3500GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Forest fires are getting worse, 20 years of data confirmhttps://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/forest-fires-are-getting-worse-according-to-new-20-year-analysis/Fires are now causing 3 million more hectares (741,3160 acres) of tree cover loss per year than they did in 2001, according to a newly released Global Forest Watch analysis which examined fires that burn all or most of a forest’s living overstory trees.2022-08-17T23:56+0200mongabay-1a50bda790d01c98cf8736540b71466820220817235600Forest fires destroyed nearly 23 million acres of land in 2021, and it's expected to get worse, experts sayhttps://www.mycentraloregon.com/2022/08/17/forest-fires-destroyed-nearly-23-million-acres-of-land-in-2021-and-its-expected-to-get-worse-experts-say/Lucas Ninno/Getty Images. (NEW YORK) — The planet continues to experience a massive loss in forest land as the world warms and allows severe wildfires to run rampant in regions spanning the globe. Overall, forest fires are getting worse worldwide, according to a new report released Wednesday by....2022-08-17T19:43+0200mycentraloregon-76c44e3178df2c44bf622b90eea9de0220220817194300Desert Regions May Be Best Predictors of Climate Change in Wetter Areas, Hebrew University Study Revealshttps://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/224078?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/224078When it comes to the world’s climate, in the past decade, planet Earth keeps sending us its summer siren’s call. According to NASA, nineteen of the hottest years have occurred since 2000, with 2016 and 2020 tied for the hottest on record. This summer is already making worldwide headlines, with England scorching beyond 40 degrees Celsius.2022-08-16T15:03+0200alphagalileo-3ad7c02055d74502fad58696435a546c20220816150300Amazon deforestation on pace to roughly match last year’s rate of losshttps://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/amazon-deforestation-on-pace-for-near-record-year/Deforestation in Earth’s largest rainforest is on track to rival last year’s 15-year-high according to data released today by the Brazilian government. INPE, Brazil’s national space research institute, today published figures from its DETER deforestation alert system, which tracks forest clearing on a near-real time basis.2022-08-12T15:52+0200mongabay-cc82775309aa3de1fde4a00a067aa90020220812155200