100 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://eu.boell.org/en/2023/09/11/mires-and-myths-not-just-crime-sceneIf our ancestors had come up with the idea of equipping the world with information boards and warning signs, the pathways to peatlands would long ago have been decorated with signs saying things like “Warning: Entrance to Hell” or “Caution: Beware of the ghosts”. Many a solitary wanderer who ventured into a peatland was never seen again.2023-09-22T14:33+0200eu-boell-b03cc91104d0ecfa7097cc178584b89620230922143300