6130 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.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/5/3026Around a third of the world’s surface area is covered with forests. This is about 45 billion hectares of land. We are losing an additional 3 million hectares of forest cover each year than we did in 2001. Hence, researchers worldwide have been working on the identification and prevention of forest fires more aggressively.2023-02-27T05:02+0100mdpi-4c17e2689155806718f825d52787a93120230227050200https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-02-25/China-tests-all-AG600M-amphibious-aircraft-prototypes-1hInzOhlOV2/index.htmlAll four prototypes of China's AG600M aircraft, a full-configuration firefighting model belonging to the AG600 large amphibious aircraft family, have kicked off test missions, the aircraft developer announced Saturday. The fourth AG600M firefighting aircraft prototype successfully completed its....2023-02-25T14:34+0100cgtn-368ec3dbd71d0ee23df5b25d3a9c218d20230225143400https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202302/1286205.shtmlAG600M Photo: Gao Han The fourth AG600M airplane, which is of the firefighting variant in China's indigenously developed AG600 large amphibious aircraft family, has successfully conducted a flight test in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province, the Global Times learned from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) on Saturday.2023-02-25T13:47+0100globaltimes-1dd2614e27c540755b0019763853951c20230225134700https://english.news.cn/20230225/507c2b26dd71400e81e4d77a6a7e2164/c.htmlAG600M, an amphibious firefighting aircraft codenamed "Kunlong," conducts a water-dropping demonstration at the 14th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, Nov. 11, 2022. (Xinhua/Hong Zehua) BEIJING, Feb.2023-02-25T13:39+0100xinhuanet-english-7ba50189d1bb2d2158e95ce59eaf477f20230225133900