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• Southern California Fire Season Longer and Hotter

  
  California Fire News - Structure, Wildland, EMS — Authority: 129
  Fire seasons: Somethings changing here 2003 - A Rancho Cucamonga resident prepares to evacuate as flames from the Grand Prix Fire whip toward her north Rancho Cucamonga neighborhood on Oct. 24, 2003. The fire, one of the largest and most destructive in the history of the Inland Valley, started in Fontana ...
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• Teen charged for starting two San Bernardino County arson wildfires

  
  California Fire News - Structure, Wildland, EMS — Authority: 129
  Teen charged with starting 2 California wildfires (AP) – 2 days ago SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A 16-year-old Southern California boy was charged Wednesday as an adult for allegedly starting two arson wildfires in San Bernardino County earlier this year. Ricky Sean Lukacs will be arraigned in adult court on ...
  3 days ago

• Skull with bullet hole found in Angeles National Forest

  
  L.A. NOW — Authority: 788
  A human skull with a bullet hole in it has been found in the Angeles National Forest. Two hikers came across it Thursday evening on a hillside that had been burned in the Station fire. Homicide detectives are overseeing the investigation but dont yet know how long the skull was there, said Los Angeles County ...
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• Teen charged with setting 2 Yuciapa-area wildfires

  
  L.A. NOW — Authority: 788
  A 16-year-old boy was charged with setting two wildfires in the Yuciapa area that burned more than 1,000 acres earlier this year. Ricky Sean Lukacs was charged as an adult by the San Bernardino County district attorneys office. Officials said Lukacs was initially suspected in a string of fires in the area. At the ...
  5 days ago

• Wild chimps have near human understanding of fire

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  The use and control of fire are behavioral characteristics that distinguish humans from other animals. Now anthropologists report that savanna chimpanzees in Senegal have a near human understanding of wildfires and change their behavior in anticipation of the fires movement.
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• Wild chimps in Senegal have near human understanding of fire

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, December 23 (ANI): A new study has found that savanna chimpanzees in Senegal have a near human understanding of wildfires and change their behavior in anticipation of the fire’s movement.Iowa State University anthropologist Jill Pruetz and Thomas LaDuke, an associate professor of biological sciences at ...
  6 days ago

• Rock-climbing spot in Angeles National Forest to stay closed because of frogs, wildfire

  
  L.A. NOW — Authority: 788
  The temporary closure of a popular rock-climbing spot in the Angeles National Forest has been extended for another year to protect an endangered frog species inhabiting the area, officials said today. Damage to the forest from the Station fire, which has increased the risk of mudslides, has made that area an even ...
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• Supervisor calls for federal probe of Station fire operations after Times report raises questions

  
  L.A. NOW — Authority: 788
  Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich has called for a congressional inquiry into the U.S. Forest Service’s response to the Station fire in the wake of a Times report that a heavy attack with water-dropping aircraft was canceled on the critical second day of the blaze. The Forest Service’s own records ...
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• Request for Station fire choppers not heeded, Times investigation shows

  
  L.A. NOW — Authority: 788
  Newly released records contradict a finding by the U.S. Forest Servicethat steep terrain prevented the agency from using aircraft to attack-- and potentially contain -- the Station fire just before it beganraging out of control. Experts on Forest Service tactics alsodispute the agencys conclusion that helicopters and ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
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• Wildfires Scorch Australia, Home Destroyed

  
  India News : Nhatky.in — Authority: 494
  SYDNEY : Australian firefighters battled nearly 100 blazes on Thursday which engulfed at least one home and put several others under threat. More than 200 firefighters using 50 firetrucks and five aircraft fought one of the fiercest infernos at Londonderry near  Australia’s biggest city Sydney, where the ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• How Kids Could Have Prevented the California Wildfires

  
  Environmental Graffiti — Authority: 593
  As the California wildfires ravaged the Golden State, inhabitants of Americas west coast saw their property engulfed and homes annihilated, while also suffering hundreds of casualties. Just last August, two firefighters died after their vehicle was overrun by flames north of Los Angeles. Yet in... This is just a ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
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• The Velocity Fire Force Tanker

  
  Firegeezer.com — Authority: 148
  George Sack has built a specially-designed tanker truck that blasts water and retardant ahead of oncoming flames.
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