4700 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.dw.com/en/how-do-we-fight-wildfires-as-the-planet-heats-up/a-62725149Fighting fire with fire. Controlled or "prescribed" burning of forest vegetation, most often in the cooler months, helps lessen wildfire hazards in the summer by reducing the amount of kindling available to fuel fires. In fire-prone nations like the United States, Australia, Portugal, Spain, Canada,....2022-08-05T17:41+0200deutschewelle-en-5ee9f961943a9cd080bde6575e83c36f20220805174100https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2022-08-03-canada--evacuations-due-to-forest-fires-in-british-columbia.SyoVIYDa5.htmlIn British Columbia, western Canada, 80 fires are active right now. One of them threatens a ski resort. And hundreds of residents have been ordered to leave their homes. Canada: evacuations due to forest fires in British Columbia. A forest fire near the village of Lytton in British Columbia, Canada, July 25, 2022.2022-08-03T07:23+0200tellerreport-75e2fc0d7db11cbf3d9c4a811e32ab3420220803072300https://www.tellerreport.com/tech/2022-08-02-technology-against-forest-fires--when-the-fire-brigade-comes-down-from-the-sky.HyXBPMsIpc.htmlFrench President Macron recently called for more fire-fighting aircraft for the European Union in view of the forest fire horror reports from the Atlantic coast, but also because of the fires in the Mediterranean. But that's easier said than done. Because there is not much choice of such special aircraft.2022-08-02T15:11+0200tellerreport-998291c937c9584c2caa29aec188f1c520220802151100https://www.fanpage.it/innovazione/scienze/le-api-stanno-morendo-di-fame-per-la-siccita-lentomologo-e-apicoltore-paolo-fontana-spiega-perche/La situazione è parecchio critica. La siccità crea diversi problemi alle api. In primo luogo fa finire il flusso di nettare e polline dai fiori e quindi le api non immagazzinano più cibo. Questa però è una cosa abbastanza normale a luglio. A luglio le api vanno in sofferenza, diciamo, perché in Nord....2022-07-27T09:19+0200fanpage-1aae60c38000890fd9982c71539305a720220727091900