6210 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://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2022/09/08/mil-osi-translation-climate-backlash-air-quality-threatened-by-heat-waves-and-forest-fires/MIL OSI Translation. Region: France and French Territories – Source: United Nations – in French 2. Headline: Climate backlash: air quality threatened by heat waves and forest fires. Air quality is threatened by the “climate backlash”, a United Nations agency said on Wednesday, drawing attention to the repercussions of forest fires.2022-09-07T17:30+0200foreignaffairs-nz-676e7a1b3b608e681acfd4772b37a82920220907173000https://vervetimes.com/smoke-from-the-black-summer-wildfires-in-australia-impacted-climate-high-altitude-winds-of-the-southern-hemisphere/The 2019/20 wildfires in Australia transported more smoke into the atmosphere than observed ever before anywhere in the world. In the so-called Black Summer, three times as many particles reached high air layers as in the previous record wildfires in Canada during summer 2017.2022-09-07T15:30+0200vervetimes-aad4fcfb4fcf2aabb8f24b3c300453be20220907153000https://phys.org/news/2022-09-black-summer-wildfires-australia-impacted.htmlFrom the subtropics to Antarctica, sunlight was dimmed even more than during the eruption of the volcano Pinatubo in 1991. The smoke probably also contributed to the record ozone hole over Antarctica in 2020, forming a vortex of 1,000 kilometers in diameter that passed over the Southern Hemisphere....2022-09-07T15:29+0200phys-e81646af8299fc98bff82e5caa11aa0620220907152900https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220906114216.htmRecord forest fires in Australia. Between September 2019 and January 2020, almost twice as much area burned as in any other extreme fire in Australia documented to date. The fires peaked between 29 December 2019 and 4 January 2020, which is why they are now referred in scientific literature as the....2022-09-07T14:22+0200sciencedaily-265bcbef01e8365b57b9c40bd88cb81920220907142200