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://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jul/14/8-charts-climate-change-world-more-dangerous Disasters including storms, floods and heatwaves have increased fivefold since the 1970s, UN finds Forget the future. The world already is nearly five times as dangerous and disaster prone as it was in the 1970s, because of the increasing risks brought by climate change, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organisation . Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:16:00 +0200 guardian en guardian-94f1cda9a1a1e52069ddfeaf15039d05 NaturalDisasters FoodSecurityFoodAid Environment ClimateChange 23.7099 90.4071 15.5501 32.5322 2.04118 45.3441 -25.9622 32.5737 9.02274 38.7468 55.7388 37.6665 20140714131600 http://reliefweb.int/report/world/atlas-mortality-and-economic-losses-weather-climate-and-water-extremes-1970-2012 Source: Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, World Meteorological Organization Country: Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar, Myanmar, Peru, Philippines, Russian Federation, Somalia, Sudan, Thailand, United States of.... Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:55:00 +0200 reliefWeb en reliefWeb-65d6a2fd3dcca9a93263d0f86e24eb18 UNbodies NaturalDisasters Environment EnterpriseEurope2 -38.070419 145.415207 37.098333 -94.388333 39.919533 -75.388837 46.20153 6.1666667 16.8722 96.1249 -6.18287 106.829 -25.9622 32.5737 9.02274 38.7468 35.2086 110.727 55.7388 37.6665 65.195793 -141.791397 14.6096 121.006 34.147678 -85.684219 50.8371 4.36761 10.49605 -66.898277 22.679489 90.643913 15.5501 32.5322 41.832222 -78.586111 45.399646 -122.266655 20140711145500 http://article.wn.com/view/2014/07/05/Heavy_rains_ongoing_violence_push_South_Sudan_towards_39hung/ Heavy rain has swept across western parts of the UK, bringing a further risk of flooding to some areas left struggling after recent storms. The rain has now moved to eastern parts of the country, which will see heavy rain through the afternoon. Forecasters also issued an amber warning of rain for the Somerset Levels, warning of further flooding. Sat, 05 Jul 2014 05:03:00 +0200 africaFM en africaFM-33ed583ee400e7415e99ceb4fd032f32 NaturalDisasters 53.3333333 -1.2833333 51.346863 -0.611497 55.8628 -4.26995 51.4879 -0.177998 51.06797 -0.322353 52.5895 -3.856853 4.85 31.6 55.8628 -4.26995 51.233486 -0.338646 20140705050300