July 2015 named hottest month on record worldwide
NOAA and NASA officials report July 2015 as the warmest month globally since records began in 1880, with oceans at a record high and January–July also the warmest such period. Scientists attribute the rise to human-caused climate change and El Niño, predicting 2015 may become the hottest year on record.
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Earth
Washington
U.S
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA
Jake Crouch
NASA
Japanese Weather Agency
Jessica Blunden
Rouch, Blunden
Pacific
Firefighters killed in Washington wildfire burn over group
Three U S Forest Service firefighters died near Twisp Washington when their vehicle was overtaken by a firestorm during rapid battlefield assessment work. Four others were injured as blazes spread across roughly 140 square miles in the Methow River valley prompting evacuations for Twisp and Winthrop.
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Twisp, Wash
Washington State
Jay Inslee
Woods Canyon Road
Twisp
Methow River
Seattle
Winthrop
Okanogan County
Frank Rogers
U.S. Forest Service
Tom Zbyszewski
Andrew Zajac
Richard Wheeler
Zbyszewski
Whitman College
Walla Walla
Carlton
Bill Queen
Queen
Washington
Idaho
Oregon
Montana
California
Chris Schulte
Jessica Gardetto
National Interagency Fire Center
Boise
Yarnell
Arizona
Ton
Daniel Lyon
Puyalla Washington
Forest Service
Cition
Harborvie Center
State Department of Natural Resources
DNA
Carrie McCausland
Rick McCauley
Sun Mountain Lodge
Steve Morse
Sunken 1715 ship yields more gold coins
SEBASTIAN Florida AP Diver William Bartlett and two fellow treasure hunters uncovered 350 Spanish gold coins worth 4.5 million from the 1715 Fleet wrecks off Florida. The haul adds to a summer pattern of finds during the 300th anniversary of the hurricane wrecks.
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Florida
Atlantic Ocean
Fort Pierce
Fla
Martinez
Bartlett
Dan Beckingham
Spain
Havana
Melbourne
Brent Brisben
Queens Jewels
1715 Fleet
Brisben
Mel Fisher
State of Florida
Tallahassee
Miami
BP settlement money flows to governments in far flung places
BP's local government settlements from the 2010 spill total about 687.4 million to 383 entities in the five Gulf states, with nearly 8 million reaching more than 100 miles from the coast to places like the Mississippi Delta and central Alabama suburbs. Jackson Mississippi received 1.3 million and Birmingham Alabama about 1 million as cities far from the coast benefitted alongside coastal communities.
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Baton Rouge
Gulf Coast
Associated Press
Gulf States
Mississippi Delta
Alabama
Louisiana
Gulf of Mexico
Jackson
Mississippi
Birmingham
Ruleville
Fannie Lou Hamer
Danny Griffith
Irondale
Tommy Joe Alexander
Gulf Coast States
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