2600 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.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20220429-the-social-impact-of-disastersChristine Eriksen spent 13 years living and working in Australia before taking up her post at ETH Zurich in August 2020. “One of the reasons I decided to move to Switzerland was to escape the growing number of catastrophic bushfires,” she says. The “Black Summer” fires blazed across Australia....2022-04-29T23:09+0200homelandsecuritynewswire-ca91e7ed2c38b5dad02b266dcd4b945c20220429230900https://roma.corriere.it/notizie/cultura_e_spettacoli/22_aprile_29/world-press-photo-2022-15512a92-c718-11ec-9886-30033cb6ccfe.shtmlAbiti appesi a croci di legno lungo una strada. Per la prima volta a vincere il World Press Photo of the Year è una fotografia senza persone. Lo scatto a colori per il «New York Times», dal titolo Kamloops Residential School , è della canadese Amber Bracken (la quinta donna in 67 anni a ricevere il riconoscimento).2022-04-29T07:31+0200corriere-036364bdbcbb942a396c639ab6c4c53a20220429073100https://www.timberbiz.com.au/opinion-vicforests-active-forest-management-may-increase-forest-resilience-and-reduce-bushfire-risk/Recent scientific studies into the 2019–20 black summer fires show timber harvesting had little impact on the extent and severity of the fires. [i] The studies conclude the extent and severity of the 2019–2020 bushfires were a result of years of below average rainfall, extreme fire weather and topography.2022-04-29T03:33+0200timberbiz-b99b07932e2664286bfeeb99042862cb20220429033300https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/wildfire-alaska-april-burning-large-b2067844.htmlThe largest in April in Alaska in more than a quarter century has reached nearly 10,000 acres. The Alaska Division of Forestry is not currently taking any measures to fight the fire, which, on its current trajectory, is not threatening either the nearby town of Kewthluk or nearby Indigenous land.2022-04-28T22:17+0200independent-UK-59bae7d68dc1a550b6313d418705392620220428221700