389130 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://missoulian.com/news/national/california-fire-threatens-homes-as-blazes-burn-across-west/article_1da48b03-513a-5b99-8203-33d968675300.htmlCalFire firefighters and California Correctional Center (CCC) inmates fight a spot fire on the side of Highway CA-36 between Chester and Westwood in Plumas County, Calif., Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. In California, the Dixie Fire that virtually destroyed the Sierra Nevada town of Greenville is less than a third surrounded.2021-08-15T22:27+0200missoulian-9dc8638627251daf891029d0b2866b2f20210815222700https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/columnists/trevor-hancock-if-we-lose-the-carbon-sinks-we-are-sunk-1.24351066An important new report from the ­Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states bluntly: “Climate change is widespread, rapid and intensifying.” ­Panmao Zhai, the co-chair of the working group that produced the report, said we need “strong, rapid, and sustained reductions in ­greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions, and reaching net zero CO2 emissions.2021-08-15T15:04+0200timescolonist-52c6d2025f1a5bf861a6fe94cf39088920210815150400https://buffalonews.com/news/national/thunderstorms-heat-fuel-wildfires-burning-across-west/article_93dc3208-d3d5-5346-b0d6-53e0a2ce69aa.htmlCalFire firefighters and California Correctional Center (CCC) inmates fight a spot fire on the side of Highway CA-36 between Chester and Westwood in Plumas County, Calif., Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. In California, the Dixie Fire that virtually destroyed the Sierra Nevada town of Greenville is less than a third surrounded.2021-08-15T07:37+0200buffalonews-e083d9d9122f4623b2b6e5321024526220210815073700https://wacotrib.com/news/national/thunderstorms-heat-fuel-wildfires-burning-across-west/article_50ac9633-fbff-5a43-b8e4-d735db11b2bc.htmlCalFire firefighters and California Correctional Center (CCC) inmates fight a spot fire on the side of Highway CA-36 between Chester and Westwood in Plumas County, Calif., Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. In California, the Dixie Fire that virtually destroyed the Sierra Nevada town of Greenville is less than a third surrounded.2021-08-15T07:20+0200wacotrib-e083d9d9122f4623b2b6e5321024526220210815072000