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☆ Tourists are paddle boarding and frolicking in one of Earth's driest locations after record rains
  + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Read previewHeavy rainfall created a temporary lake in Death Valley National Park, one of Earth's driest locations, prompting travelers to take a potentially once-in-a-lifetime swim. The unexpected phenomenon began earlier this week at Death Valley's Badwater Basin after recent rainstorms battered California. Tourists wading through Death Valley's temporary lake. Tourists paddle boarding and wading in Death Valley's temporary lake. Two tourists sit beside Death Valley's temporary lake.
Persons: —, Ty ONeil, Andler, DAVID SWANSON, Heather, Bob Gang, Heather Gang, Guo Yu, hydrometeorology, Tiffany Pereira Organizations: Service, Lake Manly, National Park Services, Business, Associated Press, AP, Tourists, Research, Getty Locations: Death, California, Badwater, Lake, Lake Manley, Southern California
☆ Highly trained dogs take on mission of finding Hawaii fire victims
  + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Brad Brooks | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Dogs that will work fire scenes are trained to detect burnt flesh - and can distinguish human remains from those of pets and other animals. Just as teaching hospitals to use cadavers to teach medical students, Cablk said, trainers use human flesh and blood to train dogs. Some countries don't allow human remains in such training, and in those places dogs are taught using animal remains, making rescues more difficult. Cadaver dogs are trained to associate the scent of human remains with a reward, typically a chew toy, Cablk said. "That's the dog's paycheck," Cablk said.
Persons: Dominick Del Vecchio, Mary Cablk, Cablk, Jeremy Greenberg, Greenberg, Brad Brooks, Donna Bryson, Stephen Coates Organizations: FEMA, Rescue, Task Force, Nevada Task Force, REUTERS, Acquire, Desert Research Institute, Federal Emergency Management, Thomson Locations: Nevada, Maui, Lahaina , Hawaii, U.S, California, , California, Longmont , Colorado
☆ Cadaver dogs are in Maui to help find the deceased
  + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
As Maui officials continue searching through the wreckage for the many who are still missing after wildfires tore through the island, they have a new tool at hand: human remains detection dogs, often called cadaver dogs. Human remains detection dogs are one of several kinds of working dogs trained to detect scents, like bomb or drug detection dogs. Search dogs are often dogs with a working heritage, like border collies or German shepherds. Lynne Engelbert, a human remains detection dog handler and teacher, told CNN the job requires a specific canine personality. Lisa Briggs, a forensic criminologist who specializes in the use of human remains detection dogs, told CNN not all human remains detection dogs have the same skills – and the dogs in Maui would need to be imprinted specifically on burnt remains in order to search effectively.
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☆ How Unusual Was This Winter’s Snowfall Across the U.S.?
  + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Zach Levitt | Elena Shao | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +9 min
Boston New York City 120 inches 120 80 80 Previous years since 2003 40 40 This year Oct. Dec. Feb. Apr. Oct. Dec. Feb. Apr. Philadelphia Washington, D.C. 120 120 80 80 40 40 Oct. Dec. Feb. Apr. Oct. Dec. Feb. Apr. Boston 100 inches Previous years since 2003 80 60 40 20 This year Oct. Dec. Feb. Apr.
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☆ Why California’s 2022 Wildfire Season Was Unexpectedly Quiet
  + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Elena Shao | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +8 min
Maps of California show the perimeters of wildfire burns for every year between 2018 and 2022 (desktop version) or 2017 and 2022 (mobile version). The extent of acreage burned in 2022 is far less than what burned in 2021 and 2022, and looks more similar to what burned in 2019. 2018 2017 Camp fire 2022 2021 2020 McKinney fire 2020 was the state’s worst fire year on record. Wildfires have burned about 362,000 acres this year, compared to 2.5 million acres last year and a historic 4.3 million acres in 2020. Acres Burned by Wildfires in California A bar chart showing the total acres burned by California wildfires since 1987.
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