13750 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://phys.org/news/2015-12-nasa-formation-tropical-depression-melor.htmlNASA's Aqua satellite captured this infrared image of Bohale on Dec. 10 at 2:47 p.m. EST that showed powerful thunderstorms with cold cloud top temperatures (purple) near minus 63 Fahrenheit (minus 53 Celsius) surrounded the center. Credit: NASA JPL/Ed Olsen.Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:40:00 +0100phys-7e06987211f830f0a6dd96736ba7ec1e20151211214000http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201512110010A tatami shop owner who lost his home in the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 is helping natural disaster victims with a project to supply them with traditional straw mats. Hundreds of manufacturers have signed up for Toshiyasu Maeda’s industry-wide initiative to donate 5,000 tatami mats to evacuation centers in the event of a natural disaster.Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:16:00 +0100ajw-3d07d259fab889bb212e404716d57a8020151211081600http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/deadline-near-on-government-plan-to-match-syria-donationsAid groups are hoping Canadians will still support the millions of Syrian refugees who won’t be coming here, as the clock ticks down on the federal government’s promise to match private donations to help them. Thursday, the first of what will end up being dozens of planeloads of Syrian hoping to start new lives in Canada was to arrive in Toronto.Fri, 11 Dec 2015 07:55:00 +0100ottawacitizen-c63fdb42410b011a7a3ebedcca6e8fb220151211075500http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article48770170.htmlThe usually dry mote around the elephant exhibit is full of water at Zoo Miami. PATRICK FARRELL pfarrell@miamiherald.com. After a weekend deluge forced it to close for five days, Zoo Miami is reopening its gates Thursday. The county-owned tourist attraction remained closed Wednesday in the wake of....Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:39:00 +0100miamiherald-7ad4d69d5aafad00ce6e2d5f1d2b2fb120151210143900