697390 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.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/ocean-plastic-acted-as-rafts-for-sea-life-from-japan-to-north-america-1.3611742After a tsunami hit Japan in 2011, hundreds of aquatic species migrated across the ocean to the North America by hitching rides on debris that acted as rafts, researchers said Thursday. A total of 289 living species were found in the U.S. on tsunami debris originating from Japan between 2012 and....Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:26:00 +0200ctvnews-b55a5da71bafa28c8cc93727375932c820170929142600https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article169162839/Tsunami-trieb-Tiere-auf-Plastikmuell-bis-nach-Amerika.htmlEin Seebeben vor der Küste Japans hatte im März 2011 einen Tsunami verursacht, der große Teile der Küste verwüstete. Millionen Objekte – von kleinen Plastikteilen bis zu ganzen Schiffen und Teilen von Hafenanlagen – wurden in den Pazifischen Ozean gespült.Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:25:00 +0200Welt-b318e1c7d99d8939a9e19313a62f85c820170929142500https://www.rdmag.com/news/2017/09/sea-critters-hitchhiked-across-pacific-tsunamiThis April 2015 photo provided by John W. Chapman shows marine sea slugs from a derelict vessel from Iwate Prefecture, Japan which washed ashore in Oregon. On Thursday, Sept. 27, 2017, researchers reported nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea creatures hitchhiked across the Pacific....Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:24:00 +0200rdmag-e7686893d898f1115aa568a7a6290cb020170929142400https://lenta.ru/news/2017/09/29/earthquake/Группа ученых из США выяснила, что Великое землетрясение, произошедшее у восточных берегов Японии в 2011 году, стало причиной аномальной миграции живых организмов к Северной Америке. В этом животным помог мусор, который был смыт в океан в результате цунами. Статья исследователей опубликована в журнале Science.Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:23:00 +0200lenta-b04d5d32ab856e8ec3a908f0db0328bb20170929142300