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Wildfire in california ignited the dry brush and was being investigated as an arson, had blackened some 500 acres around picturesque Santa Barbara by nightfall, leaving behind smoldering, burned out husks where multimillion-dollar mansions once stood.

The pall of thick black smoke hanging over Santa Barbara made it difficult to tell how many of the large hillside homes had gone up in flames but believed at least 20 had been burned to the ground. Entire neighborhoods remained in jeopardy as more than 900 firefighters struggled to make headway against flames whipped by hot, dry Santa Ana winds through steep and sometimes inaccessible canyons.

The firefighters were hoping for a break from the weather on Thursday, but weather experts predicted that the Santa Ana winds, which blow in from the California desert, would persist at least another day.Santa Barbara County was asking for aid from fire crews across the state and said they expected some 100 engines and 400 firefighters, although other California communities were keeping a wary on their own dry hillsides. The blaze was difficult to fight because of the seaside community’s “extreme weather”and the temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, with winds gusting at up to 50 miles per hour.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency for Santa Barbara County, a move that frees up additional funds and equipment.Though the fire slowed as winds eased late on Wednesday night, officials worried that it was burning in the direction of downtown Santa Barbara and residents there were told they may need to evacuate overnight.

Sachin dedicates his century and award by donating 500$ for Tiger conservation in India. India’s master batsman Sachin Tendulkar continues his fantastic form in the test series against Newzealand. India made an emphatic win and created history by winning the first test in Newzealand since 33 years.

Sachin, the popular figure all over the world, respectable human both for his cricketing skills and personal attitude set the platform for India to win the first test at Hamilton. Sachin Tendulkar played an excellent sachin’s knock that enabled India to clinch the match comfortably in style.

Sachin Tendulkar  played a fantastic knock of 160 runs in the first innings that helped India to post a huge score of 520 runs on the board. India finally won the match by 10 wickets. Sachin was declared as Man of the Match. Sachin in post match presentation said that he would like to dedicate this century for Conservation of Tigers and also donated 500$ from his prize award towards Tiger Conservation in India.

I was really amazed to hear that the Master Batsman of India expressing his views to protect the Environment and Wild life. He actually emphasized the importance of Tiger Conservation by donating a part of his prize money and by dedicating his match winning century.

So i feel that the Indian Government in cooperation with all the State Governments must focus on the Conservation of Tigers by employing the necessary adequate steps there by to protect wild life.

Oil isn’t destroying habitats or wiping out ocean life. The ooze is a natural phenomena that’s been going on for many thousands of years. The wildlife have adapted and evolved and have no problem dealing with the oil.

Oil that finds its way to the surface from natural seeps gets broken down by bacteria and ends up as carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. So knowing the amount of fossil fuel that turns to carbon dioxide naturally is important for understanding how much humans may be changing the climate by burning oil and gas.

Using a technique they developed in the early 1990s to help explore for oil in the deep ocean, Earth Satellite Corporation scientists found that there are over 600 different areas where oil oozes from rocks underlying the Gulf of Mexico. The oil bubbles up from a cracks in ocean bottom sediments and spreads out with the wind to an to an area covering about 4 square miles.

A gallon of oil can spread over a square mile very quickly.” So what ends up on the surface is an incredibly thin slick, impossible to see with the human eye and harmless to marine animals.

When oil spreads out over water, surface tension causes it to act like a super-thin sheet of Saran Wrap, flattening down small waves on the ocean surface. To spot the oil slicks, EarthSat scientists use radar data from Canadian and European satellites. The oil slicks stand out in the radar image because they return less of the radar signal than the wavy surfaces.

To get an estimate of how much oil seeps into the Gulf each year, the researchers took into account the thickness of the oil-only a hundredth of a millimeter, the area of ocean surface covered by slicks, and how long the oil remains on the surface before it’s consumed by bacteria or churned up by waves. The number is twice the Exxon Valdez’s spill per year, and that’s a conservative estimate.

In the future, EarthSat hopes to refine this method using data from NASA’s new EO-1 satellite, set for launch in June 2000. A sensor aboard EO-1 may be able to tell gas from oil and better pinpoint the source of the slick.

Acid rain is rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic. It has harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals, and infrastructure. Acid rain is mostly caused by human emissions of sulfur and nitrogen compounds which react in the atmosphere to produce acids. In recent years, many governments have introduced laws to reduce these emissions.

Adverse effects may be indirectly related to acid rain, like the acid’s effects on soil or high concentration of gaseous precursors to acid rain. High altitude forests are especially vulnerable as they are often surrounded by clouds and fog which are more acidic than rain.

Plants can also be damaged by acid rain but the effect on food crops is minimized by the application of lime and fertilizers to replace lost nutrients. In cultivated areas, limestone may also be added to increase the ability of the soil to keep the pH stable, but this tactic is largely unusable in the case of wilderness lands. When calcium is leached from the needles of red spruce, these trees become less cold tolerant and exhibit winter injury and even death.

Scientists have suggested direct links to human health. Fine particles, a large fraction of which are formed from the same gases as acid rain, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. It has been shown to cause illness and premature deaths such as cancer and other diseases.

Particularly badly affected places around the globe include most of Europe particularly Scandinavia with many lakes with acidic water containing no life and many trees dead and many parts of the United States especially Newyork and South Western Canada. Other affected areas include the South Eastern coast of China and Taiwan.