4200GDACS 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 Photos History's most destructive forest fires Sadly, forest fires have never been far from the headlines in the last few years. As the impact of climate change takes its toll and areas see record-breaking high temperatures and drought, violent blazes have flared up all over the world, from California to the Amazon rainforest.https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/historys-most-destructive-forest-fires/ss-AAMfgvFForest fires can start in any number of ways and this cause could be natural or human, or a little of both – in fact, controlled burns are actually sometimes used as a tool for forest management. In short, the fires currently in the media have a range of different root causes.2021-07-17T01:00+0200msn-uk-0808b7619774d80525fb039ef68d6f5020210717010000El cambio climático provoca devastadoras inundaciones en Alemania y Bélgicahttps://www.elespanol.com/ciencia/medio-ambiente/20210716/cambio-climatico-provoca-devastadoras-inundaciones-alemania-belgica/596941009_0.htmlHace unas semanas, Vancouver alcanzaba temperaturas típicas de zonas desérticas , cercanas a los 48ºC. El pasado enero, ciudades como Madrid sufrían una de las mayores nevadas de su historia, Filomena, que obligó a paralizar toda actividad durante unos días.2021-07-17T00:29+0200elespanol-b5c5d93a54b5ee04b678a831691922fa20210717002900Tsunami de arena roja en Australiahttps://www.vistaalmar.es/medio-ambiente/fenomenos-naturales/2955-tsunami-arena-roja-australia.htmlAsombrosas imágenes de una pared de polvo rojo que se eleva sobre el océano Una gigantesca tormenta de polvo ha amenazando con hundir pequeños barcos cuando continuaba el alocado clima en Australia. La ola del tsunami de arena se podía ver por millas de viaje cerca de la ciudad de Onslow, al norte de Perth.2021-07-12T15:33+0200vistaalmar-b959845c26db51de7a8bc53eef11c5bf20210712153300Wildfires spoil the plumage and sex life of these Australian birdshttps://www.explica.co/wildfires-spoil-the-plumage-and-sex-life-of-these-australian-birds.htmlThe red-backed maluros or black-headed (Malurus melanocephalus) are a species of bird endemic to the north and east coast of Australia that normally have a brown and monotonous plumage. But when mating season approaches, males shed their feathers to a color gamut red and black that makes them more....2021-07-11T08:38+0200explica-1235a9ca70196888fcda9c556d73ae9f20210711083800