21040 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://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/pets-pose-special-problems-in-natural-disastersIf this past summer has taught us anything, it is that Japan is a land of natural disasters. W’d better get used to it, and prepare for it. Just about anything can happen, anywhere, anytime. Preparation involves everything from knowing the location of the nearest shelter to having emergency supplies....Thu, 01 Nov 2018 23:16:00 +0100japantoday-447e3912bf678909daf074f0fadeb8a520181101231600https://www.marketscreener.com/CISCO-SYSTEMS-4862/news/Cisco-The-Top-3-Ways-Mobile-Phones-Can-Help-Disaster-Victims-27530428/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20181101This post was written by guest blogger Zev Lowe, VP of Growth and Impact at AtmaGo. Globally, disasters and humanitarian crises are on the rise . In the last 10 years, disasters have caused US$1.4 trillion in damage and affected 1.7 billion people . In the last two months alone, the United States....Thu, 01 Nov 2018 22:54:00 +01004-traders-7e8dc7a8f1c663dbe079a7d8a079dc5e20181101225400https://www.fijitimes.com/no-tsunami-threat-after-tonga-9-0-magnitude-earthquake/Employees of the government ministries including a few UN agencies who participated in the tsunami drill organized by the National Disaster Management Office in Suva yesterday. Picture: JOVESA NAISUA. THE increase in seismic activity along the Pacific region coupled with major earthquakes and....Thu, 01 Nov 2018 05:31:00 +0100fijitimes-3af61322d9e20eca8aaf497f9c34a29120181101053100https://reliefweb.int/report/world/world-cities-day-addressing-internal-displacement-key-achieving-urban-sustainabilityUrban sustainability is a key objective in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development , set by world leaders in 2015 to end poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change. Yet, it cannot be achieved if national and local governments continue to overlook the issue of internal displacement.Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:33:00 +0100reliefWeb-cd6aec628bc7486639f8101aafe229d420181031143300