400 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://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/more-than-250-major-fires-the-amazon-this-year-despite-burning-ban-in-brazil/There have been 267 major fires detected in the Amazon this year, burning more than 105,000 hectares (260,000 acres) — an area roughly the size of Los Angeles, California. More than 75% of these fires blazed in the Brazilian Amazon, in areas where trees have been cut to make way for agriculture,....2021-08-03T17:55+0200mongabay-a408f19b0ffab08934944fd9ddef72fe20210803175500https://www.greenstyle.it/storie/incendi-amazzoniaMai come nel 2019 si sono verificati così tanti eventi incendiari nella Foresta Amazzonica . Oltre 75.000 incendi hanno devastato il Polmone della Terra solo quest’anno, con un aumento dell’83% rispetto al 2018. Una distruzione tra le più gravi degli ultimi anni che rischia di contribuire in modo....2021-07-15T15:28+0200greenstyle-b440f77daf52acbad5306f305376c2fe20210715152800https://kelo.com/2021/07/08/brazil-drought-crisis-linked-to-global-climate-change-minister-says/By Jake Spring. BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s Mines and Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque said on Thursday the country’s current drought crisis is part of extreme dryness in many parts of the world, including the U.S. West Coast, and is linked to global climate change.2021-07-08T23:51+0200kelo-aa438a9a50fb57e1e432f7238841c3a620210708235100https://wsau.com/2021/07/08/brazil-drought-crisis-linked-to-global-climate-change-minister-says/By Jake Spring. BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s Mines and Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque said on Thursday the country’s current drought crisis is part of extreme dryness in many parts of the world, including the U.S. West Coast, and is linked to global climate change.2021-07-08T23:37+0200wsau-7f7462278fa2793f1904cd4a2414952c20210708233700