42880 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.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/06/06/hurricane-blanca/28600625/Hurricane Blanca intensified into a Category 4 storm off the Mexican coast Saturday, but is expected to weaken before it nears land late Sunday. The system is now packing 130-mph winds, and tropical storm warnings and hurricane watches have been issued along the Pacific coast of Mexico, including for Cabo San Lucas, Santa Fe and La Paz.Sun, 07 Jun 2015 05:59:00 +0200usaToday-3f4c1bbcf32cc77faad041b0cf760e0220150607055900http://www.ibtimes.com/hurricane-blanca-makes-its-way-toward-mexicos-baja-peninsula-1955756Hurricane Blanca is seen in an infrared night-time image taken by NASA's Suomi NPP satellite off the coast of Mexico at 4:11 a.m. EDT (8:11 GMT) June 5, 2015. Reuters/NASA. Hurricane Blanca plowed north Saturday with its eye passing Socorro Island, about 285 miles south of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. As of 8 p.Sun, 07 Jun 2015 04:10:00 +0200ibtimes-59155ca5794c3a6c5b52cab5b1c62b3820150607041000http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/06/05/hurricane-blanca-shows-signs-of-intensification-as-it-tracks-north-toward-baja/?wprss=rss_localHurricane Blanca is tracking north through the East Pacific west of Mexico on Friday with the potential to strengthen in the next 12 to 24 hours as it approaches the Baja Peninsula, where it’s expected to make landfall over the weekend. Hurricane Blanca would be the second cyclone since September to....Fri, 05 Jun 2015 20:23:00 +0200WashingtonPost-4f8b02521e4b0f248efbc6c6dbd12e1f20150605202300http://phys.org/news/2015-06-image-sentinel-1a-captures-tianjin-china.htmlThe city sits to the west of the Bohai Bay within the Bohai Gulf, off of the Yellow Sea. With a population of over 14 million people, this megacity is among China's five largest. Urban areas are home to over half of the world's population, and are rapidly changing environments.Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:29:00 +0200phys-204fb8c746590de0e44b9a1087f094a720150605122900