7010 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.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/08/22/portugal-launches-new-fire-prevention-campaign-as-wildfires-continue-to-rageFirefighters continue to battle a wildfire which has raged on the Portuguese Island of Madeira for a week and threatens a UNESCO-listed forest. The country has not seen a fire of this scale since 2017, when it recorded its deadliest blazes. Since then, the number of forest fires has gone down by....2024-08-22T19:47+0200euronews-en-8ba89aabb651da32952c0764ea2ad68820240822194700https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/ciencia-cultura/2024/08/22/el-cambio-climatico-exacerbo-el-riesgo-de-grandes-incendios-en-2023/En 2023 hubo al menos tres veces más probabilidades de incendios forestales sin precedentes en Canadá y la Amazonia por el cambio climático, que contribuyeron a los altos niveles de emisiones de CO2. En la primera edición de una nueva revisión anual sistemática, el informe ‘State of Wildfires’,....2024-08-22T18:39+0200elmostrado-03914b4811dbd5910fef87d0719bd34120240822183900https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/38-collisions-so-far-on-e-c-row-expressway-at-howard-avenue-in-2024-1.7010511As pressure mounts for federal intervention as Canada's two biggest railways grind to an unprecedented halt, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government will have more to say 'shortly' on what it's doing 'to make sure that the right solution is found quickly for the economy.2024-08-22T18:31+0200barrie-e78457d10055a633c63f9c29239c76b020240822183100https://www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/news/extreme-weather-hitting-close-to-home-for-13-of-canadians-poll-7498169A new poll suggests more Canadians are feeling the direct impacts of extreme weather, but that has not changed overall opinions about climate change. The results from a recent Leger poll suggest more than one in three Canadians have been touched directly by extreme weather such as forest fires, heat waves, floods or tornadoes.2024-08-22T17:48+0200crestonvalleyadvance-56a903e3d89dc77096e54a48f16d898920240822174800