10100 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://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-1a50bda790d01c98cf8736540b71466820220817235600https://www.polandsun.com/news/272657103/climate-change-driving-unprecedented-forest-fire-lossWildfires are burning twice as much global tree cover as they were 20 years ago according to new data, with climate change a major culprit in the acceleration of fires. "This record-breaking loss was due in part to prolonged heatwaves that would have been practically impossible without human-induced....2022-08-17T22:38+0200polandsun-7e608f9a43cc01731b57bccffdf8502520220817223800https://www.europesun.com/news/272657103/climate-change-driving-unprecedented-forest-fire-lossWildfires are burning twice as much global tree cover as they were 20 years ago according to new data, with climate change a major culprit in the acceleration of fires. "This record-breaking loss was due in part to prolonged heatwaves that would have been practically impossible without human-induced....2022-08-17T21:21+0200europesun-7e608f9a43cc01731b57bccffdf8502520220817212100https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1191284/as-europes-forests-burn-why-are-wildfires-getting-worse/Several European nations such as Greece, Italy, France, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain have in recent months struggled to cope with raging wildfires – driven by deadly heatwaves and drought – which have displaced thousands of people. As well as stretching emergency services to breaking point and....2022-08-17T20:25+0200kathimerini-en-6a201ee46f6d006ae9b6582bf5880db720220817202500