187130GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Nearly 10 Million Acres of Land Are Burning in Siberiahttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/siberian-wildfires-are-larger-globes-total-blazes-year-combined-180978433/As of early spring, wildfires have been surging through the taiga forest in Siberia. The region hardest hit was the Republic of Sakha in northeastern Russia. Also known as Yakutia, the area had 250 fires burning across 2,210 miles of land on July 5. By mid-July, residents of Yakutsk, the capitol of....2021-08-16T14:12+0200smithsonianmag-6e3e544d8f68a05d08a86975deabc87420210816141200Wildfire threatens thousands of California homes as western U.S. contends with blazeshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/world/wildfire-threatens-homes-california-1.6141295?cmp=rssA ceramic statue is seen outside a house that burned along North Arm Road in Plumas County near Taylorsville, Calif., on Sunday. Thousands of northern California homes remain threatened by the largest wildfire in the United States. (Eugene Garcia/The Associated Press) Thousands of northern....2021-08-16T00:16+0200CBC-8ffea0b5fbfb865b2472b553f7ade20120210816001600What impacts can fires have on global warming?https://www.archyde.com/what-impacts-can-fires-have-on-global-warming/Taken over and over again, the slightly worn sentence of former President Jacques Chirac has never been so appropriate: yes, our house is on fire. Algeria, Turkey, Greece … Several countries are currently trapped by deadly large-scale fires. It is in this dramatic context that the IPCC published its....2021-08-15T04:19+0200archyde-b07cf146115ccff7fca1a4ee17df5db520210815041900US firefighters face ‘critical day’ as Dixie Fire threatens townshttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/15/us-firefighters-face-critical-day-as-dixie-fire-threatens-townsFirefighters in the western United States faced “another critical day” as thunderstorms pushed flames closer to two towns not far from where California’s Dixie Fire last week. The thunderstorms, which began on Friday, did not produce much rain but whipped up wind and created lightning strikes,....2021-08-15T03:02+0200aljazeera-en-793a608b1bdfcb0ae827b28a788616b420210815030200