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  CBy Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE>> Lawmakers from several western states want the U.S. Forest Service to do more to address a wildfire crisis that they say surely will destroy more landscapes, communities and livelihoods as long-term drought persists around th...
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By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont.>> A legal dispute in Montana could drastically curb the government’s use of aerial fire retardant to combat wildfires after environmentalists raised concerns about waterways that are being polluted with the potentially toxic red slurry th...
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  “This plan will help reduce the risk — it will not eliminate the risk” By John Aguilar The Denver Post CASTLE ROCK » Meghan Diekmann’s home in an upscale neighborhood in this Douglas County town 30 miles south of Denver is shaded by stands of tall pines and surrounded by clusters of Gambe...
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    By Annie Mehl Daily Camera Between the freshly cut pine trees near Shanahan Ridge, a crew of foresters and volunteers took turns chipping away at tall, dense trees Aug. 23. While crew members and volunteers with Boulder Open Space & Mountain Parks started thinning the trees in...
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Shared by The Denver Post, By Harrison Raine Writers on the Range For the 2021 fire season, the writing is on the wall. The West, despite a few days of intense winter, is far drier than it was leading up to last year’s record-breaking fires. As a hotshot crewmember, the reality of what’s to c...
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By Mojtaba Sadegh, Ata Akbari Asanjan and Mohammad Reza Alizadeh The Conversation More than 4 million acres of California went up in flames in 2020 — about 4% of the state’s land area and more than double its previous wildfire record. Five of the state’s six largest fires on record were burning thi...
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From Siberia to Australia to the western U.S., massive fires have consumed millions of acres this year and spawned fire-generated tornados and other phenomena rarely seen before. Scientists say the world has entered a perilous new era that will demand better ways of fighting wildfires. BY ED...
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Shared from the 2/20/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE» Projects to reduce the risk of wildfires and protect water sources in the West have created jobs and infused more money in local economies, researchers say, and they were funded by a par...
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By John Upton SANTA ROSA, Calif. — As the deadliest fires in California history swept through leafy neighborhoods here, Kathleen Sarmento fled her home in the dark, drove to an evacuation center and began setting up a medical triage unit. Patients with burns and other severe injuries were disp...
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President Barack Obama walks to board Marine One Friday, June 19, 2015, at the Santa Monica, Calif, landing zone en route to tape a podcast interview with comedian Marc Maron in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)  WASHINGTON - Failure to act on climate change could cause an estimated 5...
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PARIS — A leaden cloak of responsibility lies on the shoulders of UN scientists as they put the final touches to the first volume of a massive report that will give the world the most detailed picture yet of climate change. Due to be unveiled in Stockholm on September 27, the document will be scrut...
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SAN FRANCISCO – A massive fire burning near Yosemite National Park continued its spread Sunday, threatening not only ancient giant sequoia groves but also the municipal water and power system for San Francisco and nearby cities. The most-visited areas of Yosemite National Park are not in danger, off...
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Wildfires near the Arctic Circle are becoming increasingly more common. And in one Alaskan region called the Yukon Flats, fires are cropping up at a more frequent pace than any other time in the past 10,000 years. A team of scientists led by University of Illinois researcher Rya...
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SPICEWOOD, Texas — In this browning patch of land in central Texas, C.J. Teare could be fined for using fresh water to keep her decades-old oak trees alive so she relies on soapy water left over from washing clothes. "I've never seen it like this before," says Teare, a grandmother who has lived in ...
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