371600 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.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/08/17/canada-s-mega-fires-13-7-million-hectares-of-forest-have-burned-twice-as-much-as-the-1989-record_6096785_8.htmlOn Thursday, August 17, the 20,000 residents of Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) were ordered to evacuate the city due to the rapid advance of forest fires. The early onset and extent of Canada's wildfires, which began in the spring, have already forced 168,000 people to evacuate since the start....2023-08-17T19:29+0200LeMonde-en-7bcc33513b080746474d87039584f65720230817192900https://it.marketscreener.com/quotazioni/azione/KEEP-INC-156623642/attualita/Explainer-La-stagione-record-degli-incendi-in-Canada-cosa-c-e-dietro-e-quando-finira-44642255/Ecco alcune domande e risposte sugli incendi in Canada, che hanno carbonizzato milioni di ettari e inquinato l'aria della nazione e degli Stati Uniti. QUALI PARTI DEL CANADA SONO STATE COLPITE DAGLI INCENDI? Gli incendi sono comuni nelle province occidentali del Canada, ma quest'anno anche le....2023-08-17T18:36+0200marketscreener-994f50d526580ba814fa52714d2db11620230817183600https://www.highlandstoday.com/wildfires-in-northwest-territories-hundreds-of-wildfires-raging-across-canada-authorities-speeding-up-evacuations-in-what-they-call-a-crisis-situation/Forest fires are spreading in hundreds of areas Canada The Northwest Territories have prompted officials to issue evacuation orders and declare a state of emergency as fires threaten the capital city of Yellowknife. According to Urban and Community Affairs Minister Shane Thompson, the state of....2023-08-17T17:50+0200highlandstoday-5eb00554a271f86128cbe46a369d0d1b20230817175000https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/world/879251/thousands-evacuated-as-wildfire-on-spain-s-tenerife-island-spreads/story/TENERIFE, Canary Islands, Spain Firefighters on Thursday struggled to contain a wildfire that broke out in a mountainous national park on the Spanish island of Tenerife, prompting authorities to evacuate at least 3,800 people. The fire's perimeter expanded to 31 kilometers across dry woodland....2023-08-17T16:53+0200gmanews-fdabd769866b40156cd181235825a34020230817165300