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"...Most of the candidates are associated with the Longest Ballot Committee, a grassroots electoral reform group seeking to draw attention to itself by flooding ballots with as many names as possible in several recent elections and byelections. But their tactics have raised questions about the effect long ballots have on the accessibility and integrity of the vote..."
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"...SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) A 5. 7 magnitude earthquake struck off the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic early Tuesday, jolting residents awake in the Caribbean country and in neighboring Puerto Rico..."
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"...Years of U. S. sanctions on Iran's oil and banking sectors, as well as difficulty in obtaining parts to operate and repair the electric grid, have made the country unable to properly maintain and upgrade its inefficient energy infrastructure..."
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"...In 1979, I was a summer student working at Gulf Oils refinery in Clarkson, Ontario. I was assigned to its oldest crude unit, part of the original British-American Oil refinery built in 1943. It was my first job in the oil industry, an industry where Id work for the next 35 years..."
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"...Nepals location in the Himalayan mountains makes it especially vulnerable to heavy rains, floods and landslides because the area is warming up faster than the rest of the world due to human-caused climate change. Climate experts say the increasing frequency of extreme weather has changed the playbook for assessing infrastructure risks while also increasing the need for smart rebuilding plans..."
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"...For the first time in history, the world is within our reach of a legally binding international instrument to end plastic pollution, said Vayas, who is also Ecuador's ambassador to Britain. We are facing a global crisis. Plastic pollution is damaging ecosystems, polluting our oceans and rivers, threatening biodiversity, harming human health and unfairly impacting the most vulnerable..."
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"...Nations gather in Geneva Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet..."
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"...The B-C Wildfire Service says the Wesley Ridge wildfire on Vancouver Island has grown to more than five square kilometres and is now considered a wildfire of note..."
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"...The study, published August 4 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, examined research fraud carried out by paper mills, brokers and predatory publishers. By producing low quality or fabricated research, selling authorship and publishing without adequate quality control and peer review, respectively, these three groups were well known to produce a large volume of fraudulent research. ..."
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"...SMALL POINT-BROAD COVE-BLACKHEAD-ADAMS COVE Residents of several small communities in eastern Newfoundland have been told to leave their homes as a 150-hectare wildfire continues to burn on the west side of Conception Bay..."
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"...Thanks for tuning in to this agronomic Monday on RealAg Radio! Host Shaun Haney is joined by RealAgricultures in-house agronomist, Peter Wheat Pete Johnson, to discuss a number of topics including: Profitability concerns; Fall compaction in flooded rice; and Choosing hybrid varieties..."
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"...In this episode, Jerrod, Roy, and Rory dive into major industry topics, from effective management strategies to AI in mining, and the Cedar LNG projects impact on Indigenous partnerships and energy markets..."
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"...With a spring fire season that has fired up early and hot in Western Canada, there is no time like today to start working on a fire prevention plan..."
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Recent peer-reviewed papers relevant to the latest news and opinion.
"...However, their ability to store and sequester carbon is uncertain due to combined and intermingling effects of anthropogenic activities and climate change, which impact wildfire regimes and vegetation dynamics..."
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"...Predicting the impact of wildfires on ecosystem services and habitat values requires quantifying rates of post-fire tree mortality and topkill..."
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"...Fire management practices such as prescribed burning reduce soil C stocks, but less so than wildfires which are more intense..."
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"...While the chaotic nature of the ETC and jet stream interaction means that ETCs grouped by similar characteristics and locations can result in varying downstream responses, the composite analysis reveals some areas of consistently altered fire weather for ETCs which recurve at certain longitudinal ranges, including the Pacific Northwest and northern Intermountain West..."
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"...The study findings also indicate that floods had no significant effect on the firm?s profit, and wildfires had no significant impact on the forestry firms? profit..."
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"...Damage to the environment or the ecosystem because of natural lightning or human-induced circumstances can lead to losses that reverberate across decades..."
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"...Researchers employed in-depth interviews to uncover similarities and differences in land and wildfire management preferences among what would appear to many to be a relatively homogenous population in a valley on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, Utah..."
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"...Here we provide a forward-looking assessment of the impacts of floods, storms, and wildfires on a universe of securities representative of global market capitalization, using the structural climate credit-risk model CLIMACRED-PHYS..."
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"...This work documents recurrent Cisuralian wildfire based on the occurrence of fossil charcoal from India..."
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"...Understanding the characteristics of wildfire-affected communities and the importance of particular factors of different dimensions, is paramount to improve prevention and mitigation strategies, tailored to people's needs and abilities..."
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