687100 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 http://news.yahoo.com/volunteers-scrape-creatures-tsunami-dock-003419026.htmlThe boxcar-sized dock that was torn loose by the tsunami in Japan and washed up on an Oregon beach has been scraped clean of seaweed, shellfish and other organisms and sterilized with torches to prevent the spread of invasive species.Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:18:00 +0200news-yahoo-e7f0d66ddd6aa16fac5b29d20433813320120608031800http://www.irishsun.com/index.php?sid/206408333/scat/2411cd3571b4f088For years, the fishermen of Misawa, a small town on the north-eastern corner of Japan's main island, Honshu, set sail from one of four outwardly unremarkable floating docks, built using concrete ...Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:14:00 +0200irishsun-b1572663d555f9a2e776dc4d0d4286f620120608031400http://www.irishsun.com/index.php?sid/206408820/scat/2411cd3571b4f088Odds of UK vote on EU membership shorten A huge dock unmoored during last year’s Japanese tsunami washed up on an Oregon beach this week and authorities are debating how to remove ...Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:14:00 +0200irishsun-a7966d27158f4fb8dba4733445e62be820120608031400http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/b2f0ca3a594644ee9e50a8ec4ce2d6de/Article_2012-06-07-Coastal%20Debris/id-d9b9abc1a68e48a38554b29f903502e1When the tsunami hit the northern coast of Japan last year, the waves ripped four dock floats the size of freight train boxcars from their pilings in the fishing port of Misawa and turned them over to the whims of wind and currents. One floated up on a nearby island. Two have not been seen again.Fri, 08 Jun 2012 02:52:00 +0200AP-4aabf0570f1dacc44dac276ea3a6be3220120608025200