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"...Although killer whales can often get themselves out of trouble, other times people have to step in to help. And when scientists want killer whales to moveto lead them back to open water or away from an oil spillwhat can they do?..."

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"...The climate models did not show a trend similar to the drying that Panama experienced last year. In fact, many models show a wetter trend in the region due to climate change from carbon dioxide and methane emissions produced by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas..."

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"...KRYO PIGADI, Greece (AP) Skimming over miles of hills blackened by wildfires west of Athens, Fire Lt. Col. Ioannis Kolovos readies his elite fire crew crouched inside a helicopter..."

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"...WESTMORELAND, Kan. (AP) One person died Tuesday when a tornado ripped through the small city of Westmoreland in northeastern Kansas, authorities said..."

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"...A space dedicated to older adult programs and services is set to be redeveloped. Rockway Centre in Kitchener was approved for redevelopment during a council meeting on April 29. City staff will now start a three-step strategy that includes looking for a development partner for the project..."

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"...Since October, behind-the-scenes discussions about what to do centred on one question: How much does the federal government want to test what the Supreme Court said?“Some people are saying, I think it's OK to test a little bit, and other people are saying you probably don't want to go there. And I'm torn because part of me obviously wants to be as ambitious as possible, and part of me feels, ‘Oh my God, what if we lose another court case?’” Guilbeault told Canada’s National Observer in an interview before the amendments were tabled. “Our Impact Assessment Act would fall apart and then we would have nothing..."

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"...The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is complete and the Canada Energy Regulator has given the go-ahead for the project to open..."

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"...HUDSONS HOPE, B. C. With wildfire season underway in northeast B..."

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"...TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Florida, perhaps the most vulnerable state to sea-level rise and extreme weather, is on the verge of repealing what's left of a 16-year-old law that lists climate change as a priority when making energy policy decisions. Instead, the state would make energy affordability and availability its main focus..."

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"...The campaign submitted more than 20,000 signatures but would need only about 13,000 valid ones to qualify for the ballot. If verified by Solano Countys elections office, voters will decide in the fall whether to allow urban development on land currently zoned for agriculture. The land-use change would be necessary for the development to be built..."

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"...The Alberta government is helping fund what it says is Canada's first test site for geothermal energy drilling techniques..."

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"...LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N. J. (AP) New Jersey is seeking a new round of proposals to build wind energy farms off its coastline, forging ahead with its clean energy goals even as local opposition and challenging economics create blowback to the effort..."

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"...MONTREAL Air Canada is pressing pause on a new seat selection fee a mere couple of days after it implemented the policy, but not before drawing the ire of some travellers online..."

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"...OTTAWA Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says all options to eliminate plastic waste are still on the table in negotiations for a global plastic treaty including putting legislated caps on how much plastic the world produces in the first place..."

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"...Storm Daniel devastated the city of Derna in Libya after heavy rainfall broke a dam, causing extreme flooding downstream..."

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"...There's a long list of known ways in which wildfire smoke can negatively affect corn and other crops, but could the overall effect of the smoky haze in summer potentially be positive for yields? It's a complex question to answer, says Dan Quinn, extension corn specialist with Purdue University, in this Corn School episode recorded. ..."

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"...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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"...Smoke from wildfires contains many air pollutants of concern and epidemiological studies have identified associations between exposure to wildfire smoke PM2..."

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"...Canopy cover is a primary attribute used in empirical wildfire models for certain fuel types..."

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"...To show the real-life applicability of our proposed architecture, it is introduced in a realistic setting such as wildfire monitoring, including a conceptual overview of how the proposed architecture could be implemented in this domain..."

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"...In this paper, we attempt to model information propagation in online social networks using a nature-inspired approach based on a modified forest-fire model..."

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"...In this paper, we convert excess mortality estimates due to increases in extreme weather from climate change (heat waves, cold waves, droughts, wildfires, river and coastal floods, and windstorms) into potential reductions in life expectancy at birth in thirty-one European countries..."

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"...Due to drastic alterations of soil properties and to the land surfaces by these fires, risks of flash floods, debris flows, and severe erosion increases for these areas, which can have catastrophic consequences for biota, people and property..."

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"...A clear focus has been placed on earthquakes and flooding while wildfires and drought have been neglected..."

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"...Fire detection is a vital task for social, economic and environmental reasons..."

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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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"...Natural Resources Canada (Calgary AB): Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) is a national, collaborative, multidisciplinary geoscience research program of NRCans Office of Energy Research and Development (OERD) that enables..."

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"...Exceptional communication skills, the ability to provide excellent client service and a commitment to sustainable design..."

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"...food preparation, setup, assembly, portioning, packaging and distribution of food and supply items, general cleaning and sanitizing of area and equipment, ware washing and waste removal, re-stocking..."

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"...Knowledge of environmental legislation including the Fisheries Act, Navigation Protection Act, Species at Risk..."

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