10470GDACS 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 India: da ADB 251 mln per la gestione delle inondazioni nelle aree urbanehttps://esgdata.it/india-da-adb-251-mln-per-la-gestione-delle-inondazioni-nelle-aree-urbane/La Banca Asiatica di Sviluppo (ADB) ha approvato un prestito di 251 mln di dollari per la protezione e la gestione delle inondazioni urbane nel bacino del fiume Chennai-Kosasthalaiyar in India. La rapida urbanizzazione di Chennai ha invaso il paesaggio naturale della città, riducendo i corpi idrici e la capacità di ritenzione dell’acqua.2021-09-23T15:04+0200esgdata-550f389199f88f2d04644d3493885b3c20210923150400To Prepare Cities For Extreme Rainfall Events, A Paradigm Shift Is Overduehttps://earth.org/extreme-rainfall-events/For many years, scientists have considered unpredictable and extreme rainfall patterns as a likely long-term effect of climate change. While this has yet to be written as evidential truth, the devastating effects of increased rainfall are already forcing cities and communities to act on what they do....2021-09-23T02:28+0200earth-org-806099c87fe0be094df1751bd98d5ee220210923022800On the world’s largest river island in Assam, floating farms are boosting flood resilience Instead of growing plants in sponge beds, many Majuli residents are cultivating vegetables in grow bags on rafts. Gurvinder Singh · An hour agohttps://scroll.in/article/1005271/on-the-worlds-largest-river-island-in-assam-floating-farms-are-boosting-flood-resilienceFor the past few months, Rombha Payeng has had fewer worries on her mind. The 33-year-old homemaker and farmer is able to feed organic vegetables to her two young daughters. Not long ago this was an inaccessible luxury for the family. Payeng lives on Majuli, the largest river island in the world.2021-09-21T19:18+0200scroll-in-5d2856ed1d2a0587565094d9672ddcaa20210921191800Assam’s wild water buffalo is in troubled waters because of habitat loss Listed as ‘endangered’ since 1986, the animal faces multiple threats in Assam. Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya & Jyotirmoy Saharia · 20 minutes agohttps://scroll.in/article/1005807/assams-wild-water-buffalo-is-in-troubled-watersWild Buffalo in Kaziranga National Park India. Experts say that the pure breed of wild buffalo in India is now left only in Assam and Chhattisgarh. | Ullasa Kodandaramaiah/Wikimedia Commons [Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License] Describing the abundance of the wild water....2021-09-21T10:20+0200scroll-in-275ba20725277efd1542e7eb44e7165720210921102000