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Dead Trees Adding to California Firefighters Battle
2016-06-23 00:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: With drought and climate change conspiring to push California's summer wildfire season into premature overdrive, the state's lead wildfire agency has acquired a multimillion dollar arsenal to help it cope with unprecedented numbers of dying trees. California recently bought $6 million worth of chippers, mobile sawmills, portable incinerators and other equipment to help its firefighters remove some of the nearly 30 million trees that now stand dead across the state, killed by drought and insects....
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66 million dead trees in California could fuel 'catastrophic' wildfires, officials say
2016-06-22 23:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The number of trees in Californias Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year, raising fears that they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger peoples lives, officials said on Wednesday. Since 2010, an estimated 66 million trees have died in a six-county region of the central and southern Sierra hardest hit by the epidemic, the US Forest Service said. Officials flying over the region captured images...
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Trees of life: tiny beetles turn Californian forests into tinder for energy
2016-06-19 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Californias record four-year drought has primed its coastal forests for a bug invasion. Millions of native bark beetles, which thrive in warm conditions, are burrowing into trees weakened by a lack of water, leaving in their wake dry, dead wood that becomes natural tinder. The beetles and drought have already killed off 29m trees, with tens of millions more expected to become casualties. Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), a California company, decided to turn the serious fire hazard into a source...
Wow! Indian Govt to Spend 6 bil Dollars on Planting Trees
2016-06-11 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
One Green Planet: Without forests, we as a species could not survive. Trees are the lungs of our planet, soaking up the (ever-increasing) carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, and in return giving us the sweet gift of oxygen. Unfortunately, our forests are currently in dire condition. At the current rate of deforestation, experts warn that we may see a treeless world in as soon as 100 years. If such an idea frightens the wits out of you, you wouldn`t be alone. Thankfully, there are many people, and more importantly...
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India: City NGOs to plant over 25,000 trees
2016-06-04 15:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NYOOOZ: Welfare First Foundation and Nerul CBD Belapur Walkers Associationhave taken up an initiative to plant more than 25,000 trees, particularly in nodes that lack greenery. The saplings will be planted depending on the rains. On World Environment Day, that falls on June 5, a tree plantation programme will be conducted on Parsik hill by NMMC commissioner Tukaram Mundhe. The corporation is providing saplings and conducting digging works. Welfare First Foundation president, Dr Varsha Rokade, the brain...
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