16230GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Typhoons becoming bigger and nastier: Can Tokyo withstand the next big blow?https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/typhoons-becoming-bigger-and-nastier-can-tokyo-withstand-the-next-big-blowWhen it comes to destructive typhoons, the general agreement is that the worst in living memory occurred September 1959, when Typhoon No. 15 -- also referred to as Typhoon Vera and the Ise-wan Taifu -- struck the Chubu region. Packing ultra-low pressure of 895 hectopascals and maximum sustained....Fri, 11 Sep 2020 22:26:00 +0200japantoday-4e2a603d6691b75c0e29d01f46eaff7b20200911222600Safe management of the UK separated plutonium inventory: a challenge of materials degradationhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41529-020-00132-7Internationally, more than 340 metric tons of separated plutonium were declared as holdings, by the nine countries reporting to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) under the Guidelines for the Management of Plutonium (INFCIRC/549), see Fig. 2 .Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:10:00 +0200nature-npjmatdeg-4f5467b843764e4dba5f5f1ea38b028420200911121000IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 6605: Land Cover Classification by Integrating NDVI Time Series and GIS Data to Evaluate Water Circulation in Aso Caldera, Japanhttps://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/18/6605Grasslands in Aso caldera, Japan, are a type of land cover that is integral for biodiversity, tourist attractions, agriculture, and groundwater recharge. However, the area of grasslands has been decreasing in recent years as a result of natural disasters and changes in social conditions surrounding agriculture.Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:47:00 +0200mdpi-5caf0c0e7411b67860599e06ab240a6020200910164700IOC, Tokyo officials say Olympics must go on in 2021 'at any cost'https://www.upi.com/Sports_News/2020/09/09/IOC-Tokyo-officials-say-Olympics-must-go-on-in-2021-at-any-cost/8051599694044/Sept. 9 (UPI) -- International Olympic Committee officials and Japan's Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto pledged that the Games in Tokyo will take place next summer despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Hashimoto said the Tokyo Games must be held "at any cost" starting July 23.Thu, 10 Sep 2020 03:40:00 +0200upi-7adad2170de5eebf022fc3946491aee020200910034000