5710 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://kuwaittimes.com/article/18140/world/america/brazil-struggles-to-breathe-as-amazon-burns/PORTO VELHO, Brazil: Residents of Porto Velho in the Brazilian Amazon have barely seen sunlight in days as a thick cloud of smoke from forest fires envelops their city. “We are struggling to breathe,” said 30-year-old teacher Tayane Moraes, one of some 460,000 people who live in the city near the border with Bolivia.2024-08-22T23:57+0200kuwaittimes-79b9358642fd2f8c7e108397562d27ab20240822235700https://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://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2024/08/21/brazilians-struggling-to-breathe-as-amazon-burns/147677BRAZIL, Aug 21 — Residents of Porto Velho in the Brazilian Amazon have barely seen sunlight in days as a thick cloud of smoke from forest fires envelops their city. “We are struggling to breathe,” said 30-year-old teacher Tayane Moraes, one of some 460,000 people who live in the city near the border with Bolivia.2024-08-22T16:03+0200themalaymailonline-3709f7b9e80f4a077c686f45bbe4c7f120240822160300https://manilastandard.net/news/314487078/amazon-burns-brazilians-struggling-to-breathe.htmlPORTO VELHO, Brazil – Residents of Porto Velho in the Brazilian Amazon have barely seen sunlight in days as a thick cloud of smoke from forest fires envelops their city. “We are struggling to breathe,” said 30-year-old teacher Tayane Moraes, one of some 460,000 people who live in the city near the border with Bolivia.2024-08-21T20:55+0200manilastandard-ph-5c694b7e5a590b04a45f72ea4b5fa51420240821205500