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://www.japantimes.co.jp/author/int-aaron_sheldrick/Feb 5, 2020 Reuters was recently given exclusive access to the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, where three reactors melted down in 2011 after a powerful earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the seaside facility. It was my fourth visit to the plant since the disaster to report on a ...Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:05:00 +0100japantimes-6b04524b05af302de8bd7ce2123d4507japantimesen41.48045 140.252502ManMadeDisastersNaturalDisastersJRCSafeguardsNuclearNuclearEnergyEnvironmentJRCNuclearSecurityJapanese governmentAaron Sheldrick20200205060500http://www.earthtimes.org/climate/drilling-half-million-years-history-under-dead-sea/188/There is little doubt in scientific minds that the world is getting warmer. This is particularly evident in the Middle East, but one important question is whether this is something new or whether it is part of some larger cyclical pattern. The answer to this question is one of the hoped for results....Sat, 01 Feb 2020 10:29:00 +0100earthtimes-36953e13e9828ebac6e1682349e1d78dearthtimesen52.5163 13.3276EnvironmentClimateChangeNaturalDisastersPalestinian AuthorityThe DeadTel Aviv University20200201102900https://ec.europa.eu/echo/what/civil-protection/mechanism_enThe overall objective of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism is to strengthen cooperation between the EU Member States and 6 Participating States in the field of civil protection, with a view to improve prevention, preparedness and response to disasters.Thu, 23 Jan 2020 05:18:00 +0100EC-4dcc92b92a2bce00bb2144677ed9fb40ECen64.99060768658 -18.593991539543NaturalDisastersJRCNuclearSecurityNuclearECnewsNuclearDecommissioningMaritimeTransportCivilProtectionManMadeDisastersUNbodiesCrisisResponseDisasterReliefEU-LatinAmericaCivil ProtectionUnited NationsEUEuropean CommissionEmergencyMember StatesManagement Service20200123051800https://reliefweb.int/report/world/eu-civil-protection-mechanism-factsheet-last-updated-15012020What is it? The overall objective of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism is to strengthen cooperation between the EU Member States and 6 Participating States in the field of civil protection, with a view to improve prevention, preparedness and response to disasters.Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:13:00 +0100reliefWeb-a69039e6c5b3ce963727b48b478679c4reliefWeben64.99060768658 -18.593991539543NaturalDisastersUNbodiesECnewsJRCNuclearSecurityDisasterReliefCrisisResponseNuclearMaritimeTransportCivilProtectionNuclearDecommissioningManMadeDisastersEU-LatinAmericaCivil ProtectionUnited NationsEUEuropean CommissionEmergencyMember StatesManagement Service20200122131300http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_20_02_21_en.html?infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=51845Emergency events in urban areas, either due to natural disasters (earthquake, hurricane, flood) or acts of war or terrorism, can lead to massive destruction, damaging infrastructure and causing injury and loss of life. In such situations, the work of urban search-and-rescue (USAR) teams is vital to....Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:50:00 +0100ec-europa-4e41a17b92a3085c68d48c801c0a5584ec-europaen48.8521 2.34899NaturalDisastersEUEmergency20200221125000