41750 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.ekathimerini.com/news/environment/1246741/adapting-to-a-new-fire-prone-reality/Valentini Papaioannou did not know what to expect as she returned to her home in Palaia Penteli, northeast of Athens, on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 13. Everything had happened so fast when she’d left it 30 hours earlier with her husband and their 2-year-old son, running away from a wildfire that had spread onto their street.2024-08-22T18:07+0200kathimerini-en-30cbc5f07226953b9b068ee1a97de97e20240822180700https://www.dw.com/en/wildfires-how-under-threat-are-cities/a-69957594Black smoke billowed behind Athen's iconic Parthenon temple in the past week as The image was a stark illustration that the wildfires intensifying around the world are not confined to remote, rural areas, but also having a huge impact in cities. Last month a large fire also broke out among the trees on Monte Mario hill in the center of Rome.2024-08-22T16:32+0200dw-en-1e83b80127f6b9ad69699aabb55be06a20240822163200https://www.dw.com/en/greeces-wildfires-claim-first-fatality/g-69922305Devastating wildfires in the northeastern of the capital, Athens, have claimed their first fatality as Greece asks the EU for help. The fires continuing to burn northeast of Greece's capital are keeping people on tenterhooks. On Tuesday morning, fire fighters found the body of a woman in a burned-out factory, according to Greek media reports.2024-08-22T16:32+0200dw-en-89acd8480970bf6dc77afdab2f77855220240822163200https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/environment/1246646/conducive-conditions-up-wildfire-challenge/Soaring summer temperatures and very low rainfall levels have made forests much more combustible, multiple studies on the impact of climate change have shown, with forests on the outskirts of towns and cities being particularly vulnerable, just as they are particularly valuable.2024-08-22T10:31+0200kathimerini-en-a5bf86fc27fe00efc3fc931c1e647ba220240822103100