221130 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-c75aa0a0c0044f1bbc59faa33e4e2c3820210812205500https://www.ansa.it/canale_ambiente/notizie/clima/2021/08/12/ener2crowd-per-incendi-in-italia-71-emissioni-nel-2021-2_3627b469-ea22-4495-90ef-5ee6304895dc.html(ANSA) - ROMA, 12 AGO - "Il danno ambientale diretto legato all'aumento della CO2 causato dagli incendi è stimabile in circa 154 miliardi di euro, mentre gli investimenti necessari per compensare queste emissioni vanno dai 123 miliardi di euro necessari a finanziare progetti green ai 246 miliardi di....2021-08-12T18:45+0200ansa-5cd34a2b56eb0395d6047400d94b96b320210812184500https://www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/news/british-columbians-most-worried-about-climate-change-nationally-poll/After sweltering heat waves melted records and as wildfires continue to displace residents across the province, a recent poll suggests British Columbians are the most concerned about climate change in Canada. An Abacus Data poll that surveyed 1,500 Canadian adults in mid July explored what impact,....2021-08-12T17:59+0200crestonvalleyadvance-8935d9b217e8a70b1e05d768b170c19220210812175900