13210 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.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-a-federal-fleet-of-water-bombers-could-help-control-forest-fires/Glenn McGillivray is managing director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction and adjunct professor of disaster and emergency management at York University. This year’s wildfire season is already the most severe one this century, with 449 fires burning across Canada as of June 12, and roughly half of them deemed out of control.2023-06-16T14:07+0200theglobeandmail-3e8d7e887d3bbbab12efbdbf58be86cc20230616140700https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/agriculture/061523-factbox-mapping-el-ninos-impact-on-crop-yields-global-food-trade-in-2023-24In the meantime, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology on June 6 stepped up its probability forecast to "El Nino Alert" from "El Nino Watch", indicating higher chances of an El Nino forming in late-2023. El Nino 's probability is measured by warming of the surface waters in equatorial Pacific Ocean....2023-06-16T09:29+0200cleanenergynews-ihsmarkit-a0b846c086c073d320775951aefccfc620230616092900https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/agriculture/061523-factbox-mapping-el-ninos-impact-on-crop-yields-global-food-trade-in-2023-24In the meantime, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology on June 6 stepped up its probability forecast to "El Nino Alert" from "El Nino Watch", indicating higher chances of an El Nino forming in late-2023. El Nino 's probability is measured by warming of the surface waters in equatorial Pacific Ocean....2023-06-16T08:43+0200spglobal-a0b846c086c073d320775951aefccfc620230616084300https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/rest-of-africa/south-africa-sends-hundreds-of-firefighters-to-canada-4269658Fire fighters from the environmental protection organisation, Working On Fire, sing and dance during a training session at the Kishugu Training Centre in Mbombela, South Africa on June 13, 2023. The fire fighters are part of 200 firefighters being sent to Alberta, Canada, to help with ongoing fire suppression efforts.2023-06-16T08:31+0200EastAfrican-1fecc5194f233c6541290535a210d55b20230616083100