28450GDACS EMM News Feed Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material Sowing fear, burning crops: The latest regime offensive terrorizes farmers in northwest Syriahttps://syriadirect.org/sowing-fear-burning-crops-the-latest-regime-offensive-terrorizes-farmers-in-northwest-syria/AMMAN — Over the past two weeks, pro-Assad forces have bombed over a dozen locations in the southern countryside of Idlib province, amid deafening silence from the international community. On June 10, eleven people were killed, including a child, by artillery shelling against the town of Ibileen.Wed, 16 Jun 2021 23:50:00 +0200syriadirect-abf3eb8c1d993d8c4bb8e1c001e0690220210616235000What you need to know about the heatwave and drought scorching the western US For many states, summer is off to a historically hot and dry start.https://www.popsci.com/environment/heat-wave-scorches-the-west/Across the western half of the United States, heat records are being broken by the dozen. On June 10, a new report showed that four western states—California, Oregon, Utah, and Nevada—are . That’s up from around 75 percent a week ago . This drought is likely the most extreme and widespread event to....Wed, 16 Jun 2021 23:41:00 +0200popsci-03aa937873b722735b3624a26abbe85d20210616234100New models predict fewer lightning-caused ignitions but bigger wildfires by mid centuryhttps://www.miragenews.com/new-models-predict-fewer-lightning-caused-579139/Human-caused wildfire ignitions in Central Oregon are expected to remain steady over the next four decades and lightning-caused ignitions are expected to decline, but the average size of a blaze from either cause is expected to rise, Oregon State University modeling suggests.Wed, 16 Jun 2021 23:02:00 +0200miragenews-65f1d4963750104d88bda1be8373a8ae20210616230200New models predict fewer lightning-caused ignitions but bigger wildfires by mid centuryhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/osu-nmp061621.phpCredit: Photo by Andrew Meigs. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Human-caused wildfire ignitions in Central Oregon are expected to remain steady over the next four decades and lightning-caused ignitions are expected to decline, but the average size of a blaze from either cause is expected to rise, Oregon State University modeling suggests.Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:47:00 +0200eurekalert-466419d1206d8db12ca7c9be22863d6d20210616224700