4400 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 http://www.tio.ch/dal-mondo/attualita/1523407/caldo-gradi-canada-ondata-record-temperature-picchiLe persone devono rendersi conto che le ondate di calore sono assassini e sono di gran lunga l’evento estremo più mortale. Non usa mezzi termini Friederike Otto, climatologa dell’Università di Cambridge, per descrive la straordinaria ondata di caldo che ha investito il Canada e il Nord Europa, nei....2021-07-18T17:19+0200tio-b42eea9a0e4362198cfcc8c989598b8620210718171900https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/punjab-witnessed-331-increase-in-lightning-strikes/articleshow/84512347.cmsBathinda: The number and frequency of lightning strikes is increasing globally with bolts from the blue killing more people every subsequent year, data shows. Between April 2020 and March 2021, 18.5 million lightning strikes were recorded in India, a 34% rise over 13.8 million strikes between April 2019 and March 2020.2021-07-18T05:31+0200timesofindia-11770b67d76b47cac94e8708fb6982f020210718053100https://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-0808b7619774d80525fb039ef68d6f5020210717010000https://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-b5c5d93a54b5ee04b678a831691922fa20210717002900