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Fires Burn More Fiercely As Northern Forests Warm
2013-04-25 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: When the wildfire reached Jon Cummings backyard last summer, it had already traversed 50 miles of rugged terrain in Idahos Salmon-Challis National Forest. Thick smoke dimmed daylight and embers sailed on hot currents. While firefighters were able to preserve Cummings house and property, his neighbors up the river were less fortunate. No houses burned, but when those folks came home it was a total moonscape, he said. Wildfires last summer burned more than 9 million acres across the U.S., predominantly...
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Portugal: Wildfires can burn hot without ruining soil
2013-04-23 23:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: When scientists torched an entire 22-acre watershed in Portugal in a recent experiment, their research yielded a counterintuitive result: Large, hot fires do not necessarily beget hot, scorched soil. It's well known that wildfires can leave surface soil burned and barren, which increases the risk of erosion and hinders a landscape's ability to recover. But the scientists' fiery test found that the hotter the fire -- and the denser the vegetation feeding the flames -- the less the underlying soil...
Burn our planet or face financial meltdown. Not much of a choice
2013-04-21 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The world is going to fry unless there is change soon. There is weakening political will to make national and international targets for carbon reduction stick, no strong business and financial coalition prepared to lead and a weakening groundswell of public opinion prepared to foot the bill. Instead, the international consensus of 25 years ago that the world must act to challenge climate change is dissolving. Individual countries are trying to steal a march on each other in a race to the...
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UK: Rainfall brings Burn Stewart Distillers plant back online
2013-04-16 16:36:48| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
A Burn Stewart Distillers' plant that halted production because of water shortages is due to resume service.
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Analysis - CL Financial woes behind Burn Stewart Distillers sale?
2013-04-15 15:38:03| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Today's sale of Burn Stewart Distillers to Distell may be a "vote of confidence" in the Scotch whisky industry. But it is also a symbol of the continued fallout from the near collapse of Burn Stewart's Caribbean owner CL Financial.
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