2820 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://reliefweb.int/report/world/servir-produces-maps-support-efforts-against-locust-outbreak-eastern-africaSERVIR, a joint program between NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has partnered with relief organizations and the United Nations, to produce maps that could explain locust behavior. The maps provide useful information on environmental conditions, such as soil moisture....Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:43:00 +0200reliefWeb-68a249d7e918d5eab5252ea7f29283fd20200403144300https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/stop-looking-away-race-covid-19-victims/609250/By April 1927, the Mississippi River’s rapidly rising waters burst levees in Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, inundating 26,000 square miles of land. Cash-crop production in the nation’s most prosperous agricultural region halted. Floodwaters killed upwards of 1,000 people and injured untold others.Wed, 01 Apr 2020 19:27:00 +0200newsnow-co-uk-142f7ed58ad48a92c906a9bdc31fa47e20200401192700http://www.mondaq.com/Article/908714Do flood exclusions and flood sublimits bar or reduce coverage? With climate change comes extreme weather, which has led to catastrophic losses by insured businesses. Two such catastrophic weather events are Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012.Sat, 28 Mar 2020 06:05:00 +0100mondaq-366b4b26902a8ec25b4212a8b63d50de20200328060500https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/25/coronavirus-update-new-york-hospitals-battle-outbreak.htmlThe top surgeon of a major New York City hospital dealing with a flood of hundreds of patients infected with the coronavirus rallied his staff with a letter that compared the pandemic to a typhoon, and urged them to stand strong in its face. "A forest of bamboo bends to the ground in a typhoon but rarely breaks," wrote Dr.Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:27:00 +0100cnbc-84c4694d001a27418d1dbd1fd301502f20200325232700