25170 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://futuroverde.org/2019/01/29/en-2018-los-desastres-naturales-provocaron-mas-de10000-victimas/Los desastres naturales en el mundo provocaron en 2018 más de 10,000 víctimas, una cifra por debajo de las 77,000 de media anual en lo que va de siglo, según informó la Oficina para la Reducción de Riesgos de Desastres de Naciones Unidas ( La alta representante de la UNISDR, Mami Mizutori, destacó....Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:58:00 +0100futuroverde-bce222529c90e902669fccd95bb04b8120190129165800https://www.irinnews.org/opinion/2019/01/29/el-nino-earthquakes-leading-disaster-watcher-scans-horizon-2019. The study, focused on a wide range of natural hazards , is used by governments and UN agencies as they track losses and damage and plan disaster mitigation and adaptation in the face of climate change. Among the unusual events Guha-Sapir noted in a recent presentation of 281 climate and....Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:07:00 +0100irinnews-679053cb31b6c098d550258e4ba59c6520190129140700https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/science-update/emergency-early-warning-system-krakatoa-volcanoOn 22 Dec 2018 13:56 UTC a tsunami was generated from the collapsing of the Anak Krakatau Volcano, with waves propagating in all directions inside the Sunda Strait, the sea portion between the Java and Sumatra islands, Indonesia. The cause of this event seems to have a strong correlation with the....Tue, 29 Jan 2019 04:34:00 +0100EC-34c39c8a612d5ba5b202b4755b18b1d220190129043400https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/science-updatesA new brief prepared by the JRC shows that energy produced from biomass represented 59% of the EU's renewable energy consumption (and 10% of all energy sources) in 2016. Bioenergy is helping the EU to meet its target of 20% renewable energy by 2020. Consumption is expected to increase as the EU works towards its 2030 targets.Tue, 29 Jan 2019 04:34:00 +0100EC-6e02988f76aff30e05ef492a1d99646a20190129043400