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California wildfire season: 43 percent more fires, so far
2013-08-10 23:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: California truly is the Golden State this summer -- golden brown -- and that has fire officials worried heading into the peak of the wildfire season. It's still weeks before the fire-fanning Santa Ana winds usually arrive and already it's been a brutal fire season, with nearly twice as many acres (hectares) burned statewide from a year ago, including 19,000 acres (7,690 hectares) scorched this week in a blaze still raging in the mountains 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Los Angeles. So far...
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California Wildfire Season Likely To Get Worse When Santa Ana Winds Arrive
2013-08-10 07:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: California truly is the Golden State this summer -- golden brown -- and that has fire officials worried heading into the peak of the wildfire season. It's still weeks before the fire-fanning Santa Ana winds usually arrive and already it's been a brutal fire season, with nearly twice as many acres burned statewide from a year ago, including 19,000 scorched this week in a blaze still raging in the mountains 90 miles east of Los Angeles. That fire, burning nearly 30 square miles, was almost half...
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Wildfire Season So Far: Tragic, Destructive And Below Average
2013-07-03 00:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: It may seem like wildfire Armageddon out there, given the tragic deaths of 24 wildland firefighters this year, more than 800 homes and businesses burned to the ground, nearly 1.6 million acres scorched and over 23,000 blazes requiring suppression. But as dramatic as it's been, the 2013 wildfire season has yet to kick into high gear. The 2013 Wildfire Season By The Numbers (as of July 2) Acres burned to date: 1,592,042 Wildfires to date: 23,389 Ten-year average for acres burned to date:...
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Climate change causing US wildfire season to last longer, Congress told
2013-06-04 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: America's wildfire season lasts two months longer than it did 40 years ago and burns up twice as much land as it did in those earlier days because of the hotter, drier conditions produced by climate change, the country's forest service chief told Congress on Tuesday. But the forest service was forced to make sharp cuts to fire prevention programmes, and reduce the numbers of fire-fighters and engines because of budget pressures, Thomas Tidwell, the chief of the United States Forest Service, told...
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Wildfire Season Is Shaping Up To Be A Doozy
2013-05-30 17:40:00| Beef
No fishing tale is complete without a story of the one that got away. The stories that result from the upcoming wildfire season will be the same its the ones that get away that everyone will talk about. Given the dry conditions that exist again this year throughout much of the West, it appears the media henhouse will have plenty of fodder to scratch around in. read more
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