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Kanye West's Latest Target: In-App Purchases
2015-10-12 19:02:34| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Kanye wants app makers to "give parents a break" after North was presented with numerous in-app purchase requests.
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Drought Exacerbates West's Wildfire Season
2015-08-24 15:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: A historic wildfire season in the Western United States and Canada claimed more victims last week. Three firefighters battling the Twisp Fire in central Washington State died Wednesday after their vehicle crashed and was overtaken by the flames, NBC News reported. Four other firefighters were also injured. The three firefighters` deaths marked a dangerous week for fire crews battling blazes throughout the West. Over 7.2 million acres have burned this year, according to the federal National Interagency...
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Saving West's iconic landscapes from wildfires, one steppe at a time
2015-07-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: The landscape is quintessentially western vast expanses of sage-covered steppe punctuated by plateaus and mesas etched with canyons. Known as the Greater Sheldon-Hart Mountain landscape, the tract is billed as one of the few remaining large parcels of sage-steppe habitat in the United States. Now, it's one of 10 pilot projects in a new US Interior Department program aimed at improving the resilience of iconic, ecologically important landscapes to wildfires. The fire resilience concept isn't...
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West's Biggest Power Plant Provides Water As It Contributes To Drought
2015-07-01 03:29:23| pollutiononline News Articles
A single power plant is responsible for a giant chunk of Arizona’s pollution, and critics say it can be pinpointed as a key culprit behind the drought in the West—where, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, 75 percent of the region is experiencing abnormally dry weather.
US West's power grid must be prepared for impacts of climate change
2015-05-19 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Electricity generation and distribution infrastructure in the Western United States must be "climate-proofed" to diminish the risk of future power shortages, according to research by two Arizona State University engineers. Expected increases in extreme heat and drought events will bring changes in precipitation, air and water temperatures, air density and humidity, write Matthew Bartos and Mikhail Chester in the current issue of the research journal Nature Climate Change. The authors say the...
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