13110 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.thelocal.de/20230615/from-heat-waves-to-wildfire-is-germany-prepared-for-climate-extremes-this-summerHeat waves. According to the EEA, heat waves will become more frequent, more intense and more prolonged as a result of climate change. The summer of 2022 was already a "summer of heat waves,” the organisation wrote. In fact, last summer was the warmest ever recorded in Europe.2023-06-21T13:12+0200thelocal-de-f9c2260db15d2e4b7a0c7b99809740c420230621131200https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/56988/20230618/forest-fire-threat-increases-sweden-nordic-countries-amid-drought.htmForest fires and other types of wildfires worldwide have increased in recent years, based on recent incidents, including the ongoing Canadian megafires and last year's French wildfires during a European heat wave. As blaze sweeps through countless acres of forested and grass areas, natural wildlife....2023-06-18T12:24+0200newsnow-co-uk-9a76530ede8c9fdc6ac0a9f0dfffeceb20230618122400https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/56988/20230618/forest-fire-threat-increases-sweden-nordic-countries-amid-drought.htmForest fires and other types of wildfires worldwide have increased in recent years, based on recent incidents, including the ongoing Canadian megafires and last year's French wildfires during a European heat wave. As blaze sweeps through countless acres of forested and grass areas, natural wildlife....2023-06-18T12:20+0200natureworldnews-9a76530ede8c9fdc6ac0a9f0dfffeceb20230618122000https://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-3e8d7e887d3bbbab12efbdbf58be86cc20230616140700