9631690 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.straitstimes.com/world/forest-fires-in-bolivia-consume-vast-areaLA PAZ (AFP) - Forest fires this year have consumed more than 147,000 hectares in Bolivia's eastern Santa Cruz department, the regional government reported on Saturday (Aug 7). As in neighbouring Brazil, the fires have been aggravated by widespread deforestation aimed at expanding farming or pasture land.2021-08-07T23:41+0200straitstimesSG-439a90cf9105361919bc2184b132724320210807234100https://www.europesun.com/news/270621292/number-of-uncontrolled-fires-in-turkey-decline-from-12-to-5Ankara [Turkey], August 8 (ANI/Sputnik): Five wildfires are still being extinguished in southern Turkey including four in the resort area of Mugla, the chief of the Directorate of Communications said on Saturday, which makes the total number of fires smaller than yesterday.2021-08-07T22:56+0200europesun-6609ab0388093872817788f8b3af3abb20210807225600https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/08/07/poland-sends-firefighters-to-greece-turkey-and-germany-to-help-with-fires-and-floods/Poland has sent firefighters, police officers and equipment to Greece and Turkey to help tackle major forest fires, and to Germany to help it deal with the aftermath of recent flooding. In Greece, the worst heatwave in decades has caused dozens of wildfires, in which at least two people have died.2021-08-07T22:36+0200notesfrompoland-6ea59c6d3d84520bddc4cfdd5c326e6620210807223600https://www.rfi.fr/en/forest-fires-in-bolivia-consume-vast-area-officialLa Paz (AFP) Forest fires this year have consumed more than 147,000 hectares (360,000 acres) in Bolivia's eastern Santa Cruz department, the regional government reported Saturday. As in neighboring Brazil, the fires have been aggravated by widespread deforestation aimed at expanding farming or pasture land.2021-08-07T22:31+0200rfi-en-836c238ac30799d713221c475d57eebb20210807223100