1400 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.thestkittsnevisobserver.com/drought-robs-amazon-communities-of-life-giving-river/Dubbed “the lungs of the planet”, the Amazon basin’s 6.9 million square kilometres (2.7m sq miles) of rainforest – land more than twice the size of India – has suffered rampant deforestation, which fuels climate change. Roughly 15% of that forest has been destroyed across Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,....2022-03-14T10:56+0100sunstkitts-195861b440452ac3e38e62e2f64bab0920220314105600https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/coimbatore/atr-boosts-manpower-to-fight-forest-fire-fast/articleshow/90191076.cmsCoimbatore: The forest department has deployed 64 temporary fire watchers and 69 anti-poaching watchers to prevent forest fire in Pollachi forest division in the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve (ATR). ATR officials said they were creating fire lines for a length of 250km in the four forest ranges of....2022-03-14T00:02+0100timesofindia-3bcc84d343df8bc32a9b3e14d5714d3e20220314000200https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/govt-weighs-proposal-to-ease-clearance-norm-for-oil-drilling-in-protected-forest-areas-101647108197332.htmlNew Delhi: The Union environment ministry is considering a proposal on whether extended reach drilling (ERD) in protected forest areas can be exempted from mandatory clearances under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980, according to people aware of the matter and official government documents seen by HT.2022-03-12T19:13+0100HindustanTimes-26af94fd4b5978fe215bc824d315982e20220312191300https://www.wionews.com/india-news/india-forest-fire-near-tamil-nadus-kodaikanal-causes-massive-damage-controlling-efforts-underway-461334A forest fire that is said to have started on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday is causing severe damage in the region near Tamil Nadu's popular hill station Kodaikanal. The blaze which is still raging has reduced vast tracts of forest land into charred remains, as evident from videos from the area.2022-03-11T14:12+0100wionews-c8b7c69e291ba9fdbac6bdec33f0e89120220311141200