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In Migrant Camp, Calif Drought Brings Familiar Desperation

2014-12-31 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: "They were hungry, and they were fierce. And they had hoped to find a home, and they found only hatred.-The Grapes of Wrath Like the fictional Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath, I'd dreamt of eating fresh peaches picked from a tree. Inspired by pastoral pictures on food labels, I'd imagined wading deep into the avocado orchards, tomato fields, and lettuce farms of California's Central Valley. Instead, as my family drove the roads bisecting Highway 99 during a hot week in July, we passed unplanted...

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Oil-drilling camp on North Slope hit by fire; no one hurt

2014-12-29 16:42:41| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

KTUU-TV reports that an overnight fire broke out at the campsite of an Italian oil company's drilling project in the North Slope, but no one was injured. Eni Petroleum spokesman Grande Whitney says everyone involved was safe after the fire at the company's Nikaitchuq Operations Camp north of the Kuparuk River unit operated by ConocoPhillips.

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Volunteers clean up illegal camp trash along Willamette River

2014-12-20 01:51:49| Railroads - Topix.net

One month after a YouTube video surfaced showing a Willamette River shore littered with trash, dozens of volunteers moved in Friday to clean up what illegal campers left behind. The video shot by Aaron Baker captured the mess left along a 150-yard stretch of waterfront north of Franklin Boulevard.

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