4620 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://japantoday.com/category/features/environment/forest-fires-a-record-yearAs the deadliest year this century for forest fires comes to a close, attention is turning to how to prevent such infernos happening again. In 2023 forest fires destroyed nearly 400 million hectares (988 million acres) of land around the world, killed more than 250 people and emitted 6.5 billion tonnes of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.2023-12-29T22:19+0100japantoday-189659aa746b67709c8dcf9e0d982da220231229221900https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2023-12-29/australia-faces-new-year-amid-strong-storms-heat-waves/Local residents clean up after storm damage in Oxenford on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 28 December 2023. EFE-EPA/JASON O'BRIEN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT Australia faces new year amid strong storms, heat waves. Sydney. Australia, Dec 29 (EFE).2023-12-29T08:27+0100efe-07c44b7804e09481ef93bf809315596520231229082700https://www.newsweek.com.ar/ecologia/ano-negro-para-el-ambiente-incendios-forestales-record-generaron-miles-de-millones-de-toneladas-de-co2/Los incendios forestales en 2023 destruyeron casi 400 millones de hectáreas, se cobraron más de 250 vidas y arrojaron a la atmósfera dióxido de carbono (CO2). El continente americano conoció este año una temporada de incendios forestales que batió todos los récords, con cerca de 80 millones de....2023-12-28T16:42+0100newsweek-AR-96321bd67697be1b27b02f7b9206e3bd20231228164200https://www.naharnet.com:443/stories/en/302433-forest-fires-a-record-yearAs the deadliest year this century for forest fires comes to a close, attention is turning to how to prevent such infernos happening again. In 2023 forest fires destroyed nearly 400 million hectares (988 million acres) of land around the world, killed more than 250 people and emitted 6.5 billion tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.2023-12-28T14:39+0100naharnet-ar-81a5d023b9f2dcd3f52152b646a431aa20231228143900