963500 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.efe.com/efe/english/portada/spanish-land-lost-to-wildfires-nears-40-of-european-total-this-year/50000260-4857916In the teeth of a hot and dry summer, wildfires in Spain this season have scorched an area that accounts for around 38.5% of the total burned by forest fires in the European region monitored by Copernicus satellite imagery. The European Forest Fire Information System, which collects information on....2022-07-27T15:24+0200efe-633204451b969bcc9721ced168cd8f4620220727152400https://www.thehindu.com/podcast/whats-behind-europes-hellish-summer-in-focus-podcast/article65685272.eceEurope is reeling under a severe heat wave, with temperatures soaring past the 40-degree mark in many parts of the continent. One major side-effect has been a sharp spike in incidents of wildfires. Countries such as France, Spain, Portugal and Greece have reported hundreds of fires.2022-07-26T13:14+0200thehindu-bb8a38a1a856ac53136dca50fb19127820220726131400https://zon.it/leuropa-brucia-responsabili-le-temperature-torride/L’Europa brucia e la causa è le temperature torride e la mancanza di piogge che hanno caratterizzato questo 2022. Interi ettari di bosco andati in fiamme tra Italia Ungheria, Romania, Bulgheria, Francia e Spagna da inizio anni. Ma vediamo nel dettaglio il report dei dati.2022-07-26T09:17+0200247libero-1849d4271cb2a291833ad0f6bc7c9aca20220726091700https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/how-climate-crisis-is-driving-heatwaves-and-wildfires-1.89516334This year, heatwaves have broken their earlier record in many continents. Last week, an extreme heatwave created havoc in most of the Western parts of Europe. Several countries declared a state of emergency; intense heat caused deadly wildfires, melted roads, and runways, and triggered widespread power outages.2022-07-26T07:53+0200gulfnews-db8cee0a140896e10b29bd65d84d39fb20220726075300