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U.S. wildfires just set an amazing and troubling new record
2016-01-07 19:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Last years wildfire season set a record with more than 10 million acres burned. Thats more land than Maryland, the District and Delaware combined. More than half the total was the result of mega-fires in Alaska, where dryness due to historically low mountain snowpack and a freak lightning storm created perfect conditions for a huge blaze. The nations overall toll was about 4 million acres more than the yearly average, scorching a record set in 2006. The record was anticipated by the U.S....
December in US was warmest, wettest on record
2016-01-07 17:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Wet weather and scorching temperatures propelled the United States into record books for the hottest December in modern history and the second warmest year since the late 1800s, US government scientists said Thursday. The report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the latest to document a warming trend that many scientists expect will make 2015 the planet's steamiest year on record. Man-made climate change resulting from the burning of fossil fuels, along with the El Nino...
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Record Orders Worth 1.4 billion Secured by Vanderlande
2016-01-07 15:26:00| Airport Technology
Vanderlande has secured a record order intake of 1.4 billion in 2015 for its integrated solutions in the baggage handling, warehouse automation, and parcel and postal markets, including the company's array of life-cycle services.
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Record hot end 2015 for Australia as giant El Nio dominates
2016-01-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Herald: Australia has posted its hottest end to any year as the impact of one of the biggest El Ninos on record began to be felt across the continent. Mean temperatures were 0.36 degrees above the previous record for the October to December period, capping what was Australia's fifth-hottest year since the Bureau of Meteorology began keeping national figures in 1910. 2015 was another hot year for Australia - and the hottest on record for the world. "For temperatures, it was a year of two halves -...
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Budvar beer exports reach record high in 2015
2016-01-07 13:03:52| Beverages - Topix.net
Czech state-owned brewery Budejovicky Budvar, which has been fighting a long legal battle with U.S. beer giant Anheuser-Busch over the use of the "Budweiser" brand, says its output and exports reached a record in 2015.
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