5660 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 https://indianf.com/18-5-million-lightning-strikes-in-india-a-year/A lightning strike killed at least 16 people and injured many more in Jaipur in Rajasthan in Northern India last week. Lightning hit them when they were taking selfies in the rain on top of a watch tower at the city’s 12th Century Amer Fort. Lightning strikes have taken a major toll in the country in the last ten years.2021-07-20T15:07+0200indianf-0d4a07e2ebe461dbedabb13231b28b2a20210720150700https://www.azocleantech.com/news.aspx?newsID=29841A major drought and forest fires in the Amazon rainforest killed billions of trees and plants and turned one of the world's largest carbon sinks into one of its biggest polluters. Triggered by the 2015-16 El Niño, extreme drought and associated mega-wildfires caused the death of around 2.2021-07-20T14:56+0200azocleantech-188785bbbf0d66c453b54a7a0de1000820210720145600https://greenreport.it/news/clima/amazzonia-la-grande-siccita-e-gli-incendi-hanno-ucciso-25-miliardi-di-alberi-e-piante/”Tracking the impacts of El Niño drought and fire in human-modified Amazonian forests”, pubblicato su Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNA S) da un folto team di scienziati europei e brasiliani, la grave siccità e gli incendi boschivi che hanno colpito....2021-07-20T12:22+0200greenreport-015c9d997ab51b0297c4e21e1c2a464b20210720122200https://in.news.yahoo.com/lightning-strikes-jump-34-experts-063316666.html20 Jul 2021: Lightning strikes jump by 34%; experts point to climate change. India saw 18.5 million lightning strikes between April 2020 and March 2021, marking a significant jump of 34% from the 13.8 million strikes that occurred over the corresponding period in the previous year.2021-07-20T09:13+0200news-yahoo-in-d0312a9d6df3572c8e9cd4212b560c0520210720091300