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"...KYIV, Ukraine (AP) Russia launched a barrage of missiles against Ukraine overnight, in attacks that appeared to target the countrys energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, Russia said its air defense systems had intercepted more than 60 Ukrainian drones over the southern Krasnodar region..."
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"...Three people were hurt in Nebraskas Lancaster County when a tornado hit an industrial building, causing it to collapse with 70 people inside. Several were trapped, but everyone was evacuated and the injuries were not life-threatening, authorities said..."
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"...DAWSON CREEK, B. C. A wildfire has been reported in the North Brassey Creek area, just north of Fellers Heights and approximately 40 kilometres southwest of Dawson Creek..."
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"...BC Wildfire Services lists the nearby 76-hectare Wildmare Creek fire as “being held” after it led to the first evacuation order of the wildfire season in the province earlier this week..."
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"...The tax first came into effect in 2008. According to the B. C..."
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"...OMAHA, Neb. (AP) A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday afternoon, demolishing homes as the twister tore for miles along farmland and into subdivisions. It wasnt yet clear if anyone was injured or killed in the storm..."
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"...There is also the problem of bank erosion caused by the river swelling too wide during heavy rains..."
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"...Kaya Konopnicki, the president of Nature Calgary, says people living in 48 countries are competing to see which city has the most urban biodiversity, including 40 Canadian cities..."
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"...The destructive wildfire and risk of future wildfires isn't the only reason for the need to expand fire services in the area. There's also the steady population growth in the community, which is seeing more people moving to the region..."
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"...Gerald Cheng, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, said a Colorado low is pushing warm air into the region causing a temperature spike along with a risk of thundershowers..."
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"...CHARLIE LAKE, B. C. A water treatment facility is slated for construction at a Charlie Lake mobile home park infamous for unsafe drinking water..."
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"...The federal agency says the measure was a pilot project to encourage visitors to take responsibility for waste destined for landfills..."
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"...NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Flooding and heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 70 people since mid-March, a government spokesperson said Friday, twice as many as were reported earlier this week..."
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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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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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"...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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"...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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"...Usually, environmental hazards, such as wildfires, are part of the regular environmental dynamic and not considered a threat to biodiversity..."
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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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