fires
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Sydney Smoke Is Triggering Indoor Alarms
As over 80 fires continue to blaze across the state, perhaps the worst blanket of smoke in the past few weeks has descended upon Sydney. The haze is even drifting indoors (as we can attest in our office alone) and has gotten so bad that indoor smoke alarms are being triggered.
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A Surprising Answer To A Hot Question: Controlled Burns Often Fail To Slow A Bushfire
As sure as night follows day, this week’s bushfires prompted inevitable debate about whether fire authorities should have carried out more hazard reduction burning, and whether opposition from conservationists prevented this.
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Scientists Invent LED Device To Quickly Treat Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Though It’s Not Ready For Humans Yet
Doctors at Harvard think they’ve found a new way to stop a silent killer by literally shining a light on it. In experiments with rats, their light-based device was able to quickly clear away carbon monoxide stuck to blood cells. The nifty invention may someday help doctors and EMTs treat life-threatening cases of carbon monoxide…
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Ryan Zinke Says ‘Radical Environmentalists’ Are To Blame For The Wildfire That’s Killed 79 People
Americans of all political persuasions are rushing to blame the devastating Camp Fire on their political foes, but Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke would like everyone to take a deep breath and calm down… and recognise that “radical environmentalists” are to blame.