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Rotting food and closed highways a concern as Jasper evacuation nears second week

Rotting food and closed highways a concern as Jasper evacuation nears second week

EDMONTON — Parks Canada says it realizes wildfire evacuees from Jasper worry about what rotting food will do to their homes and that others wonder when a critical highway through the national park will reopen, but it says the blaze continues to burn
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Fires in the West are becoming ever bigger, consuming. Why and what can be done?

Fires in the West are becoming ever bigger, consuming. Why and what can be done?

Decades of snuffing out fires at the first sign of smoke combined with climate change have laid the groundwork for a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the western U.S. and Canada, experts say.
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Firefighters helped by cooler weather battle blaze that has scorched area larger than Los Angeles

Firefighters helped by cooler weather battle blaze that has scorched area larger than Los Angeles

FOREST RANCH, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in Northern California received some help from the weather hours after it exploded in size, scorching an area greater than the size of Los Angeles.
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Mudslide kills 15 people near tourist site in China as rains from tropical storm Gaemi drench region

Mudslide kills 15 people near tourist site in China as rains from tropical storm Gaemi drench region

BEIJING (AP) — Fifteen people were killed after a mudslide hit a homestay house in a tourist area in southeastern China on Sunday as heavy rains from what remained of a tropical storm drenched the region, state media said.
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Scientists seeing change in puffins as the tuxedo birds adapt to climate change

Scientists seeing change in puffins as the tuxedo birds adapt to climate change

FREDERICTON — The puffins of Machias Seal Island are feeling the heat. Scientists say there is a link between warming waters and changes in the birds' size and their beaks, as well as fluctuations in reproduction and the survival of chicks.
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Quebec municipalities using artificial intelligence to track tree cover, cars, pools

Quebec municipalities using artificial intelligence to track tree cover, cars, pools

MONTREAL — Municipalities in Quebec’s capital region have recently begun using artificial intelligence to track everything from tree cover to cars -- and even backyard pools.
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Firefighters helped by cooler weather battle blaze that has scorched area size of Los Angeles

Firefighters helped by cooler weather battle blaze that has scorched area size of Los Angeles

FOREST RANCH, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in Northern California received some help from the weather Saturday hours after it exploded in size, scorching an area greater than the size of Los Angeles.
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Parks Canada official says wildfire in Jasper National Park could burn for months

Parks Canada official says wildfire in Jasper National Park could burn for months

HINTON, ALBERTA — A Parks Canada official says a wildfire that's destroyed hundreds of structures in the town of Jasper and continues to burn out-of-control in the national park could still be burning months from now.
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Life and death in the heat. What it feels like when Earth's temperatures soar to record highs

Life and death in the heat. What it feels like when Earth's temperatures soar to record highs

BENI MELLAL, Morocco (AP) — In the unrelenting heat of Morocco’s Middle Atlas, people were sleeping on rooftops.
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Heat wave forces Iran to shutter government offices and banks. Electricity consumption soars

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A heat wave blanketing Iran has forced authorities to cut operating hours at various facilities Saturday and order all government and commercial institutions to shutter the following day as hospitals receive over 200 people for he
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