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Record Heat in Southwestern U.S. Fuels Fires, Kills At Least 4
2016-06-22 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Now: In the Southwestern United States, record-setting heat has killed at least four people and fueled more than a dozen wildfires. In Los Angeles, thousands lost power Monday as air conditioners overwhelmed the power grid. Outside the city, two massive wildfires blazed through at least 4,500 acres in the San Gabriel Mountains, forcing at least 750 people to evacuate. It was 118 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday, a daily record. Last month was the hottest May ever recorded, the 13th straight...
New fires erupt in California as heatwave sears Southwest
2016-06-20 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: New wildfires erupted Monday near Los Angeles and chased people from their suburban homes as an intense heatwave stretching from the West Coast to New Mexico blistered the region. Towering columns of smoke rose from the San Gabriel Mountains as two fires burning less than 2 miles apart devoured brush on steep slopes above foothill suburbs. Police in the city of Azusa and parts of Duarte ordered several hundred homes evacuated. Others were under voluntary evacuations. "It's crazy. It's super...
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Crews make progress against home-threatening Western fires
2016-06-18 15:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Firefighters battling home-threatening wildfires in the West caught a break overnight as gusty winds died down but with the region bracing for sweltering heat, Saturday's respite could be brief, authorities said. A four-day-old fire in California coastal canyons was 45 percent contained after 40-mph "sundowner" winds failed to materialize. Those evening and night gusts had driven the flames through steep, brushy canyons west of Santa Barbara on previous nights and forced closure of a major highway....
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Bangladesh Accord urges faster remediation after four fires
2016-06-15 14:08:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh has urged an acceleration of the remediation work being carried out in the country's ready-made garment industry following four factory fires over the last month.
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Indonesia's forest fires threaten Sumatra's few remaining Orang Rimba
2016-06-07 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Our main goal is to preserve the forest according to the customary traditions of our people. If theres no forest, theres no Orang Rimba and the other way round, says Bepak Pengusai, head of customs in a rombong, or group area, belonging to the Orang Rimba, an aboriginal people in Sumatra. Indonesias devastating forest fires pose a serious threat to the Orang Rimba habitat. From July to late last year, the fires killed a dozen people and caused respiratory tract infections in half a million...
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