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Deadly Colorado blaze subsides with help from rain
2013-06-15 02:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rain and calmer winds helped firefighters tame a deadly wildfire ranked as Colorado's most destructive on record as authorities reported making significant headway on Friday in curtailing a blaze that has destroyed nearly 420 homes outside Colorado Springs. The fire has charred roughly 24 square miles of rolling, wooded terrain northeast of Colorado's second-largest city since it started on Tuesday, killing two people and forcing some 38,000 to flee their homes. A firefighting force estimated...
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Rain Dampens Colorados Worst-Ever Wildfire
2013-06-15 01:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: A welcome rain this afternoon is helping to extinguish the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history. The Black Forest Fire within the Colorado Springs city limits killed two people Tuesday while they were trying to flee, and before the rain began it was still raging out of control. El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa told reporters the bodies of two people were found about 2 pm Thursday in their garage with the car doors open. They are believed to have died Tuesday afternoon as their Black...
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Hundreds Of Outages As Andrea Brings Heavy Rain
2013-06-07 20:35:12| Energy - Topix.net
Hundreds of customers are without power and motorists are facing a messy morning commute as Tropical Storm Andrea brings heavy rains to the mid-Atlantic region.
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The Five Rain Shoes Every New York Woman Should Own
2013-06-03 19:27:25| Apparel - Topix.net
Weather is the enemy of style. You plan what you're going to wear, then a storm forces a whole new rethink based around rainboots - impossible when you're dressing for formal occasions or trying to look sharp for the office.
Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rain forest
2013-05-20 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: The Amazon rain forest, popularly known as the lungs of the planet, inhales carbon dioxide as it exudes oxygen. Plants use carbon dioxide from the air to grow parts that eventually fall to the ground to decompose or get washed away by the region's plentiful rainfall. Until recently people believed much of the rain forest's carbon floated down the Amazon River and ended up deep in the ocean. University of Washington research showed a decade ago that rivers exhale huge amounts of carbon dioxide...
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