News About Fires 15-MAY-08 en-us Miami (AFP) May 13, 2008 - Firefighters in Florida are battling wildfires Tuesday that have engulfed thousands of acres (hectares) along the southern state's central Atlantic coast, ravaging dozens of homes and shutting down major thoroughfares.]]> ]]> Loiri Porto San Paolo, Italy (AFP) April 19, 2008 - Firefighters from five southern European nations battled with language barriers as well as flames during European Union-funded joint exercises this weekend.]]> Athens (AFP) April 17, 2008 - Greece's lethal forest fires of last year are set to become the norm across the Mediterranean thanks to climate change, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned Thursday.]]> Madrid (AFP) April 8, 2008 - Fires destroyed more than twice as much land in drought-hit Spain during the first three months of 2008 as over the corresponding period last year, the government said Tuesday.]]> ]]> Kuala Lumpur (AFP) April 8, 2008 - Indonesia said Tuesday it was confident of reducing the number of illegal fires or "hotspots" this year, as the region braces for the annual dry-season haze crisis.]]> Berlin (UPI) Feb 8, 2008 - A house fire in Germany that killed nine Turkish tenants has sparked serious tensions between German officials and the country's Turkish community, which suspects a racial motive behind the blaze.]]> Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 24, 2008 - In spite of the human suffering and environmental dangers they cause around the world, naturally burning coal fires and coal fires ignited by human activities receive little attention from the media, compared to other environmental catastrophes. Unfortunately, few university geoscience curricula devote time to the study of these fires. A new volume published by the Geological Society of America may help change that.]]> ]]> Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 23, 2008 - While forest fires can often result in an initial increase in water runoff from catchments, it's the forests and bush growing back that could cause future problems for water supplies by reducing stream flows. In the summer of 2002-03, bushfires burnt through 700,000 ha of forests in northeast Victoria. This region supplies 38 per cent of the water that flows into the Murray-Darling River, the main source of water supply for much of Australia's irrigated agriculture, the city of Adelaide and many towns along the river.]]> Los Angeles (AFP) Nov 25, 2007 - Firefighters were poised for victory in their battle against a wildfire that ravaged exclusive Malibu as a lull in winds allowed flames to be brought under control, officials said Sunday.]]> LaJolla CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2007 - Some of those fighting rampaging California wildfires in late October didn't wield shovels or hoses -- they worked with high-tech tools developed at the University of California, San Diego. UC San Diego's response to the nearby wildfires included innovative technologies that not only helped the local region respond and recover, but that also can save lives during emergencies elsewhere in the world.]]> SOLAR  ENERGY  SOLUTIONS

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]]> ]]> Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 06, 2007 - Large-scale fires in a western or southeastern state can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a few weeks as the state's entire motor vehicle traffic does in a year, according to newly published research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder.]]> Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 31, 2007 - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday ordered firefighters to prepare for renewed wildfires ahead of powerful flame-fuelling gusts forecast for next weekend.]]> Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 29, 2007 - Firefighters have tamed the handful of wildfires still burning in California, but officials on Monday warily stopped short of declaring outright victory in their battle with the blazes.]]> Advertise in Terra Daily and reach thousands of industry, government and science readers the world over.

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