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.thejakartapost.com/life/2021/08/08/forest-fires-in-bolivia-consume-vast-area-official.htmlForest 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.2021-08-08T12:19+0200JakartaPost-eb7de6dc7c93f20f6f644429b27549f020210808121900https://techcodex.com/forest-fires-in-bolivia-consume-vast-area-official/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.2021-08-08T12:17+0200techcodex-4c9274c04244819803291b491644d75920210808121700https://politiko.al/english/bota/bota-po-digjet-gazeta-gjermane-zjarret-e-egra-ne-muajt-e-veres-nuk-jane-bef-i441279Greece is burning, California has been battling wildfires for weeks, and more than 40 forest fires are burning in Germany as well: NASA offers a summary of all fires. And their service is currently more in demand than rare. According to the German daily Der Spiegel , on the 25th day after the "Dixie....2021-08-08T11:29+0200politiko-448cdda4aee69045e4cd251d4b42601320210808112900https://floridanewstimes.com/bolivian-forest-fires-consume-vast-areas-official/320361/This year’s forest fires consumed more than 147,000 hectares (360,000 acres) in eastern Santa Cruz, Bolivia, local governments reported on Saturday. Like neighboring Brazil, the fire is exacerbated by extensive deforestation aimed at expanding agricultural and pasture.2021-08-08T11:25+0200floridanewstimes-85a9038a5192ac5a3a03157c8bc00a1320210808112500