11010 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.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02954-8Many regions of China are just emerging from a record-breaking heatwave that lasted for two months, and which was followed by one of the worst droughts in nearly 40 years. Researchers are now trying to understand the conditions that fuelled such extreme events, because many projections came up short.2022-09-21T20:06+0200nature-a142d1c1b535933653eeef5d36f84e9b20220921200600https://wingsenvironmental.com/chinas-extreme-weather-challenges-scientists-trying-to-study-it/Many regions of China are just emerging from a record-breaking heatwave that lasted for two months, and which was followed by one of the worst droughts in nearly 40 years. Researchers are now trying to understand the conditions that fueled such extreme events, because many projections came up short.2022-09-21T10:19+0200wingsenvironmental-1db899fc3231857266d5daff5eea755e20220921101900https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/how-close-is-the-amazon-tipping-point-forest-loss-in-the-east-changes-the-equation/Scientists warn that the Amazon is hurtling toward a tipping point , beyond which it would begin to transition from lush tropical forest into a dry, degraded savanna, unable to support the immense diversity of life that call the world’s largest rainforest home.2022-09-20T18:34+0200mongabay-91d07127d352278abec72671fe907ea520220920183400https://www.straitstimes.com/world/while-you-were-sleeping-5-stories-you-might-have-missed-sept-20-4Major quake hits Mexico on anniversary of deadly tremors. A powerful earthquake struck western Mexico on Monday, shaking buildings hundreds of miles away in Mexico City on the anniversary of two major tremors in 1985 and 2017, seismologists said. The national seismological agency reported the quake was of magnitude 7.2022-09-20T00:25+0200straitstimesSG-8767c5c2db8de3de31388eaf4f29d2dd20220920002500