Explain how extremes of pH limit growth. Majority of organisms live or grow in habitats between pH 6 and 8 obligate acidophiles: Euglena mutabilis-alga that grows between 0 and 1.0 pH Thermoplasma-archae that lives in hot coal piles at a pH of 1 to 2, and would lyse if exposed to pH 7.
Most of the current California wildfires are in the north, including a large one in Mendocino County and several others in the Sierra Nevada, the north coast and the San Joaquin Valley.
(Published Saturday, June 4, 2016) A brush fire that sparked Saturday in unincorporated Temecula, California, has grown to 139 acres overnight, sending heavy smoke into the air near Interstate 15 in San Diego's North County, Cal Fire officials said Sunday.