500 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://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/amid-record-high-fires-across-the-amazon-brazil-loses-primary-forests/The Amazon Rainforest continues to feel the effect of 2023’s severe drought that intensified the dry season, provoking blazes across vast regions of untouched vegetation. Fire outbreaks in these swaths of primary forest grew by 152% in 2023, according to a recent study, and record highs of wildfires....2024-04-23T09:12+0200mongabay-72cac306f65d0a1545305a008889210420240423091200https://www.infobae.com/america/america-latina/2024/04/17/comenzo-la-cumbre-de-fuerzas-aereas-de-15-paises-de-america-en-quito/Ecuador es el epicentro de un evento que reúne a comandantes y delegados de las Fuerzas Aéreas de 15 países americanos . Se trata del cuadragésimo séptimo Comité del Sistema de Cooperación entre las Fuerzas Aéreas Americanas (SICOFAA), un foro regional que inició el 16 de abril, que se extenderá hasta el domingo 19 y que se celebra en Quito.2024-04-17T17:00+0200infobae-647cd4af04426621502e74b271e119e120240417170000https://www.stabroeknews.com/2024/04/11/opinion/letters/increase-our-firefighting-capacity-to-tackle-the-current-destructive-and-polluting-wildfires/Dear Editor, Human-caused climate change coupled with the natural El Nino dry weather phenomenon and aided and abetted by people deliberately setting grass and forest fires have brought us to this current state of destructive and polluting wildfires raging across our country. Spontaneous combustion is also being blamed.2024-04-11T08:07+0200stabroeknews-07a6173e9b0d417b81ebba0bd7ea957a20240411080700https://www.ecoportal.net/en/paises/amazonia-cambio-climatico/The Amazon, the largest tropical forest on the planet, is at a crossroads. On the one hand, its lush vegetation and rich biodiversity make it a vital ecosystem for the health of the planet. It acts as a carbon sink, absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thus regulating the global climate.2024-04-08T15:40+0200ecoportal-3339af6e9e5961d556ba884c3217966220240408154000