1351200 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 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/19/dry-grasses-are-the-fuse-that-is-igniting-californias-explosive-fires/?utm_source=rss_Californians had prayed for an El Niño weather pattern to deliver snow and rain to a state beset by historic drought and tough water restrictions. And last winter, down it came. It snowed in the high Sierra Nevada Mountains and poured in the north near San Francisco, filling reservoirs that were critically low.Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:57:00 +0200WashingtonPost-85212632fca32848ab55ec3e343064e020160819215700http://www.mx.dk/nyheder/kobenhavn/story/30500065TV: Her bliver 'Tsunami-Lars' danmarksmester i vandbombe I dag blev Copenhagen Health Week skudt i gang med afviklingen af DM i vandbombe. Med et spring fra fem meter handlede det blandt andet om at lave det højeste plask. Plask, klask, sprøjt! En lille dreng dukker op til vandets overflade og ryster håret.Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:56:00 +0200mx-1a88d4636058cc85192a21337124fd8020160819215600http://phys.org/news/2016-08-nasa-tropical-storm-lionrock-south.htmlNASA's Terra satellite captured this infrared image of Tropical Storm Lionrock on Aug. 19, 2016, at 9:10 a.m. EDT that showed strongest storms with coldest cloud top temperatures (yellow) northeast of the center. Credit: NASA/NRL. Tropical Storm Lionrock was moving south of Japan when NASA's Terra....Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:12:00 +0200phys-31d3db3beb5ba1bf67919ec00f9b643820160819211200http://phys.org/news/2016-08-nasa-terra-satellite-tropical-storm.htmlOn Aug. 19 at 3 a.m. EDT (07:00 UTC), NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible light image of Tropical Storm Dianmu over Vietnam. Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team. NASA's Terra satellite saw Tropical Storm Dianmu after making landfall in northeastern Vietnam. On Aug. 19 at 3 a.m.Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:12:00 +0200phys-8670d64f9f26a584c0d84716d83b932720160819211200