3220 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://aerialfiremag.com/2022/01/07/spotlight-on-south-america-aerial-firefighting-in-the-pantanal-wetlands/In 2021, Brazil has struggled through the most severe drought in nearly a century. The volume of rain was the lowest since 1930. Farmers throughout the country faced many challenges, and the “safrinha” (the second crop of the year) showed a significant drop in productivity.2022-01-07T23:08+0100aerialfiremag-37d01942c937d8c664d1c1dae21f816d20220107230800https://aerialfiremag.com/2022/01/07/ororatech-develops-the-first-global-wildfire-intelligence-service-using-satellites/The 2021 wildfire season on the West Coast of the United States was another season that pushed first responders and fire resources to their limit. High temperatures and dry vegetation fueled record-breaking fire spreads, causing damage to millions of acres in forests and communities.2022-01-07T23:08+0100aerialfiremag-6072e2ab037b0240e95501660940f76020220107230800https://phys.org/news/2022-01-wildfires-co-occurrence-kinds-air-pollution.htmlSatellite image of wildfire smoke from numerous large fires burning across California spreading across the western U.S. on August 21, 2020, which contributed to 46 million people being simultaneously exposed to high concentrations of multiple harmful air pollutants.2022-01-06T15:30+0100phys-ac20c647eb7f9eb58ed6bb13582214d420220106153000https://california18.com/snowfall-expected-after-devastating-colorado-forest-fires/2403052021/Hundreds of houses go up in flames, thousands of people have to leave their homes. In the US state of Colorado, forest fires are now to be followed by heavy snowfall. Heavy snowfall could bring relief to the area following the devastating forest fires in Colorado.2021-12-31T21:03+0100california18-a14e05889e2e2754b095f26b00b5aa0620211231210300