490420 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.naharnet.com:443/stories/en/299840-the-destructive-power-of-wildfires-from-europe-to-canada-to-hawaiiThe destructive power of wildfire has been a defining feature of a summer of climate extremes. Dozens of people on multiple continents have died. Blazes have reduced homes and businesses to rubble. Thick smoke has darkened skies and carried fine-particle pollution thousands of miles from its source.2023-08-24T12:10+0200naharnet-ar-b4c94d5ba9d670fa5afd15beb6787ed520230824121000https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2023/08/24/mil-evening-report-bushfires-focus-public-attention-on-climate-change-for-months-but-its-different-for-storms-and-floods/As the world warms and the climate changes, people are experiencing more frequent and intense extreme weather events. Just this year, heatwaves blasted southern Europe , the United States and China; wildfires lit up Greece, Canada and Our new research explores the connection between extreme weather....2023-08-24T09:49+0200foreignaffairs-nz-001f9353b56b31f8b3fd8931714e371020230824094900https://www.johansen.se/blog/2023/08/24/bushfires-focus-public-attention-on-climate-change-for-months-but-its-different-for-storms-and-floods/Date: 2023-08-24 07:30 Author: Christopher Crellin, PhD Student / FNRS Aspirant, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) Original article: https://theconversation.com/bushfires-focus-public-attention-on-climate-change-for-months-but-its-different-for-storms-and-floods-212096 As the world warms....2023-08-24T09:45+0200johansen-113549ff6e86fba50ed0576c99e163bd20230824094500https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1821102/from-europe-to-canada-to-hawaii-photos-capture-destructive-power-of-wildfiresIt’s a ghastly pattern that climate scientists around the world say has been worsened and fueled by human-caused global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions have greatly increased the chances of hot, dry weather that makes severe fires more likely. And while proper management can help — for instance,....2023-08-24T06:55+0200inquirer-6ec99a3352eacbd20410b025cd797d4e20230824065500