7300 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.greenpeace.org/international/story/51742/a-year-of-record-breaking-extreme-weather/I heard about it but ignored it. I saw it coming but just ignored it. I saw that it was happening in the Poles. But no one lives there, so I wasn’t bothered. I heard that it’s happening on some remote island, but it’s so far away. But now, suddenly, it’s hitting too close to home.2021-12-17T07:38+0100greenpeace-a78508a4b4fb916cbb0b747c3d06a66d20211217073800https://www.nationaltribune.com.au/year-of-record-breaking-extreme-weather/I heard about it but ignored it. I saw it coming but just ignored it. I saw that it was happening in the Poles. But no one lives there, so I wasn’t bothered. I heard that it’s happening on some remote island, but it’s so far away. But now, suddenly, it’s hitting too close to home.2021-12-17T07:21+0100nationaltribune-6e56057166480f76ab961c812807b20120211217072100https://www.timberbiz.com.au/mathematical-model-to-predict-eucalypt-forest-fires/CSIRO and the NSW Rural Fire Service have released Australia’s most advanced model for predicting the speed and behaviour of eucalypt forest fires. The model will be rolled out this summer to help predict and suppress bushfires from fire control rooms. Source: Timberbiz.2021-12-15T00:59+0100timberbiz-82f3deec3bced9ede0169b5fa072399520211215005900https://www.azocleantech.com/news.aspx?newsID=30823Supervisor, Fire Behaviour Analysis, David Field, and Fire Behaviour Training Coordinator, Geoff Goldrick (Rear), Running Bushfire Models at the Nsw Rfs Headquarters, Sydney Olympic Park. Image Credit: Nsw Rfs. Eucalypts make up more than 70 per cent of Australia’s forests and some of Australia’s....2021-12-14T10:18+0100azocleantech-6ba7e59dd743a09511ad6bbbd0650a2020211214101800