3900 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.straitstimes.com/world/australia-faces-explosive-fire-risk-after-years-of-rain-reportSINGAPORE – The Australian authorities need to urgently prepare for the risk of major wildfires after three years of excessive rainfall triggered massive vegetation growth, creating “powder-keg” conditions for grass fires, a report said. Written by the Climate Council and the Emergency Leaders for....2023-02-23T03:30+0100straitstimesSG-b852b301450519cac47c15cc5ed881b520230223033000https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/5/2426Industrialization and rapid urbanization in almost every country adversely affect many of our environmental values, such as our core ecosystem, regional climate differences and global diversity. The difficulties we encounter as a result of the rapid change we experience cause us to encounter many problems in our daily lives.2023-02-22T12:34+0100mdpi-c01e83e2443179767259978d0b17f05920230222123400https://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/environment/fears-of-powder-keg-fire-season-spurred-by-years-of-la-nina/news-story/d73b13ba42cf02fc161db4c65eb95574?nk=a8605fbbe493e04e04edfbb5f7a339be-1677051896Residents have been warned of an increased risk of major grass fires during hot weather in NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia according to the new report by the Climate Council. The fire risk is particularly heightened across NSW, south western Queensland and large....2023-02-22T08:45+0100heraldsun-7e932f2ca7a75eef5a56a617fac6e53220230222084500https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/fears-of-powder-keg-fire-season-spurred-by-years-of-la-nina/news-story/d73b13ba42cf02fc161db4c65eb95574Residents have been warned of an increased risk of major grass fires during hot weather in NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia according to the new report by the Climate Council. The fire risk is particularly heightened across NSW, south western Queensland and large....2023-02-22T08:24+0100news_com_au-116313123fd955ad86b6683b979d3ade20230222082400