1700 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://globalnews.ca/news/5718215/greenland-ice-melt-heat-wave/BERLIN — The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland , accelerating the melting of the island’s ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic. Greenland, the world’s largest island, is a semi-autonomous Danish territory....Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:26:00 +0200cknw-791fe1b8cef3d652eaa5ac2afd75a24620190802172600https://globalnews.ca/news/5718215/greenland-ice-melt-heat-wave/BERLIN — The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland , accelerating the melting of the island’s ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic. Greenland, the world’s largest island, is a semi-autonomous Danish territory....Fri, 02 Aug 2019 16:40:00 +0200globalnews-791fe1b8cef3d652eaa5ac2afd75a24620190802164000https://tass.com/emergencies/1071656TASS, August 2. A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck off the island of Sumatra, western Indonesia, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre reported on Friday. According to the service, the quake hit at a depth pf 10 km, its epicenter was 261 km from the city of Tangerang with a population of 1.Fri, 02 Aug 2019 15:08:00 +0200itartass_en-d082b9be36287ccd2102ab99f006d6f020190802150800https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-19/new-zealand-christchurch-gas-explosion-house-destroyed/11324760Key points: Footage shows scene of devastation, with roof blown off the house, walls crumbling and rubble littering the street; Locals report debris and pink batts rained down on residents; Fifty of them have been evacuated from the area. Residents described hearing the sound of an explosion about....Fri, 19 Jul 2019 04:31:00 +0200newsnow-co-uk-21dfee91c5df0c821484eb68bd9c90b720190719043100