368470 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://www.bangkokpost.com/business/1848069/coronavirus-quarantine-will-ripple-through-global-manufacturingAs the spread of the new coronavirus in China causes more factory shutdowns, the effect on global industrial supply chains could linger for years. China now makes up more than twice the share of global merchandise exports it did in 2003, when the SARS virus hit. Guangdong province alone exported more in 2018 than China did as a whole 17 years ago.Sat, 01 Feb 2020 01:12:00 +0100BangkokPost-66aeb872e2e5865303dbaf6e8efe6dcb20200201011200https://news.yahoo.com/cant-deal-tsunami-coronavirus-spreads-075342501.htmlBenjamin So was mid-way through a 36-hour shift at a Hong Kong hospital when an elderly couple from Wuhan, China was wheeled into the isolation ward at 3 a.m. After the nurse took their vitals and nasal samples to test for the novel coronavirus, he got to work.Fri, 31 Jan 2020 21:36:00 +0100news-yahoo-2263b6aad28dc9bb9d73f6af795c3ac520200131213600https://news.yahoo.com/cant-deal-tsunami-coronavirus-spreads-075342501.htmlBenjamin So was mid-way through a 36-hour shift at a Hong Kong hospital when an elderly couple from Wuhan, China was wheeled into the isolation ward at 3 a.m. After the nurse took their vitals and nasal samples to test for the novel coronavirus, he got to work.Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:36:00 +0100news-yahoo-6f11ab774f28a7afe1156356f0a88d9520200131193600