8100 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.tellerreport.com/news/2023-07-07-record-forest-fires-in-canada-%E2%80%93-largest-area-ever-burned.Bk7t8EASKh.html2023-07-07T18:07:13.482Z. Highlights: Canada's wildfire season breaks all records. Over 8.8 million hectares have been burned down with at least three months of the season remaining. There are 639 active fires across Canada, 351 of which are out of control. More than 150,000 Canadians have been forced to leave their homes so far this fire season.2023-07-07T20:08+0200tellerreport-88ed0373d222e6a8c7979df04a764b0620230707200800https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/canada-only-halfway-through-record-breaking-wildfire-season-officials-1.6469687are expected to cause abnormally intense wildfires across Canada in July and into August, the federal government said Thursday. “Drought is a major contributing factor affecting parts of all provinces and territories and intensifying in some regions,” Michael Norton, director general of the Northern....2023-07-06T21:33+0200barrie-22ed2d701cd391f819d71ba9f48f144020230706213300https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/canada-only-halfway-through-record-breaking-wildfire-season-officials-1.6469687are expected to cause abnormally intense wildfires across Canada in July and into August, the federal government said Thursday. “Drought is a major contributing factor affecting parts of all provinces and territories and intensifying in some regions,” Michael Norton, director general of the Northern....2023-07-06T20:20+0200ctvnews-3ee441f589c718813d4c47efeaac387620230706202000https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/wildfire-season-is-10-times-greater-than-normal-and-will-continue-to-burn-for-months-officialsArticle content. “The latest projections indicate that fire activity could remain above normal through July and August across much of the country, from British Columbia to Quebec,” he warned. The actual number of hectares burned will only be known after the fact and the figures revealed are estimates, he said.2023-07-06T19:14+0200montrealgazette-31b8cf49bc7f9ccdb506c0d33da61fda20230706191400