517250 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://betanews.com/2015/05/14/how-technology-helps-nepal-relief-efforts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed+-+bn+-+Betanews+Full+Content+Feed+-+BNThe earthquake that struck Nepal two weeks ago has claimed the lives of more than 8,000 people, while a second has caused the death toll to rise further still. Natural disasters such as these shine a light upon the fragility of human life when faced with powerful tectonic forces.Thu, 14 May 2015 21:28:00 +0200betanews-dd38600b3aa090db8cb6c18a4f2f67ce20150514212800http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6236/766.3.shortPreparing for disasters. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) fully supports the development of “A community for disaster science” (M. McNutt, Editorial, 3 April, p. 11 ). Almost 2 years ago, we created the NIH Disaster Research Response (DR2) Project to facilitate the....Thu, 14 May 2015 21:03:00 +0200sciencemag-93d9a956bb1df4e0853684321dd1288d20150514210300http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201505140037.aspxTaipei, May 14 (CNA) The governor of Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, Yoshihiro Murai, is visiting Taiwan to promote bilateral exchanges and express gratitude for Taiwan's assistance in the wake of a powerful earthquake that struck northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011.Thu, 14 May 2015 19:02:00 +0200focustaiwan-b4d8152f850da7d9ead836ab95901c7620150514190200http://www.lanacion.cl/noticias/tecnologia/un-tsunami-de-chatarra-electronica-en-africa/2015-05-14/122847.htmlTelevisores que arrojan vapor, neveras que se incendian y ríos contaminados son parte del panorama rutinario en Agbogbloshie, un barrio de Accra, la gran metrópoli de Ghana . Esa zona se ha transformado en un símbolo de las consecuencias del consumo global de aparatos electrónicos.Thu, 14 May 2015 18:54:00 +0200lanacion-CL-9548d1c12d1f479aa1a83dca290fc42e20150514185400