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... GWEN IFILL: The largest of 27 wildfires in California kept expanding today. The Rocky Fire has now spread across more than 100 square miles. It's burning some 100 miles north of San Francisco, and, so far, it's only 12 percent contained. Overnight, the blaze jumped a highway ...
ion acres range-wide. In 2011 NBCI introduced a fine-resolution mapping system to help the growing cadre of state wildlife biologists identify and carry out conservation projects in areas that promise to offer the greatest return on investment. In semi-arid Texas, for instance, Perez and other state biologists ...
... deal with, and they expect us to take action now." The Senate blocked a $3.5 billion border package that also included money for Western wildfires and Israel, with Republicans and two Democrats — Louisiana's Mary Landrieu and Joe Manchin of West Virginia — opposed. Opponents argued that the bill amounted ...
... last-minute scramble for votes for a $659 million border bill, House Republican leaders sought to tamp down tea party unrest over immigration stirred by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. The leadership scheduled a companion vote on legislation that would block Obama from extending deportation relief to any more immigrants living ...
... across Southern Arizona last night. It knocked out power and canceled flights and fireworks celebrations. And farther west, in California, the dry conditions fueled several wildfires. In the mountain town of Julian, Fourth of July celebrations that draw about 5,000 spectators were canceled. The fire there is only 40 ...
... oil and gas investments came late, and, as the Washington Post reports, his divestment from fossil fuels is still not complete. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, overshadowed fellow Republicans Sen. Rand Paul and Texas Gov. Rick Perry at the GOP convention in Texas over the weekend. For a state with ...
... began in 1895, it's in the big, wild weather where the average person feels climate change the most, said co-author Katharine Hayhoe, a Texas Tech University climate scientist. Extreme weather like droughts, storms and heat waves hit us in the pocketbooks and can be seen by our own ...
... It includes $8 billion in loan guarantees for energy efficiency and fossil fuel projects. And it helps farming and ranching communities prepare for climate-related wildfires and drought and protects coastlines against flooding caused by sea-level rise. Daniel Weiss, senior fellow and director of climate strategy for the Center ...
Aerial view of the damage from Superstorm Sandy over the Atlantic Coast in Seaside Heights, New Jersey October 31. Sandy was one of 11 billion-dollar disasters to hit the U.S. this year. Pool Photo by Doug Mills via Reuters. Frankenstorm Sandy, wild winds in the Ohio Valley, wildfires in the Rockies and a sprawling drought...
A new statistical analysis from NASA reveals that the extreme summer heat felt by many Americans this year is the result of global warming. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Columbia University's James Hansen who says the greatest barrier to public recognition of human-made climate change is the natural variability of local climate.
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