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California wildfire prompts new round of evacuations
2016-07-02 23:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A new wildfire burning through bone-dry grass, shrub and timber has forced the evacuation of dozens of homes in a mountain community in central California and more houses could be in the inferno's path, fire officials said on Saturday. The so-called Deer fire sparked on Friday afternoon and has grown to char about 1,800 acres of Bear Mountain, Kern County Fire Department spokesman Phil Neufeld said. About 100 houses in Bear Valley Springs are under immediate threat from the flames and had to...
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Two L.A.-area wildfires threaten to merge after forcing evacuations
2016-06-22 00:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Two rapidly growing wildfires burning a few miles apart in parched foothills just northeast of Los Angeles threatened to merge on Tuesday after forcing the evacuation of more than 700 people, officials said. The blazes came as California and other southwestern U.S. states baked in a heat wave. The so-called Fish Fire and the Reservoir Fire, which both broke out on Monday in the Angeles National Forest, more than doubled in size overnight and were entirely unconfined, the U.S. Forest Service...
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Climate change could trigger tropical evacuations, researchers advise
2016-06-12 10:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Solomon Hsiang, Chancellor's Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Adam Sobel, a professor of applied physics and math at Columbia University, foresee dramatic population declines in Mexico, Central America, Africa, India and other tropical locales if ecosystems or humans move due to climate change. In their analysis, the pair used a model to demonstrate how climate dynamics in the tropics can dramatically magnify the consequences of climate change...
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Storm damage: two bodies recovered as Tasmania flood evacuations continue
2016-06-07 10:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The body of a 75-year-old woman has been recovered from her northern Tasmanian home and another body was pulled from the ocean off Sydneys eastern suburbs in search and rescue efforts following days of intense storms and flooding in eastern Australia. Major flood warnings remain in place in parts of north-western Tasmania on Monday evening, where authorities fear the overflowing South Esk river could threaten homes and businesses in Invermay and Longford. Precautionary evacuations are underway...
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Southern California brush fire threatens homes, prompts evacuations
2016-06-05 07:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A brush fire outside Los Angeles was threatening thousands of homes and has prompted mandatory evacuation of local residents, authorities said on Saturday. The 200-acre brush fire in Calabasas, a small Los Angeles County city some 10 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean and about halfway between the Malibu and Santa Monica, was reportedly triggered when a vehicle hit a utility pole, downing power lines. Several homes were damaged, fire officials said, and mandatory evacuations were ordered for...
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