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Alaska wildfires char nearly 2 million acres, send smoke to South Carolina
2015-07-02 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Alaska is on track to have one of its worst wildfire seasons on record, propelled by a combination of warming average temperatures, a historically mild, relatively snowless winter and extremely mild spring. So far this year, 1.88 million acres have gone up in smoke, from 617 individual fires. June 2015 beat June of 2004 in terms of both number of fires and amount of acres burned, which means this year is now outpacing the state's worst wildfire season ever recorded. With hundreds of fires still...
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A file photo of Meijer Thrifty Acres in Grand Rapids at 28th Street and Kalamazoo Avenue.
2015-06-30 02:48:39| Grocery - Topix.net
When Meijer Thrifty Acres opened in Grand Rapids more than 50 years ago, it changed the way we go shopping. More than 4,100 people gathered at Houseman Field in Grand Rapids Saturday night to see Grand Rapids FC beat Lansing United.
Washington wildfire engulfs 3,000 acres, homes burn
2015-06-29 17:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A wildfire racing through central Washington state "blew up" overnight, threatening homes and businesses as flames enveloped roughly 3,000 acres, nearly double the area burning only a day earlier, state officials said Monday. "It jumped last night, just blew up," said Janet Pearce, spokeswoman for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. "It is such a bad year." Emergency officials were deploying added teams of firefighters to the area, Pearce said. On Sunday, hundreds of people were...
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New reserve in Peru protect nearly a million acres of pristine forest
2015-06-26 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A tract of Peruvian rainforest bigger than California's Yosemite National Park is officially more protected, with formal declaration of the Maijuna-Kichwa Regional Conservation Area (RCA) made last week in Lima. Those involved with the reserve's formation hope it will safeguard the area's biodiversity as well as the ancestral homeland and way of life of local indigenous communities. Northeastern Peru, sandwiched between Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil, still has large tracts of forest untouched...
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Late Afternoon Fire Scorches 10 Acres in East County
2015-06-21 00:10:25| Energy - Topix.net
A late-afternoon brush fire that charred about 10 acres in a hilly open area just west of Cuyamaca College Friday was fully contained, a Cal Fire official told Patch Saturday. The fire was moving toward homes and a San Diego Gas & Electric substation but never caused structural damage or injuries.
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