160130 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.mycentraloregon.com/2021/08/12/siberian-wildfires-now-bigger-than-all-other-fires-in-world-combined/Yelantsevv/iStock. (YAKUTSK, Russia) — Gigantic wildfires are burning across Siberia on a record scale that is larger than all the fires raging this summer around the world combined. The massive blazes in Russia are fueled in part by extreme heat waves and record droughts that scientists are blaming on warmer temperatures linked to climate change.2021-08-12T21:26+0200mycentraloregon-82399ec9a583aee282521d93c656d78920210812212600https://abcnews.go.com/International/siberian-wildfires-now-bigger-fires-world-combined/story?id=79422602The worst hit region is Yakutia, a vast semi-autonomous republic around 3,000 miles east of Moscow that in winter is one of the coldest inhabited places on Earth. The fires have been burning since late spring in Yakutia and are already among the largest ever recorded. The region is enduring a historic drought that is feeding the fires.2021-08-12T20:55+0200ABCnews-c75aa0a0c0044f1bbc59faa33e4e2c3820210812205500http://apanews.net/en/news/morocco-offers-to-help-algeria-fight-forest-firesMorocco said it was ready to help Algeria in fighting against the deadly fires that have been laying waste to the north of the country for several days, especially in the Kabylie region. “Two Canadairs have been mobilized to participate in this operation, pending agreement with the Algerian....2021-08-12T19:30+0200apanews-en-1e742f3e547be89f122f669421624c1020210812193000https://english.almayadeen.net/news/environment/1501355/the-american-heatwaves-unforeseen-lossesAccording to climate specialists, such a severe heatwave would have been almost impossible to achieve had it not been for the effect of human-caused climate change. California's wildfires. Hundreds of additional deaths were reported in the northern United States this summer during record heatwaves,....2021-08-12T12:50+0200almayadeen-en-8b1434e2fa8e7618f80a8d7bf97461a820210812125000