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"...Smoke forecasts indicate the air pollution originates from wildfires burning in the Fort Nelson region, traveling towards Fort St. John and across the border into Alberta..."

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"...Halifax Water says crews were sent to Dartmouth to undertake an emergency water main repair on Friday evening..."

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"...Those are the questions that UN agencies on the ground in Madagascar are considering as the island nation struggles against climate change, huge humanitarian needs and persistent underdevelopment. UNICEFs Deputy Representative, Head of Programmes Gilles Chevalier and Natasha van Rijn the Resident Representative for the UN Development Programme discuss how changes in the way they are working are helping to reinforce resilience and sustainable development. Gilles Chevalier: One of the major decisions we have made at UNICEF is to reinforce our staff footprint in the south of Madagascar which has been affected by drought due to climate change and the El Nino effect..."

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"...The latest news of slowing demand for electric vehicles highlight the profound hazards of the federal governments Soviet-style mandate that 100 per cent of new light-duty vehicles sold must be electric or plug-in hybrid by 2035 (with interim targets of 20 per cent by 2026 and 60 per cent by 2030, with steep penalties for dealers missing these targets). The targets were wild to begin withas Manhattan Institute senior fellow Mark P. Mills observed, bans on conventional vehicles and mandated switches to electric mean, in jurisdictions such as Canada, consumers will need to adopt EVs at a scale and velocity 10 times greater and faster than the introduction of any new model of car in history..."

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"...Saturday is going to be mainly cloudy in the capital, with rain showers starting this afternoon, according to Environment Canada..."

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"...The Taliban Defense Ministry said in a statement Saturday that the countrys air force has already begun evacuating people in Baghlan and has rescued a large number of people stuck in flooded areas and transported 100 injured people to military hospitals in the region..."

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"...Human activity is suspected to be the cause of the fire, according to the Wildfire Service..."

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"...The quicker-than-usual rise of waters in Kwethluk caught that community off guard, acting city manager Samuel Nicori said. A state emergency management update Friday said some homes and the airstrip access road had been inundated with water, and that the sewage system was shut down due to flooding. Bottled water was flown in..."

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"...DAWSON CREEK, B. C. At the May 2nd Peace River Regional District meeting, representatives from BC Hydro presented the board with details on plans to bring clean energy economic development to British Columbia..."

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"...DAWSON CREEK, B. C. BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) is reporting a wildfire southeast of Dawson Creek on Friday afternoon..."

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"...In all, the Inflation Reduction Act provides $4 billion for mitigating drought in 17 western states, with the priority being the Colorado River Basin. However, the legislation also carved out $500 million for water management and conservation projects in other basins that are experiencing similar levels of long-term drought..."

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"...As all wildfires to date in the eastern region have been caused by human activity, Manitobans are reminded to carefully observe fire prevention measures. Be sure to check and maintain all equipment, such as vehicle tires, trailers, off-road vehicles and any other equipment travelling along roadways and trails, the bulletin said..."

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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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"...About 150 old brine wells in the area are being plugged..."

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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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"...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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"...Today wildfire is an important disturbance in many continental ecosystems, and it is assumed that with ongoing climate changes the frequencies and impacts of wildfires will increase in many regions..."

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"...Increasingly frequent large wildfires in the western US raise questions about the effects of climate and site-level factors on forest ecosystem resilience..."

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"...This study indicates that biochar addition in watersheds may not deteriorate the drinking water quality via the export of terrestrial DBP precursors like wildfire events..."

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"...The dataset is released in open access and is deemed to be useful for future wildfire evacuation modelling calibration and validation efforts..."

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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 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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"...hazardous waste, biomedical waste, and recyclable materials are managed Pollution prevention Corporate leadership, planning, and management Transportation focusing on clean and active Food..."

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"...Alternative development strategies to reduce energy and resource use, such as local collaboration and decision-making, sharing economies, resource redistribution, small-scale..."

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"...clean energy fuel cell products that enable optimized power systems for a range of applications..."

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