108160 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://whatsnew2day.com/can-fire-smoke-cause-lung-cancer/Q: How does wildfire smoke affect lung cancer risk? And how does this compare to things like secondhand cigarette smoke? When smoke from wildfires in the summer of 2020 turned the sky of the San Francisco Bay Area red, Dr. Kari Nadeau, a physician and scientist at Stanford University, to the people who were most vulnerable.2022-08-09T17:41+0200whatsnew2day-91d41b16f105a77a50b991fca9df4e3f20220809174100https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/well/live/fire-smoke-lung-cancer.htmlQ: How does wildfire smoke affect the risk of lung cancer? And how does this compare to things like secondhand cigarette smoke? When wildfire smoke turned the skies of the San Francisco Bay Area red in the summer of 2020, Dr. Kari Nadeau, a physician and scientist at Stanford University, thought about the people who were most vulnerable.2022-08-09T15:43+0200nytimes-71c133f7e309ca75a36a5ac230f6f37420220809154300https://www.dw.com/en/how-do-we-fight-fire-as-temperatures-rise/a-62725149Fire has burnt through forests for hundreds of millions of years, but now unprecedented wildfires are burning hotter and longer partly due to climate change. Declining rainfall and longer droughts are making forests so dry that localized lightening can spark a small fire that transforms into a mega-blaze before firefighters can limit the damage.2022-08-08T11:17+0200deutschewelle-en-d882b9a4af6ec8482ae04582d8520b4720220808111700https://www.vikendi.net/2022/08/08/several-dead-after-lightning-strikes-in-front-of-white-house/Natural disasters are currently occurring across the board in the United States: while the east coast is hit particularly hard by hurricanes, floods and severe thunderstorms, forest fires and heat waves are spreading for kilometers on the west coast. The current place of residence of US President....2022-08-08T07:58+0200vikendi-9ab0de0d00aeaf5825a5b30a38539c5720220808075800