181371 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.europesun.com/news/273926543/record-heat-warning-as-forest-fires-rage-in-spain-and-portugalMadrid (AFP) - Temperatures are expected to hit 44 degrees Celsuis in Spain and Portugal on Wednesday as the two countries boil under their third heatwave of the summer. With huge forest fires raging across southern Portugal for the fifth successive day, Spain's weather service warned that the....2023-08-09T21:09+0200europesun-b9ee73a114835941e7214f4d4a7d97be20230809210900https://www.interris.it/editoriale/incendi-devastano-mondo-non-dimentichiamo-emergenze-secondarie/. Ora le fiamme stanno bruciando in Sardegna . Ma non è solo l’Italia ad essere compita da questi eventi estremi : negli USA, in Canada, in Francia, in Spagna, in Algeria, in Tunisia e in Portogallo ampie aree sono devastate da fuochi incontrollabili (per una visione in tempo reale degli incendi più....2023-08-08T00:44+0200interris-baf03a182fd8a116d355bffb9eab7ad220230808004400https://www.france24.com/en/video/20230807-asia-typhoon-damage-china-grapples-with-huge-economic-damageVideo by: Yuka ROYER Floods, heatwaves and droughts... Extreme weather conditions have affected millions of people around the world this summer. In Asia, the typhoon season is underway and has already caused significant economic damage in countries like China. Yuka Royer, from FRANCE 24's business desk, tells us more.2023-08-07T17:11+0200france24-en-1cba1cb3bbf032d3ba02be3520ac811520230807171100https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2023-08-07-fires-in-portugal-and-spain--forest-fires-destroy-thousands-of-hectares-of-land.HymEXm7Ri2.htmlZoom Image. Proença-a-Nova in Portugal: fighting the fire. Photo: PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP. Several forest fires destroyed huge areas on the Iberian Peninsula over the weekend. More than a thousand firefighters fought a forest fire in central Portugal on Sunday, which has already claimed the lives of around 7000 hectares of land.2023-08-07T09:54+0200tellerreport-97cc415fb5e67e0d6161a8ef4cc64eed20230807095400