18510 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://greekreporter.com/2024/08/12/extreme-forest-fires-frequency/Extreme forest fires, as seen in Greece this year are 25 percent more frequent nowadays due to climate change. Credit: AMNA. As Greece battles with huge wildfires near Athens , a recent California study, stressed that the risk of rapidly spreading forest fires has increased significantly as a result of climate change.2024-08-12T20:10+0200greekreporter-071b4fa681d43bbbb53f4fdce9c44ba720240812201000https://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2024/08/12/russian-forest-fire-smoke-drifts-into-finnish-lapland/Located about 125 km from the Finnish border, the Russian forest fire covers an area of about 1,000 hectares, according to an estimate by Finnish rescue services. (Vesa-Pekka Hiltunen / Yle, Mapcreator, OpenStreetMap) Emergency services have received reports of smoke in the region over the past few days.2024-08-12T18:23+0200rcinet-ca-en-6fc952e994e59482a0ccdc1f06d26f2c20240812182300https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/air-quality-statements-issued-for-parts-of-northern-ontario-due-to-prairie-wildfire-smoke-1.7292093?cmp=rssEnvironment Canada has issued special air quality statements for six northern First Nations in Ontario as wildfire smoke drifts into the parts of the region. A waterbomber aircraft is shown flying through smokey conditions in Ontario. As of Monday, many northern First Nations in Ontario are experiencing poor air quality due to forest fire smoke.2024-08-12T16:23+0200CBC-adacedbdc7bea6d2915477ac529d4ec420240812162300https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/extreme-heat-poor-air-quality-here-is-canada-s-forecast-for-the-week-1.6997263Some Canadian provinces are in for a mixed bag of thunderstorms, heat warnings and air quality alerts as summer weather and wildfires continue this week. Here’s a look at the week’s forecast. Extreme heat. Five provinces and two territories are under heat warnings this week.2024-08-12T16:15+0200barrie-df7b352daf609cab84651872d0bb9ef620240812161500