6300GDACS 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 86% of Canadians live in areas where air pollution exceeds WHO guidelines: researchers Healthhttps://globalnews.ca/news/8250831/canada-air-pollution-guidelines/The majority of Canadians live in parts of the country where air pollution exceeds new guidelines set by the World Health Organization, and this could damage their health, researchers say. According to researchers at CANUE – the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium – around 86 per....2021-10-08T23:49+0200cknw-3a84bbb0323b10823ab74ec92dd0464120211008234900Siberia’s 2021 fires were stronger than the fires in Greece, Turkey, Italy, the United States, and Canada combinedhttps://www.climatescorecard.org/2021/10/siberias-2021-fires-were-stronger-than-the-fires-in-greece-turkey-italy-the-united-states-and-canada-combined/This Post was submitted by Climate Scorecard Russia Country Manager Michael Oshchepkov. Throughout the past year, the impact of climate change has increasingly become evident by a series of extreme weather events around the world—Russia is no exception.2021-10-08T19:18+0200climatescorecard-3c9cc5b4d6bed43a28fd48fc940b65d520211008191800Russia's Wildfires Dwarfed All Other Fires Across the World in 2021https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yxx3/russias-wildfires-dwarfed-all-other-fires-across-the-world-in-2021Media coverage of the 2021 fire season has focused largely on infernos in Europe and the United States, including the record Dixie fire in California. But the wildfires in Russia this summer have been on an entirely different scale, releasing an estimated 970 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide....2021-10-08T13:57+0200vice-com-uk-0238b8579380ea5e297c1dce0d04ee2620211008135700Air quality statement issued for Calgary as wildfire smoke blankets skyhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/wildfire-smoke-calgary-alberta-air-quality-1.6202566?cmp=rssA special air quality statement has been issued for Calgary and surrounding areas on Wednesday due to forest fires burning near Hudson Bay, Sask. The wildfire in Saskatchewan has been the primary source of surface level smoke in Alberta over the past few days and had prompted a special air quality....2021-10-07T03:04+0200CBC-2714e1d219ed31d688daba76c74c0cb020211007030400