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Raging wildfires drive 23,000 Calif from their homes
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 15th, 2015
Christian Science Monitor: California officials say about 23,000 people have been displaces by two massive wildfires. California’s historic drought has provided ample fuel for wildfires this season. Some 13,000 people have been driven from their homes by a wildfire 20 miles north of the famed Napa Valley, according to Mark Ghilarducci, director of the governor's emergency services office. Another 10,000 people have been displaced from a second blaze less than 200 miles away in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Up to 720 homes...
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Protests over giant telescope put concern Native Hawaiians into focus
Posted by Al Jazeera: None Given on September 15th, 2015
Al Jazeera: The world’s tallest mountain from seafloor to summit is Mauna Kea, a 32,000-foot volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii where ancient Hawaiians believed the gods dwelled at the intersection of sky and peak.
In the last five months this sacred summit has also become a battleground. After plans were announced to build the world’s most powerful telescope atop the mountain, hundreds of protesters calling themselves protectors blocked Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) construction crews and equipment from...
Woman killed, 400 homes destroyed by California wildfire
Posted by Reuters: Curtis Skinner on September 15th, 2015
Reuters: A Northern California wildfire ranked as the most destructive to hit the drought-stricken U.S. West this year has killed a woman and burned some 400 homes to the ground, fire officials said on Monday, and they expect the property toll to climb.
The so-called Valley Fire erupted on Saturday and spread quickly to a cluster of small communities in the hills and valleys north of Napa County's wine-producing region, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents.
An elderly, disabled woman who...
Oregon governor declares emergency as wildfire threatens homes
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 15th, 2015
Reuters: Oregon’s governor invoked the state’s so-called Emergency Conflagration Act on Monday, mobilizing additional resources as a fast-growing wildfire threatened 275 homes in a rural area of the state. Since the Dry Gulch Fire erupted in eastern Oregon on Saturday, it has charred more than 20,000 acres in dry, windy conditions, prompting officials to evacuate more than 100 homes on Monday. Authorities told residents of about 275 homes outside the community of Richland to stand by for possible evacuation...
Did Climate Change Create The Syrian Refugee Crisis?
Posted by Inquisitr: None Given on September 15th, 2015
Inquisitr: Most of the nightmare scenarios attributed to global climate change have failed to materialize just yet, but recent studies have found that climate change may be to blame for the Syrian refugee crisis.
When Syrian refugees leave their homes for neighboring countries like Turkey and Lebanon, and press on even further to destinations in the European Union and elsewhere, they are fleeing the violence and uncertainty of civil war, not climate change. But that civil war, fought between the government...