15060 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.eastbaytimes.com/2020/04/18/coronavirus-alameda-county-covid-19-death-toll-nears-1989-earthquakes/The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Alameda County has reached 41 — one less of than the casualty total from the collapse of the Cypress Freeway in Oakland during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. New information released Saturday by the Alameda County Public Health Department showed....Sun, 19 Apr 2020 02:55:00 +0200eastbaytimes-c1d6d5ea88e42769b3bcd55bef9f29a320200419025500https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/18/coronavirus-alameda-county-covid-19-death-toll-nears-1989-earthquakes/The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Alameda County has reached 41 — one less of than the casualty total from the collapse of the Cypress Freeway in Oakland during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. New information released Saturday by the Alameda County Public Health Department showed....Sun, 19 Apr 2020 02:46:00 +0200mercurynews-c1d6d5ea88e42769b3bcd55bef9f29a320200419024600https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/apr/18/nonprofit-on-the-front-lines-of-pandemi/With covid-19 deaths soaring and the peak date uncertain, a charity known as Samaritan's Purse hurriedly set up a field hospital in New York's Central Park, providing 68 extra beds for the stricken city. While they went about their tasks, another Samaritan's Purse team was rushing to Arkansas to help tornado-ravaged Jonesboro.Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:22:00 +0200arkansasonline-97e761fba577d30280e66a041637f34420200418102200https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-trees?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AllDiscovermagazinecomContent+%28All+DISCOVERmagazine.com+stories%291. I think that I shall never see an organism as vital as a tree. Without these woody, perennial members of the plant kingdom, we might still be squirming around the seafloor. 2. About 400 million years ago, early trees transformed terrestrial environments by reducing atmospheric carbon.Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:35:00 +0200discovermagazine-046be092e248085dcff359a4213b89fd20200417153500