5280 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.trtworld.com/magazine/how-to-bring-forests-back-to-life-after-wildfires-48919A viral photo of a red pine cone covered in grey ash from the outside but revealing its inner colour after having cracked open from the heat is perhaps the perfect visual metaphor summarising the state of Turkey’s forests in the Mediterranean and Aegean.2021-08-04T16:04+0200trtworld-84d473da85052843cd7cba698615ec4120210804160400https://updates.panda.org/turkeys-destructive-wildfiresby Diana Del Olmo Campos. Turkey is being ravaged by one of the most devastating wildfires the country has seen. The word Mediterranean usually conjures up images of idyllic waters and lush landscapes thriving with wildlife and fauna. But the reality we are seeing across our screens and papers today tells a different story.2021-08-04T11:42+0200wwf-959e3838e5c16f0c5d04888c5b69324020210804114200https://www.padovaoggi.it/green/parco-regionale-colli-euganei-cambiamenti-climatici-incendi-boschivi-3-agosto-2021.htmlCon l’arrivo dell’estate, il primo dei grandi pericoli che ogni anno corre il patrimonio boschivo è quello degli incendi. Un problema serio che va sempre più spesso a braccetto con il cambiamento climatico e quindi con l’estendersi di periodi di siccità in cui è più facile l’innesco di una combustione.2021-08-03T19:14+0200padovaoggi-e90cfc379105989580cad4aad53c99b020210803191400https://www.9news.com.au/world/canada-wildfires-similar-conditions-to-australia-2019-bushfire-season-in-british-columbia-ontrario/ff6471bb-4726-4e30-952c-2785afc93bf8Hundreds of thousands of hectares have already been destroyed, and multiple communities are packed in evacuation centres, many not knowing if they will have homes to go back to as the threat shows no sign of subsiding if conditions don't ease. Dozens of Australian crews are now in the fire-zones,....2021-08-03T08:56+02009news-70b8533f4bcbbdf4d3707289d4b75fe420210803085600