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Firefighters struggle with blazes in Western U.S. states
Posted by Reuters: Jennifer Dobner and Keith Coffman on June 24th, 2012
Reuters: Firefighters in Western U.S. states struggled to contain out-of-control wind-stoked wildfires on Saturday as summer temperatures mounted, and a fresh blaze consumed more homes in Colorado even as Utah allowed 2,500 evacuees back for the night.
Colorado firefighters remained unable to halt the spread of the High Park Fire, a growing 81,190-acre (32,856-hectare) blaze in steep canyons west of Fort Collins. The fire jumped containment lines on Friday and roared through a subdivision, forcing the...
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Rio climate change summit takes baby steps
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 24th, 2012
New York Times: Burdened by low expectations, snarled by endless traffic congestion and shunned by President Obama, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ended here as it began, under a shroud of withering criticism.
The anti-poverty organization CARE called the meeting "nothing more than a political charade," and Greenpeace said the gathering was "a failure of epic proportions."
The Pew Environment Group was slightly more charitable. "It would be a mistake to call Rio a failure," the group...