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Canada's boreal forests are burning releasing loads of carbon
2014-07-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
High Country News: Rumbling afternoon thundershowers are breaking over the Southwest, bringing gratitude and sweet relief not that the region needed much relieving this year. Bouts of cool, wet weather throughout early summer helped stave off the conflagrations predicted to erupt after a dry winter, and by mid-July, most areas had already been deluged by a full months worth of rainfall. In other words, summer monsoon season has extinguished any lingering fears that 2014 would be a bad fire year. In a word, fire...
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Carbon concerns over wood burning
2014-07-24 14:58:56| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Burning wood to fuel power stations can create as many harmful carbon emissions as burning coal, according to a government report.
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Subaru sued over vehicles' oil burning
2014-07-19 03:35:51| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
A proposed class-action lawsuit contends Subaru of America failed to tell consumers about an oil-consumption problem in its most popular models.
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Scientists Confirm Burning Fossil Fuels Worsens Australian Drought
2014-07-17 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: American scientists have just confirmed that parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of greenhouse gas emissions, which means that the long-term decline in rainfall over south and south-west Australia is a consequence of fossil fuel burning and depletion of the ozone layer by human activity. Such a finding is significant for two reasons. One remains contentious: it is one thing to make generalized predictions about the consequences overall of greenhouse gas levels, but it is quite another...
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DEQ offers free workshops on open burning
2014-07-08 19:07:25| Waste Management - Topix.net
Today, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is in Lafayette sponsoring a free workshop to assist fire departments, municipalities and the general public with understanding the air quality regulations concerning open burning.
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