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Another smoky day in some communities around the region.
There's a special air quality statement in effect with a wildfire smoke advisory from active wildfires in the central interior of BC, as well as wildfires in Washington and Idaho.
Persons with chronic underlying medical conditions should postpone strenuous exercise until the advisory is lifted.
As for the wildfire situation, the only fire of note in our region according to the Southeast Fire Centre remains the 120-hectare Slocan Park fire
Yesterday 60 firefighters and seven helicopters continued to work on the blaze, and the evacuation alert was continuing for residents in the area.
There's a special air quality statement in effect with a wildfire smoke advisory from active wildfires in the central interior of BC, as well as wildfires in Washington and Idaho.
Persons with chronic underlying medical conditions should postpone strenuous exercise until the advisory is lifted.
As for the wildfire situation, the only fire of note in our region according to the Southeast Fire Centre remains the 120-hectare Slocan Park fire
Yesterday 60 firefighters and seven helicopters continued to work on the blaze, and the evacuation alert was continuing for residents in the area.
Dramatic new images taken from space have confirmed a trend scientists and conservationists have been following for years -- the largest reservoir in the United States is shrinking and may reach dangerously low levels in the near future.
The stunning new pictures released by NASA, taken about 13 months apart by the Landsat 8 satellite, show how the water levels on Lake Mead have dropped, revealing more and more dry land. When compared with levels in January 2013, when the lake was above 1122 feet, the staggering drop becomes even more obvious. The water levels on Lake Mead have not dropped below 1078 feet since the Hoover Dam was completed nearly 75 years ago, but scientists expect that might finally happen soon.
Lake Mead is fed primarily by the Colorado River Basin and provides water for roughly 20 million farms, businesses and residents who live in Nevada, Arizona and parts of California, according to CBS News, and since 2000, the lake has lost an estimated 4 trillion gallons of water.
"It's a pretty critical point," Pat Mulroy, who serves as general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, told CBS. "The rate at which our weather patterns are changing is so dramatic that our ability to adapt to it is really crippled."
The potential crisis facing Lake Mead and the broader Colorado River Basin has caught the attention of some celebrities too. Well-known conservationist and Hollywood A-listers Robert Redford and Will Ferrell teamed up earlier this year to try to raise awareness for a project to help revive the river by adding water to it for the Raise the River campaign.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation expects the water levels at Lake Mead to drop to 1,080 feet in November of this year but don't predict a major crisis yet.
The stunning new pictures released by NASA, taken about 13 months apart by the Landsat 8 satellite, show how the water levels on Lake Mead have dropped, revealing more and more dry land. When compared with levels in January 2013, when the lake was above 1122 feet, the staggering drop becomes even more obvious. The water levels on Lake Mead have not dropped below 1078 feet since the Hoover Dam was completed nearly 75 years ago, but scientists expect that might finally happen soon.
Lake Mead is fed primarily by the Colorado River Basin and provides water for roughly 20 million farms, businesses and residents who live in Nevada, Arizona and parts of California, according to CBS News, and since 2000, the lake has lost an estimated 4 trillion gallons of water.
"It's a pretty critical point," Pat Mulroy, who serves as general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, told CBS. "The rate at which our weather patterns are changing is so dramatic that our ability to adapt to it is really crippled."
The potential crisis facing Lake Mead and the broader Colorado River Basin has caught the attention of some celebrities too. Well-known conservationist and Hollywood A-listers Robert Redford and Will Ferrell teamed up earlier this year to try to raise awareness for a project to help revive the river by adding water to it for the Raise the River campaign.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation expects the water levels at Lake Mead to drop to 1,080 feet in November of this year but don't predict a major crisis yet.
Iraqi troops, security forces and tanks surged into Baghdad on Sunday
as political turmoil deepened over who should lead the country.
Military tanks were
deployed to several neighborhoods in central Baghdad, two Iraqi police
officials told CNN. The officials said there are also significantly more
troops in Baghdad's Green Zone, the secure area where many government
buildings, the military headquarters and the U.S. Embassy are located.
The stepped-up troop presence comes as Iraqi forces battled Islamist militants
in northern Iraq, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki accused Iraq's
newly elected President of violating the country's constitution by
extending the deadline for Iraq's biggest political coalitions to
nominate a candidate for prime minister.
The precise reason for
the growing number of troops in the Iraqi capital was unclear. But CNN
military analyst retired Lt. Col. Rick Francona described it as an
"ominous" development.
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