64970GDACS 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 El Niño, the climate wild card, is back. Scientists are racing to predict its impact on Canadahttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-el-nino-canada-climate-change/But while these general trends are predictable, the intensity and duration of a given El Niño are not. “It really is the dominant source of variability from one year to the next,” said William Merryfield, a research scientist with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis in Victoria. Dr.2023-07-05T17:51+0200theglobeandmail-37518e7d2d2ed933c4bd133474f4fdf020230705175100Study shows number of people in US exposed to wildfires over past 20 years has doubledhttps://phys.org/news/2023-07-people-exposed-wildfires-years.htmlA team of civil engineers, climate scientists and bioresource engineers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and Canada has found that the number of people in the U.S. exposed to wildfires has doubled over the past 20 years. In their research, published in the journal Nature....2023-07-05T17:14+0200phys-94ee52dd1ed473ccfe3fb6b99224355120230705171400Ontario shoppers could run into higher prices and product shortages if B.C. port strike drags onhttps://www.thestar.com/business/2023/07/04/prolonged-bc-port-strike-could-start-to-strip-store-shelves.htmlOntario shoppers could run into product shortages and higher prices for everything from cars to construction materials if the major port workers strike in British Columbia drags on long enough, experts warn. after months of negotiations with the B.C. Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA) yielded no contract.2023-07-05T00:25+0200TorontoStar-27708575fac7eeedd6afa3b9fb2bfe4b20230705002500Rescue team arrives in Canada to battle wildfires therehttps://www.korea.net/NewsFocus/policies/view?articleId=234996The 151-member Korean Disaster Relief Team dispatched to help fight wildfires in Canada on July 2 pose for a group photo upon arrival at Ottawa International Airport. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) By Park Hye Ri The Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT) has arrived in Canada to combat wildfires there.2023-07-04T22:47+0200korea-net-en-53fdc1786d85d3e0de382f0bb77c257020230704224700