723530GDACS 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 Okanagan hiker braved heat, deluge and lightning before airlift from northern B.C. trailhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/berg-lake-trail-mount-robson-provincial-park-flooding-1.6097648?cmp=rssHiker Erin Creagh still remembers what she describes as the nerve-wracking experience being stranded on the Berg Lake Trail which has been closed since July 1 due to the substantial damage done by the flood water. The world-renowned backcountry hiking trail — a stretch of 21 kilometres in northern B.2021-07-11T04:25+0200CBC-b17eb66379efd449b2b1fc3de763e3c420210711042500Flooded NYC subways exemplify why climate is key to infrastructure fighthttps://www.alternet.org/2021/07/nyc-flooding/Footage of New Yorkers struggling to wade through filthy, waist-deep water at a Manhattan subway station as heavy rainfall engulfed the city's aging and long-neglected infrastructure on Thursday added fuel to progressive demands for a robust federal spending package that confronts the climate....2021-07-10T02:16+0200alternet-23b7d8d4fa27d8438b1dcbea45f09bd420210710021600Report: Great Lakes region needs $2B for flood repairshttps://finance-commerce.com/2021/07/report-great-lakes-region-needs-2b-for-flood-repairs/In this Dec. 4, 2019, erosion reaches a house along Lake Michigan’s southwestern shoreline in Stevensville, Michigan. Great Lakes levels fluctuate annually with the seasons and historically experience prolonged high- and low-water periods. But scientists say the warming climate may be making those multiyear swings more abrupt and extreme.2021-07-10T00:27+0200finance-commerce-fb782ca086e759866d219460ea09668820210710002700Elsa hammers East Coast with heavy rain and wind: Latest forecasthttps://abcnews.go.com/US/tropical-storm-elsa-moves-east-coast-bringing-flash/story?id=78748097More than 50 million Americans were under a flash flood watch on Friday as Elsa, now a post-tropical cyclone, batters the East Coast with heavy rainfall and gusty winds. After making landfall in Florida and pummeling the southeastern United States, Elsa is moving north with the eye of the storm....2021-07-09T22:50+0200ABCnews-6cadfedcfe641a73535963a4de53cca020210709225000