beef
By Joe Schuele, USMEF The OIEs negligible risk designation creates an opportunity for the U.S. to reengage its trading partners on removal of the remaining restrictions on beef imports from the U.S. read more
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U.S. at Risk for Foodborne Attack
2013-06-06 11:21:36| Food - Topix.net
Chinese meat processor Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. for approximately $4.72 billion.
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