2900 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://thesaxon.org/western-europe-fires-continue-as-mercury-climbs/2522/Desolation in Graveson, south of Avignon, France, following fires that destroyed thousands of hectares of forest. The heat wave in Western Europe continues to cause devastating wildfires and was expected to continue into the start of the week. Several temperature records could be broken in France and Great Britain.2022-07-17T23:16+0200thesaxon-1b3ede868fe3896b5cf6c5abb5ecefc120220717231600https://thesaxon.org/from-portugal-to-greece-the-authorities-fight-against-forest-fires/2506/In Gironde, in the south-west of France, nearly 10,500 hectares of forest have gone up in smoke since Tuesday. Several Western European countries continued to fight Sunday against devastating forest fires, the result of a long-lasting heat wave that could break several temperature records early next week.2022-07-17T19:22+0200thesaxon-6a8d6c363a6c4a85d8e15591b310abda20220717192200https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/supermoons-best-photos-of-the-week/The Buck Supermoon has been lighting up skies across the world, producing some wonderful images of the largest full Moon of the year. Meanwhile, much of Europe has been experiencing heatwaves, which has led to a string of wildfires in France. Here in the UK, we are bracing ourselves for potential record-breaking temperatures next week.2022-07-16T20:53+0200newsnow-co-uk-905509f92b5fb2a58ded16ad7bba55f320220716205300https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/wildfire-evacuations-mathias-colomb-cree-nation-pukatawagan-1.6521685?cmp=rssThe sky was orange over Pukatawagan on Thursday in this photo posted to the Thompson Professional Firefighters Association's Facebook page. (Thompson Professional Firefighters Association/Facebook) Thick smoke from a wildfire in northern Manitoba is preventing evacuations of nearby communities.2022-07-15T18:40+0200CBC-2f77349c5ca4fa55718a5d469dd439de20220715184000