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California Drought Expands, Fueling Heat and Fire
2014-01-16 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A wildfire exploded outside Los Angeles Thursday as record temperatures spread across California, where drought conditions are escalating as the state comes off its driest year on record. A new update to the U.S. Drought Monitor shows that severe drought, the second-worst drought category, has spread across 62.7 percent of the California as of Tuesday. The previous week, severe drought was only affecting 27.6 percent of the state. California recorded only 7.38 inches of precipitation statewide...
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8 to 12 buildings in line for solar panels at University of California, Merced
2014-01-16 16:47:00| American School & University
The rooftop panels would supplement an already existing solar field south of campus Green Schools read more
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California wildfire: why winter hasn't brought relief
2014-01-16 12:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Homes burned in a wildfire threatening neighborhoods in dangerously dry foothills of Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains on Thursday, fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds that spit embers into the city below. Residents who awakened in the pre-dawn darkness to see flames approaching were ordered to evacuate. Television images showed several structures engulfed in flames in a neighborhood abutting Angeles National Forest, just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora. Homes are nestled...
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Fukushima Radiation (Still) Poses No California Risk
2014-01-15 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Im catching up with an incredibly helpful, and sadly necessary, article by Tony Barboza in the Los Angeles Times explaining why theres no scientific basis for the persistent stream of fear mongering about a radiation threat in American seafood and along California coasts from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant calamity. Heres the introduction: Radiation detected off the U.S. West Coast from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has declined since the 2011 tsunami disaster and...
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North California drought threatens farmers, ag workers, cities and you
2014-01-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: The 20 people who work full time for Fresno County farmer Joe Del Bosque are on winter break now. But he is not sure they will have jobs to return to, let alone the 300 temporary workers he usually hires to harvest melons. Im worried about my workers, said Del Bosque, who farms 2,000 acres in a region known as the nations food basket because it produces almost half the fruits, vegetables and nuts on Americas tables. Right now were not sure if were going to bring them back or how many...
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