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A California City Is Overrun by Crows. Could a Laser Be the Answer?
In a move befitting its Silicon Valley setting, the city of Sunnyvale, Calif., will aim a laser at 1,000 birds that have overwhelmed the downtown area during the pandemic.
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Rare Sierra Nevada red foxes survive massive Dixie fire that burned habitat
There might be something to the adage “clever as a fox.” When the monstrous Dixie fire scorched a northeastern California expanse that the elusive Sierra Nevada red fox calls home, wildlife officials were worried.
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Why the Huntington Beach oil spill is so harmful to wildlife
A ruptured pipeline spewed crude oil into the Pacific Ocean, and it may foul ecosystems for years to come.
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California Fire Approaches Lake Tahoe After Mass Evacuation
A ferocious wildfire swept toward Lake Tahoe on Tuesday just hours after roads were clogged with fleeing cars when the entire California resort city of South Lake Tahoe was ordered to evacuate and communities just across the state line in Nevada were warned to get ready to leave.
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Nevada records worst air quality on record as wildfire smoke spreads
Smoke from the raging wildfires in the West Coast was so severe that it created an air quality alert as far as Reno, Nevada, on Tuesday. Several Nevada counties reported their worst recorded air quality index numbers in the two decades they’ve been monitoring air quality.
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When hotter and drier means more – but eventually less – wildfire
There is abundant evidence that changes in the climate, both increased temperature and reduced precipitation, are making wildfires worse in the western U.S. The relationship between climate and wildfire seems obvious and universal: hotter + drier = more and worse wildfire. Yet the diversity of wildland areas in the western U.S. means that not all ecosystems respond in the same way to a hotter and drier climate. Understanding how and why climate change has different effects on wildfire is essential for effective management of our natural areas.
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Something is killing gray whales. Is it a sign of oceans in peril?
Gray whales are dying at alarming rates. A Times investigation of their migrations from Mexico to Alaska offers clues to what is causing this marine mystery.
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Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say News
A combination of intense heat and drought conditions is causing wildfires in Western Canada to generate their own weather systems, experts say.
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Evacuations ordered after two California wildfires converge into one
Crews and officials battling a large fire that has incinerated more than 190,000 acres (77,000 hectares) in northern California braced for the possibility on Sunday that smoke columns could spawn lightning storms capable of igniting more blazes.
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Wildfire smoke blowing across the U.S. is more toxic than we thought
Wildfires are threatening homes on the West Coast and in Canada, but their smoke is polluting air as far away as New York. From his uptown Manhattan home in Morningside Heights, Samir Kumar can usually see skyscrapers downtown. But this week, as smoke from wildfires raging in the western United States and Canada rode the jet stream to the East Coast, the city skyline was blurred out.
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California's latest bid to bolster its economy? Releasing 17 million fish into the San Francisco Bay.
Some 146 shipments of salmon will take a 30,000-mile-long truck journey from hatcheries to direct release sites to maximize their survival rate.
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Plastic debris on remote islands raises temperatures by 2.5C and threatens turtle populations
Study of Henderson Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands finds plastic acts as an insulator, making sand hotter and leading to more female turtle offspring.
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The science of bushfires is settled (part 2)
Eucalypts are incinerators from hell dressed up as trees. - I don't know where part 1 went. I also added some triumphal music to listen to as you read this. It is somewhat over the top!
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Another California drought in 2021 is possible, along with more wildfires
Only five years ago, California officials declared a four-year drought was finally over. Now it could be entering into another drought sooner than it would like.
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U.S. wildfire smoke has exposed millions to hazardous air pollution, analysis shows
Wildfires churning out dense plumes of smoke as they scorch huge swaths of the U.S. West Coast have exposed millions of people to hazardous pollution levels, causing emergency room visits to spike and potentially thousands of deaths among the elderly and infirm, according to an Associated Press analysis of pollution data and interviews with physicians, health authorities and researchers.
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Up to 48 species saved from extinction by conservation efforts, study finds
Up to 48 bird and mammal extinctions have been prevented by conservation efforts since a global agreement to protect biodiversity, according to a new study. The Iberian lynx, California condor and pygmy hog are among animals that would have disappeared without reintroduction programmes, zoo-based conservation and formal legal protections since 1993, research led by scientists at Newcastle University and BirdLife International found.
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California blaze, which burned 7,000 acres, caused by firework at gender-reveal party
The El Dorado fire in California that has burned more than 7,000 acres (2,800 hectares) was caused by a firework set off at a “gender-reveal party”, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has found.
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How software gets ahead of wildfires, 'the most complex natural phenomena'
Fire-predicting software can project how a fire could spread -- while it's still burning.
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Metallica Pledge $200,000 to Aid Wildfire Relief Efforts in California
Metallica are pitching in to help with the devastating wildfire season in California. The band said they've donated $100,000 through their All Within My Hands non-profit foundation to help in the recovery from the fires that have ripped through both Northern and Southern California over the past month, displacing thousands and leaving more than 500,000 in the dark due to power outages aimed at avoiding further blazes.
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New gel lets us spread flame retardant before wildfires start
The formula coats plants thoroughly and sticks to them even through light rain.
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