3600GDACS 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 Brazil Records Worst Day For Amazon Fires In 15 Yearshttps://www.barrons.com/news/brazil-records-worst-day-for-amazon-fires-in-15-years-01661463607?refsec=topics_afp-newsThis photo taken on October 01, 2019 shows a fire near Itaituba, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon rainforest NELSON ALMEIDA. The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon hit a nearly 15-year high this week, according to official figures that provided the latest warning on the advancing destruction of the world's biggest rainforest.2022-08-25T23:40+0200barrons-555c33949374010859f13b37075caf4d20220825234000Forest fires burn twice as many trees as two decades ago, report findshttps://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/aug/24/forest-fires-burn-twice-as-many-trees-as-two-decad/Forest fires today are burning nearly twice as many trees as they did just two decades ago, according to a study from the University of Maryland’s Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory. The researchers found a typical forest fire season burns 7.4 million acres than in 2001.2022-08-24T22:50+0200spokesman-09c8d12f30707e35b3dbd514ac8235a220220824225000Forest 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-76c44e3178df2c44bf622b90eea9de0220220817194300