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In Colorado, Nature Takes a Fiery Toll Despite a Communitys Efforts to Prepare

2013-06-14 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: For years, families in Black Forest, Colo., did what they could to keep the flames at bay. They scooped up pine needles and trimmed low-hanging branches around their homes. They chopped down saplings and hauled dead trees to the community mulcher. But when the fire came this week, hundreds of their homes still burned. As fire crews fought Friday to contain the most destructive wildfire in Colorados history a blaze that has now burned 400 homes, killed two people and spread across 15,000 acres...

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Water levels fall in Great Lakes, taking a toll on shipping

2013-06-11 15:36:17| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Aboard the Dorothy Ann, in Lake Erie near Fairport Harbor, Ohio As Capt. Jeremy R. Mock steered this 711-foot combination of tug and barge toward a harbor berth, a screen of red numbers indicated the decreasing depth of water under the vessel: 6 feet, 3.6 feet, 2 feet. Suddenly the numbers gave way to a line of red dashes: . It was a signal that there was not enough water to measure. Drought and other factors have created historically low water marks for the Great Lakes, putting the...

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Dog bites take physical, emotional toll on victims

2013-06-09 12:23:51| Biotech - Topix.net

Increasing numbers of Indiana adults are becoming victims of dog bites as education efforts in cities like Fort Wayne help teach children proper ways to approach animals they don't know.

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Germany sends troops to help flooded cities as death toll rises

2013-06-04 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Germany has dispatched thousands of soldiers to help cities and towns cope with flooding from the rain-soaked Danube and other southern rivers reinforcements that came a day after the Bavarian city of Passau saw its worst flooding since 1501. The death toll rose to at least 10, including seven in the neighbouring Czech Republic, where a man was found dead in the water in eastern Bohemia. Another nine people have been reported missing in the floods that have also swept through Austria and Switzerland....

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