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Colorado floods rescue efforts threatened by new wave of rain
2013-09-15 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: From the Rocky Mountain foothills to the plains of northeastern Colorado, the search for people stranded by severe flooding grew more difficult on Sunday, with a new wave of rain threatening to hamper airlifts from flooded areas that are still out of reach. Numerous pockets of individuals remain cut off from help, even with more than 1,750 people and 300 pets already rescued from communities and homes swamped by rivers and streams overflowing after unrelenting rain last week, officials said. Twenty...
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Carbon tax, threatened Down Under, warms up US climate debate
2013-09-13 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The promise to rescind Australia's carbon tax is causing some conservatives to throw bouquets, but climate advocates are downplaying the impact that the federal election Down Under might have on American efforts to price emissions. Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott, of the conservative Liberal Party, made the nation's 1-year-old carbon tax a key theme in his campaign against incumbent Kevin Rudd, whose Labor Party elevated climate change to the peak of public policy as natural disasters whiplashed...
Tulsi Gabbard: Hawaiian Congresswoman Threatened
2013-08-31 16:52:40| Airlines - Topix.net
CNN had a downright freaky story this morning , with a man from Tijuana arrested for vowing to "behead" freshman congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard .
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California's Rim Fire now 20 Percent Contained, but Homes and Resources Still Threatened
2013-08-27 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: California's Rim Fire, which now covers an area larger than Chicago, continues to burn though the Stanislaus National Forest and a portion of Yosemite National Park, but firefighters have more of a handle on the enormous wildfire than at any point to-date. Relying heavily on fire-fighting airplanes and helicopters, crews made significant gains in battling the blaze, with the latest update from the Incident Information System (Inciweb), which handles California's wildfire information, indicating...
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Giant sequoia trees threatened by Yosemite fire
2013-08-27 17:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A raging forest fire sweeping toward Yosemite National Park in California may threaten giant sequoia trees. The massive Rim Fire is an intense "crown" fire, meaning it is burning and leaping in the tops of trees instead of crawling along the ground. The National Park Service has closed two of Yosemite's three giant sequoia groves to work on preventive fire efforts, a park service statement said. The Merced and Tuolumne groves are about 4 miles (6 kilometers) from the edge of the Rim Fire, which...
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