6220 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://yubanet.com/scitech/wmo-certifies-megaflash-lightning-extremes/on 28 June. WMO’s Committee on Weather and Climate Extremes, which maintains official records of global, hemispheric and regional extremes found that: The world’s greatest extent for a single lightning flash is a single flash that covered a horizontal distance of 709 ± 8 km (440.6 ± 5 mi) across parts of southern Brazil on 31 October 2018.Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:32:00 +0200yubanet-978097d8bdd04a80f52333a252226cf420200701203200http://www.ecns.cn/news/2020-07-01/detail-ifzxrvxc0874259.shtmlNongovernmental rescue teams' skills valued. Private individuals and NGOs will be encouraged to participate in the country's responses to floods and droughts, according to a notice released by the Ministry of Emergency Management on Saturday. As the country's flood season has begun, continuous....Wed, 01 Jul 2020 05:11:00 +0200ecns-e9fb3684476b36158f5433d33240d9b220200701051100https://www.zmescience.com/science/china-three-gorges-dam-discharge-0626/— Harry Chen PhD (@PhdParody) June 28, 2020 Nevertheless, China finally admitted that the dam had implemented its first floodwater discharge of the year and that a new wave of flooding is heading toward the Three Gorges catchment area, which covers one million squared kilometers – amid heavy rainfall in the Yangtze River.Tue, 30 Jun 2020 18:57:00 +0200zmescience-3e7386ec81dfd07f34954186def62dba20200630185700http://english.sina.com/china/s/2020-06-30/detail-iircuyvk1153225.shtmlBEIJING, June 30 (Xinhua) -- China will ramp up efforts in flood control and drought relief to ensure the safety of people's lives and property, according to the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters. The relevant departments and local governments should bolster the prevention of....Tue, 30 Jun 2020 05:29:00 +0200sinacom-en-21eb782061296da5f213a2326437c22c20200630052900