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NCAR analysis shows widespread pollution from 2004 wildfires

Wildfires in Alaska and Canada in 2004 emitted about as much carbon monoxide as did human-related activities in the continental United States during the same time period, according to new research by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The fires also increased atmospheric concentrations of ground-level ozone across much of the Northern Hemisphere. The NCAR study, which ind...

NASA study: Alaskan fires affected Houston air quality in 2004

An innovative new NASA-funded study based on a combination of satellite data, computer models and weather balloon readings finds that smoke from Alaskan and Canadian forest fires as much as doubled ground-level ozone thousands of miles away in Houston during a two-day period in July 2004. The study, which will appear online Sept. 26 in the Journal of Geophysical Research, offers scientists a rare...
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Metavante fires 180 North American workers

Chip Swearngan characterized the firings as managerial expense control decisions made as part of setting bus...

IT wildfires

The heat of technological innovation sometimes starts out-of-control wildfires of politics, process collapses or budget challenges that rage through your IT shop. If youre lucky, youve got some folks who are good in a crisis and can be rapidly shifted from their regular duties to handle the situation. However, burnt-out leadership, scorched morale and seared delivery reputations are more common r...
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Health Minister fires another salvo at MCI

Kasauli (HP), Sept 27: Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss today fired another salvo at Medical Council of India – The apex medical body of the country. He said: "influence of mafias over such a regulatory body was // a matter of grave concern." The MCI is an autonomous body and the government has no say in its functioning. What irks the minister is lack of transparency in its fu...

Indonesia Reportedly Fires Top Animal Health Official

Even as Indonesia struggles to cope with the full extent of bird flu, the country's top official in charge of animal health has been transferred from his post//. But agriculture ministry spokesman only commented that Sjamsul Bahri's transfer was of a routine nature. Sjamsul Bahri was working as director of animal health at the agriculture ministry since September 2005. Since his depart...

Higher Health Cost Due to Forest Fires

In a study to assess the economic impact of air quality changes arising from forest fires, human health risks were found to be second only to timber losses in terms// of dollars and cents. In the study published in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, researchers from University of Alberta in Edmonton found the increases in human health risks were "substantial" in economic terms....

Burning fires in Northern Ontario Cause Hundreds to leave their Homes

Raging forest fires have forced over 1,300 people to leave their homes in eight northwestern Ontario communities while firefighters continued to battle// the hundreds of forest fires on Friday. According to Ontario fire officials the situation is the worst that they have ever encountered at this time of year over the past two decades. People with smoke vulnerability like children, the...

Southern California Wildfires Pose Health Risks to Children

USC researchers find nonasthmatics share similar symptoms as those with asthma Los Angeles, Dec. 1, 2006– In October of 2003, multiple wildfires raged throughout Southern California. Now, researchers// at the University of Southern California (USC) report that residents without asthma in wildfire-endangered regions suffered as much as those with asthma. The findings appear in th...

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