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Wildfires in North and South Carolina fueled by drought, wind and fallen trees from Hurricane Helene

The Call 25 Mar 2025
Three fires there have burned at least 9 square miles (23 square kilometers) ... The fires in Table Rock State Park and nearby Persimmon Ridge have burned a combined 2.3 square miles (5.9 square kilometers), the South Carolina Forestry Commission said.
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Wildfires in the Carolinas are fueled by drought, wind and fallen trees from Helene

Daily Press 25 Mar 2025
Three fires there have burned at least 9 square miles (23 square kilometers) ... The fires in Table Rock State Park and nearby Persimmon Ridge have burned a combined 2.3 square miles (5.9 square kilometers), the South Carolina Forestry Commission said.
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Wildfires in western NC prompts evacuation

The Lexington Dispatch 25 Mar 2025
Saturday for parts of Polk County ... There were three fires in Polk County, with one spanning 1.9 square miles and another spread over 2.8 square miles with no containment by Sunday afternoon ... .
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Wildfire continue to burn North and South Carolina, forcing people to flee

The Times of India 25 Mar 2025
... Carolina forest service reported three active wildfires in Polk county, with two major blazes spanning between 1.7 square miles (4.4 square kilometers) and 1.9 square miles (4.9 square kilometers).
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Greenland's Coastline Has Grown By 1,620 Kilometers In Two Decades – And Not For A Good Reason

IFL Science 25 Mar 2025
Along with revealing more of the mainland, the glacial retreat also exposed 35 new islands larger than 0.5 square kilometers (0.19 square miles) during the period 2000–2020.
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OPINION: Trump Administration Considers Sale of Public Lands for Housing Developments

Pagosa Daily Post 25 Mar 2025
In an interview with Bloomberg Law published Monday, the Trump administration announced it’s considering selling off 625 square miles of public land (400,000 acres) for housing development across the West.
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Gov. JB Pritzker delivers remarks during a press conference at the UI Health Mile Square ...

The Pantagraph 25 Mar 2025
Gov. JB Pritzker delivers remarks during a press conference at the UI Health Mile Square Health Center, Feb. 28, 2025, discussing the impact of planned cuts to Medicaid health coverage ... .
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Ukraine detains 'mole' for sharing troops locations for Russian missiles

Hindustan Times 25 Mar 2025
Also Read ... Within days, Ukrainian units had captured 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of territory, including the strategic border town of Sudzha, and taken hundreds of Russian prisoners of war ... Also Read ... (Inputs from AFP) ....
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What are the world’s safest and unsafest countries? US and UK landed on the wrong ...

New York Post 25 Mar 2025
The image above shows Soldeu, a town in Andorra, one of the smallest nations in the world, measuring just 181 square miles and with a population of just 82,638 people.
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California agency launches tool to give public notice before pesticides are used on farms

The Californian 25 Mar 2025
Visitors to the SprayDays website can search for scheduled applications anonymously using a map or enter any address to view applications planned within a one-square-mile area.
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142.6 billion trees counted by China using laser drones in massive eco-drive

Interesting Engineering 25 Mar 2025
Researchers have used laser-based mapping or LiDAR (light detection and ranging) and drones to map an area covering 540 square miles (1,400 square kilometers), and they have been collecting data with drones since 2015.  ... RECOMMENDED ARTICLES. .
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Desert Mountain Energy Corp. to Present at the Oil & Gas Virtual Investor Conference March 27th

Canoe 25 Mar 2025
Story continues below ... DATE ... TIME ... Most recently, the company has acquired the West Pecos Slope Abo Gas field which boasts 188 wells and more than 50 miles of surface collection lines across approximately 120 square miles of continuous mineral claims ... .
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Firefighters in Carolinas battle for control as high winds threaten to fan flames

Usatoday 25 Mar 2025
In North Carolina, firefighters from across the state have converged on rural Polk County to battle at least three blazes that have scorched over seven square miles, destroyed at least three homes and ...
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Exxon Valdez spill shaped history 36 years ago. What have we learned?

Usatoday 25 Mar 2025
... an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in 2010 killed 11 people and dumped 210 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, scattering oil slicks across an area of 57,000 square miles.
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Caught in the middle, this US oddity at the border is grappling with Trump’s trade war with Canada

The Vindicator 25 Mar 2025
Known as a geographic oddity since the boundary with Canada was drawn in 1846, this detached 5-square-mile community — called an exclave because it’s completely separated from mainland ...
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