4980 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://www.businessgreen.com/news/4034843/ecosia-dedicate-green-search-revenues-wildfire-recoveryNot-for-profit search engine Ecosia has today announced it is to respond to the record-breaking wildfires hitting North America, Australia, and Brazil by dedicating all revenues from 27 July towards wildfire restoration projects. The carbon offset providing search engine uses the revenues generated....2021-07-22T14:08+0200businessgreen-1f110945a3944147454a0ca6112a5d1920210722140800https://scitechdaily.com/2-5-billion-trees-and-vines-killed-in-epicenter-of-major-amazon-droughts-and-fires/Drone flight over forests affected by the El Niño drought and those affected by drought and fire in 2015. Videos from 2017 in the study region. Credit: Yadvinder Malhi. In normal circumstances, because of high moisture levels, the Amazon rainforest does not burn. However, extreme drought makes the forest temporarily flammable.2021-07-22T13:32+0200scitechdaily-cdae8ac268ce213b24f02374aaf40dc820210722133200https://yubanet.com/enviro/epicenter-of-major-amazon-droughts-and-fires-saw-2-5-billion-trees-and-vines-killed/L-R: Amazonian forest that burned during the 2015 El Niño; Dr Erika Berenguer, in a recently burned Amazonian forest during the 2015 El Niño; forest fire during the 2015 El Niño. The stark findings, discovered by an international team of scientists working for more than eight years on a long-term....2021-07-21T01:47+0200yubanet-eeb378ae9c378139a65ad0506eb9d06220210721014700https://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-188785bbbf0d66c453b54a7a0de1000820210720145600