26241 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://finance-commerce.com/2023/07/house-republicans-propose-planting-a-trillion-trees-to-address-climate-change/WASHINGTON — As Speaker Kevin McCarthy visited a natural gas drilling site in northeast Ohio to promote House Republicans’ plan to sharply increase domestic production of energy from fossil fuels last month, the signs of rising global temperatures could not be ignored. Smoke from Canadian wildfires hung in the air.2023-07-18T23:29+0200finance-commerce-7c825084794e2d009e21fd3f5394ca2b20230718232900https://www.igi-global.com/newsroom/archive/toxic-wildfire-smoke-reaching-new/5804/In June 2023, smoke from over 430 active Canadian wildfires caused severe pollution in New York and Washington. Major cities were covered in smoke, affecting over 75 million people in the eastern United States. Flights were canceled, events were disrupted, and millions of people breathed the unhealthy air.2023-07-18T20:58+0200igi-global-39da738565a67c1666a749e8aa9d065c20230718205800https://dunyanews.tv/en/World/740647-Switzerland-fights-to-contain-forest-fire-near-Italy-border-as-winds-picBITSCH (Reuters) - Swiss firefighters on Tuesday were battling a forest fire that has forced more than 200 people to evacuate, and authorities warned winds were making the blaze difficult to contain. The fire broke out on Monday on the forested flank of a mountain in Bitsch in the Valais canton near the Italian border.2023-07-18T20:40+0200dunyanews-5c4379df6be3b942994754333eba958420230718204000https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/07/18/switzerland-fights-to-contain-forest-fire-near-italy-border-as-winds-pick-up/“In the last half hour, several fires flared up again,” he said. “The situation is not yet under control. The firefighting will continue until late into the night.” The blaze had eased earlier on Tuesday but began intensifying again due to the wind. The Swiss government said that starting on....2023-07-18T20:32+0200cyprus-mail-0ab19f052ccf4461f8f2b37609b975d920230718203200