Australian bushfires leave grisly trail of environmental damage
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Tens of thousands of iconic Australian creatures including koalas and kangaroos may have died in fires that swept through vast tracts of southern Australia this week, environmentalists say.
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Wildfires have scorched over 5 million acres in Alaska as of Tuesday, forestry officials said, a new record that signals possible changes in climate conditions and the composition of the vast forests.
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Firefighters, volunteers and aircraft tackle forest blazes that have caused widespread death and destruction.
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Almost five years after a cyanide spill from a gold mine in northern Romania travelled down the Tisza river in Hungary, leaving a trail of ecological destruction in its wake, local communities in the region ...
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Blistering heat and hot dry winds have fanned the fires. Forests fires that have ravaged southern Europe during the past month were some of the worst on record, the European Commission has said. via Jackaranda
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Scores of firefighters Friday contained two bushfires which have destroyed four homes and burned through about 1,000 hectares of land in west Australia, emergency officials said.
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Australian police have launched a hunt for arsonists who lit a fatal wildfire in Victoria, as authorities said 32 homes had been razed in the inferno that has gripped the state for a fortnight.
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Flames fanned by strong winds and high temperatures hamper firefighters tackling bush fires in south-eastern Australia.
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Climate change in Sydney will cause a significant rise in heat-related deaths of people over 65 years of age by 2050, as Australia's biggest city suffers more heat waves, bushfires and floods, a new environment report says.
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An inquest is to start into the deaths of six tourists, including two from south Wales, in an Australian hostel fire.
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GENEVA -- Humanity's reliance on fossil fuels, the spread of cities, the destruction of natural habitat for farmland, and exploitation of the oceans are destroying earth's ability to sustain life, the environmental group World Wildlife Fund warned yesterday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Wildfires have scorched over  5 million acres in Alaska as of Tuesday, forestry officials  said, a new record that signals possible changes in climate  conditions and the composition of the vast forests.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Feb. 19--Normally, when a wildfire blackens hundreds of acres of sensitive resources, biologists bemoan the damage the flames caused the environment.   Not Sally Krenn.   The Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
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Greece&#39;s huge forest fires have been  blamed by some on global warming, but satellite images of smoke  plumes drifting as far as Africa prompt the question: are  forests a major source of greenhouse gas?
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Nine people were confirmed dead and 15 unaccounted for in Australia's deadliest bushfires for 20 years as firefighters battled blazes raging in two states and threatening a third.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Wildfires have scorched over 5 million acres in Alaska as of Tuesday, forestry officials said, a new record that signals possible changes in climate conditions and the composition of the vast forests.
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The devastation wrought by nature can be terrible. However, it can be made much worse by humans-by both our activity and inactivity.