310640 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.finanzen.ch/nachrichten/aktien/emergency-readiness-app-harbor-launches-personalized-risk-tiers-to-pinpoint-what-you-need-to-prepare-for-most-1029894527NEW YORK Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- harbor, a company reimagining emergency readiness, today announced a key update to the harbor app, giving users hyper-specific personal risk assessments for all emergencies. With this update, harbor aggregates and democratizes both public and private data....Tue, 15 Dec 2020 16:12:00 +0100finanzen-ch-fcab81091ce9f35b602da41b359897d720201215161200https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/12/15/extreme-weather-causing-us-solar-insurance-premiums-to-explode/From pv magazine USA Renewable energy projects, especially solar installations, are seeing steep insurance premium cost increases due to industry disruptions caused by extreme weather events, according to by Norton Rose Fulbright. The market for property and casualty insurance for solar projects has....Tue, 15 Dec 2020 06:41:00 +0100pv-magazine-dcbbb8f8405a58de462c862555074d8f20201215064100https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/14/byron-bay-beach-damage-worst-in-a-generation-as-storms-batter-1000km-of-coastlinelocals say damage to the town’s main beach is “the worst in a generation” as heavy rain, abnormally high tides and wild surf, combined with long term erosion problems, washed away much of the remaining sand. Storms have battered a 1,000km stretch of the Queensland and northern NSW coastline for....Tue, 15 Dec 2020 03:29:00 +0100guardian-5527e5e775127c1a1d8d47d0c7ebc3b720201215032900https://goodtimes.sc/santa-cruz-news/fire-hardening-california-home-insurance-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fire-hardening-california-home-insurance-crisisSue Ladich spent $1,600 clearing brush and trees from around her home in 2014. In 2017, she ponied up $3,500 to clear even more potential wildfire fuel from her property. This year, she spent another $2,200. But the more than $7,000 and countless hours of work spent in the name of keeping her....Tue, 15 Dec 2020 01:19:00 +0100goodtimes-325672858131d74a72aef49e176c6f1b20201215011900