97560GDACS EMM News Feed 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 How on Earth did we start using “once in a blue moon”?https://www.zmescience.com/science/blue-moon-idiom-origin-53234/Am image of the moon captured through a blue filter. Image credits / Flickr. We’ve all heard about it, but the meaning of the ‘once in a blue moon’ idiom is more elusive than you may think — so much so that researchers are still debating it to this day.2023-02-27T19:45+0100zmescience-52afb1a8b9f1bb7d4100724c45a8687220230227194500The fires have affected 440 980 hectares and destroyed 1 987 homes. Feb. 20, 2023.https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-Maintains-Forest-Fire-Emergency-20230220-0018.htmlOn Monday, Interior Undersecretary Manuel Monsalve said in an update on the situation that of the 260 active forest fire outbreaks, 77 are currently being fought in the south-central part of the country. RELATED: Although the emergency continues, mainly in the regions of Biobío, Ñuble and La....2023-02-21T05:31+0100telesurenglish-03d9733a5fb2800078425ee35ac077a220230221053100Emergency for forest fires continues in center-south of Chilehttps://www.plenglish.com/news/2023/02/20/emergency-for-forest-fires-continues-in-center-south-of-chile/Santiago de Chile, Feb 20 (Prensa Latina) Firefighters from several countries continue battling against forest fires in the center-south of Chile, mainly in the regions of Biobio, Ñuble, and Araucania, where there are still 260 active sources, 77 of which the firefighters are trying to put out.2023-02-20T15:56+0100plenglish-7391cec23e5acefe63af1a8a5c0bc9a020230220155600Smokey Bear might be used as license plate designhttps://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/ridin-with-smokey-infamous-bear-mascot-might-be-used-for-special-license-plates/FILE – This June 26, 2007, file photo shows a sign depicting U.S. Forest mascot Smokey Bear on a fire danger sign in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., as smoke Read More FILE – This June 26, 2007, file photo shows a sign depicting U.S. Forest mascot Smokey Bear on a fire danger sign in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.2023-02-17T23:23+0100krqe-cf0762703f0459840aa1cef244f7652420230217232300