207150GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Papua New Guinea: Asia Pacific Region: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot 25 February - 03 March 2014http://reliefweb.int/report/papua-new-guinea/asia-pacific-region-weekly-regional-humanitarian-snapshot-25-february-03Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Fiji, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tonga PAPUA NEW GUINEA Torrential rains have caused floods in central and southern Bougainville. Initial Government reports indicate more than 5,000 people are affected.Mon, 03 Mar 2014 14:12:00 +0100reliefWeb-7fbc422fcd15f39fcdc1904bab02edfb20140303141200Storm expected to pass Guamhttp://www.guampdn.com/article/20140303/NEWS01/303030001/1002/NEWS01Tropical Storm Faxai is expected to make its closest point of approach to Guam tomorrow morning, more than 200 miles east of the island.Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:11:00 +0100guampdn-819834ddcb42e8fa838dd2d9a65b56a520140302181100Tropical storm likely to miss Guamhttp://www.guampdn.com/article/20140302/NEWS01/303020001/1002/NEWS01After developing into Tropical Storm Faxai yesterday, a disturbance hovering south of Guam began to inch away and appeared to weaken.Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:37:00 +0100guampdn-4c845a491b1df99d949a1c1cd07978d520140301183700Offshore Wind Farms Are Ugly And Unpoular, But They May Save Us From Hurricaneshttp://www.ibtimes.com/wind-farms-along-coast-may-counter-force-hurricanes-researchers-say-1558496The research, published online this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, concludes that wind turbines could reduce hurricanes’ wind speeds by 56-92 mph and wave heights and the resulting storm surge flooding by 6 to 79 percent. "The little turbines can fight back the beast," Cristina Archer, a....Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:17:00 +0100ibtimes-fe5b8636359d04f69f23825d8243eb8120140228141700