10300 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.modernghana.com/news/1177734/climate-change-driving-unprecedented-forest-fire.htmlWildfires 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....2022-08-18T12:22+0200modernghana-2f8632dbbf9b140b2784313e7e09e7cd20220818122200https://geagency.it/incendi-boschivi-raddoppiati-in-20-anni-in-tutto-il-mondo/La distruzione delle foreste di tutto il mondo sta accelerando precipitosamente, soprattutto a causa degli incendi . Rispetto all’inizio del secolo è raddoppiata la superficie boschiva scomparsa. In confronto al 2001, gli incendi devastano oggi circa 3 milioni di ettari in più ogni anno , un’area equivalente a quella del Belgio.2022-08-18T08:09+0200geagency-66d82bc03b0746c491bda9e1f99443d920220818080900https://www.vietnambreakingnews.com/2022/08/climate-change-driving-unprecedented-forest-fire-loss/The research showed in unprecedented detail how wildfires have progressed over the past two decades, with the blazes claiming an estimated three more million hectares each year — an area the size of Belgium — compared with 2001. The study showed that the majority of tree cover loss is occurring in....2022-08-18T06:23+0200vietnambreakingnews-65a06380d0a2d5a239fa1f49bf1ac6e520220818062300https://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-1a50bda790d01c98cf8736540b71466820220817235600