392850 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.earthtimes.org/pollution/one-year-bleak-future-people-fukushima/1820/Fukushima Daiichi, Japan via Shutterstock Many comparisons have been drawn between the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986 and the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi reactors in March 2011. Both could be attributed to human error and in both cases large amounts of radioactive material escaped into the atmosphere.Sat, 01 Feb 2020 03:47:00 +0100earthtimes-4e7c3ae8dde1a5125e2c962f36fd26fc20200201034700https://en.tengrinews.kz/disasters/18-dead-as-italy-struck-by-powerful-quake-263404/Dozens of buildings collapsed in communities close to the epicentre of the quake in a remote area straddling the regions of Umbria, Marche and Lazio. Deaths were reported in the villages of Amatrice, Accumoli and Arquata del Tronto as residents and emergency services scrambled frantically to rescue....Sat, 01 Feb 2020 02:06:00 +0100tengrinews-d32d3b00ec516b7cc9fac8a8b539c31a20200201020600http://www.earthtimes.org/business/corrupt-building-practices-cause-earthquake-deaths/240/Earthquakes can be very frightening, especially since they almost always come without any prior warning. It is estimated that several million earthquakes occur throughout the world each year, but most go undetected either because they are very small in magnitude, or because they occur in very remote areas.Sat, 01 Feb 2020 01:01:00 +0100earthtimes-96eb050cc6258673940309d1b91239d320200201010100https://news.yahoo.com/california-housing-bill-failure-sparks-140222843.html“What do we want? More housing! When do we want it? Now!” the activists shouted over the legislation’s author, the state senator Scott Wiener. Among the activists were the homeless women of Moms 4 Housing, the group of mothers who made headlines around the US by occupying a vacant, investor-owned....Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:15:00 +0100news-yahoo-de09332181c5d872e955ecae21d6e63520200201001500