Cool helps Australia's blaze battle
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Firefighters battling wildfires that have raged out of control for more than two weeks in Australia have taken advantage of cooler conditions to clear land in an attempt to contain the blazes.
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Australia experienced one of its hottest years on record in 2007, and climate experts have warned that the higher temperatures are likely a taste of things to come as weather patterns change.
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Calm, cooler weather and unusually high humidity Friday helped firefighters battling a wildfire that had threatened hundreds of homes and burned four cabins.
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In one corner of drought-stricken Queensland, a community tries cloud seeding as a last resort in an effort to bring rain
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Bushfires burned across four  Australian states on Tuesday, destroying houses and blackening  an area larger than Luxembourg, with one major fire front  stretching 250 km (155 miles).
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By REX BOWMAN  Firefighters battling a five-day-old, 900-acre blaze in stiff winds and steep terrain near the Virginia-Kentucky line pinned it down yesterday with help from a light snow.
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FIREFIGHTERS will backburn this afternoon in an attempt to gain control of a bushfire in rugged country in the Grampians National Park in Victoria&#39;s west.
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By McKENZIE-McLEAN Jo  Emergency services are developing a plan to cope with a major fire in Christchurch's Bottle Lake Forest this summer.   Last summer, about 500 spectators obstructed police and firefighters who were battling a fire at the plantation.
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Cool, damp weather moved into Southern California from the Pacific Ocean on Friday boosting efforts to beat down stubborn wildfires, while weary families returned to find many homes unscathed but hundreds of others burned to rubble.
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AN intense backburning effort by about 300 firefighters in Victoria&#39;s Grampians National Park is expected to protect nearby townships from bushfires.
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By ROHAN SULLIVAN  SYDNEY, Australia - A saloon-style striptease, complete with corsets and balloons, at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists hot and bothered and the organizers in boiling water.
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SILVERADO CANYON, California  - Cool weather and calm skies helped thousands of firefighters beat back Southern California wildfires on Saturday, although flare-ups in some places meant the battle was not yet over.
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Australia's deadliest bushfires for 22 years left nine people dead and dozens injured as firefighters fought to control blazes raging in two states and threatening a third.
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NASA's thermal-imaging sensor helps fight the flames.
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Firefighters say they are prepared for the worst in their battle against bushfires burning out of control across the Australian state of Victoria.
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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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The heatwave which killed thousands in Europe in 2003 could soon seem cool, UK climate scientists say.