264140 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://whatsnew2day.com/climate-change-shouts-loudly-in-summer-2023-warn-scientists-breaking/Earlier this summer, two Canadians walked into a party in rural Germany. “Canadians?” joked the host. “I thought you would smell more like smoke.” It’s been that kind of season. Floods, droughts, warm waters that bathe three coasts, but above all smoke from forest fires from sea to sea and abroad.2023-08-06T18:07+0200whatsnew2day-1df2eaef8abadcaf9c036624a5783fba20230806180700https://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-c2e0a731c739f52edbb6aa1162ed24f620230805142300https://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-90a03e7f15f1d39e186fe153c327a96720230804174200https://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-a7382535c65120230804161000