1300 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.miragenews.com/uh-study-greenhouse-gas-emission-impact-from-725399/Global forest fires in 2019 and 2020, such as the wildfires in Australia and California, and the deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia, accounted for between 10% and 15% of global GHG emissions. In Brazil, a total of 11,088 km 2 of forest were destroyed from August 2019 to July 2020.2022-02-15T22:06+0100miragenews-ba3ab2c72ca2c6a88d484273c3f92ff020220215220600https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2022-news-articles/february-2022/02152022-deforestation-peatland-fires.phpDeforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020. (Photo courtesy: PARALAXIS/Shutterstock) Global forest fires in 2019 and 2020, such as the wildfires in Australia and California, and the....2022-02-15T21:56+0100uh-edu-3f337d588431b18ba5ffd72eac05e4bf20220215215600https://cleantechnica.com/2022/02/14/extreme-e-announces-it-has-the-lowest-carbon-footprint-in-international-motorsports/carbon footprint by investing in environmental certificates for a wind farm in Patagonia, Argentina. Known as being one of the windiest regions of the world, each year 300 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of clean renewable electricity is supplied to the grid and 190,000 tons of GHG emissions are prevented from entering the atmosphere.2022-02-14T18:19+0100cleantechnica-8bc85d1321a8a6caa2fc1abf5b2400e020220214181900https://www.aa.com.tr/en/environment/environmental-disasters-across-globe-in-january-2022/2501344ANKARA A range of environmental disasters hit the world in the first month of 2022, including heavy rains and floods in Brazil, Iran and Madagascar; heavy snowfall in Turkiye, Pakistan and the US; wildfires in Spain and Argentina as well as volcanic eruptions in Ecuador's Wolf volcano and Pacific nation of Tonga.2022-02-13T11:02+0100aa-en-8d9cf46c9533a33b118d1d881d5e570420220213110200