Sentences with phrase «by wildfire after»

There is no knowing the future trajectory of tar sands output now that its production capital, Fort McMurray in Canada, has been devastated by wildfire after unusually dry weather some blamed on global warming.

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Huang compared this to the bitcoin protocol, which was developed by a team but has spread like wildfire after becoming open - source.

A woman faces up to a year in jail and $ 10,000 in fines if convicted on price - gouging charges after allegedly raising the monthly rent by $ 4,000 on her Marin County home in the days following the October wildfires.

He said he was «disappointed» by politicians who came to stand on his property after the wildfire and voice their support but have done little to help him in his struggle.

Strigul and Lienard plan to use LES to help forest managers determine which species of trees and other ecological factors are necessary for forests to reestablish themselves after being destroyed by wildfires and other disturbances.

These questions sent us digging into a stack of 1,702 news articles published by local media in Colorado before, during and after the 2012 wildfire season — the state's worst in history.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

Alas, Jacob's news spreads like wildfire, and this film, which was directed with much passion by Frank Beyer from Holocaust survivor Jurek Becker's script, goes on to reveal what a double - edged sword hope can be when it is after all false and when the threat of deportation to concentration camps is constant.

SIMILES, METAPHORS, AND FOOD By Debbie Burke A few days ago, after a brief but welcome rain shower washed the choking wildfire smoke from the Big Skies of Montana, I visited a friend's cherry orchard on Flathead Lake.

(Bezzubov's recent solo landscape work, made in places after natural disasters, will be published in 2009 by Nazraeli Press as his first monograph, Wildfire.)

With Pakistan bracing for more flooding, Russia facing the destruction wrought by extreme heat and wildfires and a variety of American communities slowly recovering after extraordinary floods earlier in the year, it's a good time to examine ways to limit losses in turbulent times and changing climes.

In news report after news report, someone affected by a recent wildfire or flood was quoted as saying, «I've never seen it like this before.»

For a state whose 100 million acres are 80 percent covered by forest and rangelands, it's an existential concern, particularly after last year's devastating wildfire season.

An internal investigation into a fake news conference staged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency during last month's California wildfires found that the agency's press secretary directed aides to pose as reporters, secretly coached them during the briefing and ended the event after a final, scripted question was asked, according to a senior FEMA official.

It allowed people to come together and not only share experiences, it allowed them to assemble in groups — witness how @kevinokeefe organized his Beer for Bloggers event Friday evening after the last session by simply blogging and tweeting about it — which was then virally picked up and spread like wildfire at the Conference.

The video spread like wildfire on sites such as 4chan, Twitter, and Facebook, after being posted to YouTube by an account with fewer than 1,000 followers, the New York Times found (paywall).

After all, wildfires are common in Yellowstone (an average of 24 fires is ignited by lightening alone) but rarely burn as much as 100 acres — combined.