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://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58159451Recent heatwaves and wildfires around the world have caused alarm - with warnings that parts of Europe and North America could be experiencing the worst fire season ever. Dr Susan Prichard, from the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington, says: "We now have the....2021-08-11T01:37+0200bbc-685e5741ad535ac060afb3ddea476e9b20210811013700https://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.am.com.mx/noticias/Falla-de-San-Andres-cuando-sera-el-megaterremoto-20210731-0047.html¿Cuándo será megaterremoto ocasionado por la falla de San Andrés? (Foto: Especial). Estados Unidos. - Los sismos registrados en Alaska y Perú , han recordado a los especialistas sobre un pronosticado megaterremoto en California ocasionado por la falla de San Andrés.2021-08-01T04:15+0200am-c84bee2f7e73ae5ce5ef4cf6b7c4971420210801041500https://forestsnews.cifor.org/author/davidhenry/13 Jul 2021 Landscape sustainability in Indonesia depends on good governance, study finds Integrated approaches to land use aim to unite conflicting interests of stakeholders. - 27 Apr 2021 Wildfires in Siberia are predictable through wind speed trends, analysis shows Boreal region stores large amounts of carbon and methane.2021-07-13T06:21+0200forestsnews-3b6ea80c2191fcfe8c8795160e5724d320210713062100