2910 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/2022/11/30/mil-evening-report-many-forests-will-become-highly-flammable-for-at-least-30-extra-days-per-year-unless-we-cut-emissions-research-finds/– By Hamish Clarke, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne. Without strong climate action, forests on every continent will be highly flammable for at least 30 extra days per year by the end of the century – and this fire threat is far greater for some forests including the Amazon,....2022-11-29T20:25+0100foreignaffairs-nz-5aa2210a0833e0733c83d8c281e8192720221129202500https://www.nationaltribune.com.au/many-forests-will-become-highly-flammable-for-at-least-30-extra-days-per-year-unless-we-cut-emissions-research-finds/Our research in Nature Communications looked at 20 years of global satellite data to test the link between wildfires and “vapour pressure deficit” – a measure of the atmosphere’s power to suck moisture out of living and dead plants. It can also be thought of as how “thirsty” the air is.2022-11-29T20:16+0100nationaltribune-142b4005cf5b30c475e8dbd85b88400920221129201600https://www.nationaltribune.com.au/more-fires-as-our-air-gets-thirstier/Wildfire is an ancient, highly diverse and complex phenomenon, not least because of humanity’s own complex relationship with it. Luckily, there are some concepts we can use to simplify things and help us find a way to co-exist with fire. To evaluate how fire may be affected by changes in climate,....2022-11-29T20:08+0100nationaltribune-1736e64a2f2f99e132b616bc664cb6a420221129200800https://greenreport.it/news/clima/il-grande-diluvio-laustralia-verso-la-nuova-era-dei-disastri-innaturali/In Australia, dopo anni di siccità e mega-incendi devastanti, il 2022 sarà ricordato come l’anno del Great Deluge il Grande Diluvio, con piogge e inondazioni record che hanno colpito gran parte dell’Australia orientale, causando devastazioni mai viste per gli australiani e la loro economia.2022-11-29T09:07+0100greenreport-0ed9a47ed38deed98c2a4bc1f5e47e8f20221129090700