3100 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.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/09/23/world/brazil-amazon-floods-drought/SAO PAULO – In May and June, heavy rain pushed Brazil’s sprawling Negro River to its highest level in more than a century, causing flooding in Manaus, the Amazon rainforest’s largest city. At the same time, parts of southern and west-central Brazil in the Parana River basin — including Brazil’s....2021-09-23T13:30+0200japantimes-011cdeb2d362046a84886f9b3cf7b14820210923133000https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/study-shows-impacts-deforestation-and-forest-burning-amazon-biodiversityin Nature , co-authored by SFI External Professor Brian Enquist and others at the University of Arizona, provides the first quantitative assessment of how environmental policies on deforestation, along with forest fires and drought, have impacted the diversity of plants and animals in the Amazon.2021-09-22T00:49+0200santafe-8185092f1ba548ced185c9682f7ae1a620210922004900https://www.lavocedinewyork.com/onu/2021/09/21/bolsonaro-torna-allonu-con-i-fantasiosi-primati-del-brasile-su-ambiente-e-covid/, probabilmente perché non disponeva delle credenziali vaccinali per poter mangiare all’interno dei locali, è arrivato il turno di parlare anche per il presidente brasiliano Jair Messias Bolsonaro alla prima Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite in presenza dall’inizio dell’emergenza sanitaria.2021-09-21T19:25+0200lavocedinewyork-28452ac4386411c9bf2ae7bd033f22da20210921192500https://news.trust.org/item/20210921144214-xw4uf/As floods batter the north and dry weather parches the south, scientists warn there is more to come if Brazil does not tackle deforestation. * Shifting weather patterns have already hit power grid and farms. * Parts of Brazil are seeing the worst flooding in a century. * Tree loss in Brazil's Amazon rose 17% in first half of the year.2021-09-21T18:25+0200trust-98abd8a60bca3a709c101ae95d169d9d20210921182500