Italian cities put on alert and Spain sees record temperatures as heatwave grips Europe. Sunday marks the third day the fires, set alight by an act of arson, have been burning. It’s a tragic situation. © L’ensemble des textes et photos peuvent être réutilisés, à condition que l’UE/ECHO soit cité comme référence. On Saturday, the UN refugee agency urged European nations to let in hundreds of people rescued from the Mediterranean by humanitarian boats, including one vessel financed by the British street artist Banksy. IT00876481003 - © Copyright ANSA - All rights reserved, ANSA certification for the production, distribution and publication of news in multimedia format, COVID: No Piedmont commercial activities from midnight, Govt hasn't decided on new COVID measures - Speranza, Posthumous Morricone album to feature 7 new tracks, Time for decisive moves on right to food - Mattarella, Hunger not just tragedy but also disgrace - pope. “Between five and seven migrants are feared missing. Every year, devastating fires destroy thousands of hectares of forests in Europe. Cyprus may even see a small decrease every month; there will be 2 to 6 additional weeks of fire risk everywhere, except for the south of Italy and Cyprus. The maximum increase is again inland (Spain, Maghreb, Balkans, North Italy, and Central Turkey), where at least an additional month with risk of fire is expected. A significant proportion of this increase in fire risk is actually extreme fire risk; the south of France, Crete, and the coastal area of the rest of Mediterranean Region also show a significant increase in the number of days with fire risk (1-4 weeks), but not in the number of extreme fire risk. #VeronaTorricelle  pic.twitter.com/yNdyjlaZct, E c’è ancora chi nega il cambiamento climatico. La mia solidarietà ai cittadini di #Verona devastata pochi minuti fa da un violentissimo nubifragio. Four migrants are in hospital with serious burn injuries, and two rescue workers have suffered injuries. The Cameron Peak Fire started on August 13, 2020, on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests near Cameron Pass and Chambers Lake in Colorado. The plea from UNHCR and IOM also mentioned hundreds of migrants on two other charity ships in urgent need of safe harbour. 12 others remain missing, more than 130 000 houses have been inundated, and wide swaths of... Northern Territory's capital Darwin was hit by up to 177 mm (7 inches) of rainfall on Thursday, October 8, 2020-- the city's highest daily rainfall for October since record-keeping began in 1941, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) confirmed. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Furthermore, secondary damages via other consecutive natural hazards, such as an enhancement of debris flows, erosion and avalanche danger, may occur, too (8). !Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: d2946a No.10586529 Sep 10 2020 06:20:58 (UTC) Oregon is on fire! Written By . In Italy and neighboring southern European countries, extreme heat exacerbated dozens of forest fires burning across the country. In the last 24 hours, a further 500 migrants have arrived at Lampedusa on small boats, causing a backlash among a portion of the local population. 28 of the 47 people in Maharashtra... New seismic data collected by scientists at Stanford University and the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences suggests that two competing processes are simultaneously operating beneath a collision zone in Tibet. 10 newly-discovered asteroids with a close approach within 1 lunar distance (<1LD asteroid) were discovered from October 12 to 18, 2020, marking a significant increase in detection and flybys of asteroids within 1 lunar distance in such a short period of time. In addition, forest fires are expected to encourage the spread of invasive species which in turn, have been shown to fuel more frequent and more intense forest fires (5). Please click here if you are looking for the full references for Italy.