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Australia On Fire Again
Bushfire season arrived in force recently as emergency fire crews in five states fought blazes amid record temperatures and ominously dry conditions, report Mark Schliebs and Nick Leys at The Australian. In Tasmania, fires destroyed over 65 buildings and unconfirmed … Continue reading
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Arctic Wildfire Soot Helped Melt Greenland
As warmer temperatures in the north expand the wildfire season, fires on the Arctic tundra are increasing. Now a new report indicates that the sooty smoke from the 2012 summer fires helped in the dramatic thaw of Greenland’s ice sheet … Continue reading
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Record Summer Heat, Wildfires in Siberia
Forests and bog land in far eastern Russia have been burning since the beginning of June 2012, reports the National Atmospheric and Space Administration website. Contributing to these record fires have been the record temperatures of this past Siberian summer, … Continue reading
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Climate Change Wiping Out Cattle Feed
The grazing lands of scores of US ranchers have been charred by blazes or ravaged by drought amid a regional shortfall of the alfalfa hay that could stave off starvation, reports Laura Zuckerman at Reuters News. With drought affecting more … Continue reading
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Record Colorado Wildfire Just the Beginning – Study
As the West has warmed and dried over the past 30 years, fire seasons have grown ever more apocalyptic with new records for damage and devastation, as the recent Colorado Waldo Canyon wildfire showed, reports Tom Yulsman at the Daily … Continue reading
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Climate Change Will Bring More, Bigger Wildfires Worldwide
A dry winter and warm dry spring this year left Colorado forests tinder dry, ripe for the wildfires now raging there, and we can expect more of the same everywhere under climate change, reports Nathanael Massey at ClimateWire. Although no … Continue reading
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Human, Climate Change Help Create Record-Breaking New Mexico Megafire
At 30% containment, the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s history continues to burn, having already charred 271, 000 acres, an area larger than New York City. Known as the Whitewater-Baldy Fire Complex, it is part of a series of American … Continue reading
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Climate Change Creates Canadian Tinderbox
In May 2011, a wildfire, fueled by dry forests and 60 mile per hour winds, tore through the fire defenses of Slave Lake, a town like many others nestled in the boreal forest covering much of Canada. The fire caused … Continue reading
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Droughts, Likely From Climate Change, Pervade US
Droughts are intensifying in the US southwest, upper midwest, the southeast and along the east coast. Parts of every state – except Alaska and Ohio – are either abnormally dry or in some form of drought, reports Doyle Rice and … Continue reading
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Increasing Climate Change Brings Increasing Deaths from Wildfires – Study
Wildfires are expected to become more severe and common around the world due to global warming, and a new study shows that a third of a million people die annually from land fires, reports Kerry Sheridan at Agence France Presse. … Continue reading
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