333260GDACS 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 A ‘fire-breathing dragon of clouds’: These are Canada’s wildfire-induced super stormshttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-wildfire-storms-canada-dragon/More than a hundred times this year, the grey, billowing smoke hovering above one of Canada’s many forest fires has suddenly been sucked into a chimney of hot air, then exploded several kilometres into the sky. At the smoky column’s peak, a white, cauliflower-like cloud forms, blocking out the sun.2023-08-05T14:23+0200theglobeandmail-c2e0a731c739f52edbb6aa1162ed24f620230805142300The Mediterranean fires offer lessons — and warnings — for Europehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/04/mediterranean-fires-algeria-greece-tunisa/Responses differed in each country. Some relied on a domestic firefighting plane fleet; others called for help. Wealthier nations had more elaborate evacuation and response plans than their poorer counterparts in North Africa. For experts, though, it all pointed to a frightening new reality:....2023-08-04T17:42+0200WashingtonPost-90a03e7f15f1d39e186fe153c327a96720230804174200Wildfires in Canada double the annual carbon emissions recordhttps://www.ft.com/content/afaf57c2-cfc6-402f-bf69-a7382535c651Scientists observe abnormal intensity of blazes as temperatures rise faster in north of the planet2023-08-04T14:10+0000ft-afaf57c2-cfc6-402f-bf69-a7382535c65120230804161000Up, up, and away with PHILEAShttps://idw-online.de/de/news818790HALO research aircraft to analyze the transport of greenhouses gases and aerosols over the Pacific. JOINT PRESS RELEASE OF FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH AND JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY MAINZ The extreme precipitation that occurs during the Asiatic monsoon season repeatedly causes catastrophic devastation in Southeast Asia.2023-08-04T10:47+0200idw-online-58655cee5f405fae75acbdf4a1f844ac20230804104700