266340 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.undrr.org/news/inaugural-womens-leadership-awards-disaster-risk-reduction-granted-fijian-trailblazer-andThe inaugural Women’s International Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (WIN DRR) Leadership Awards have been granted to Ms. Vasiti Soko, Director of the National Disaster Management Office in Fiji, and Dr. Nuraini Rahma Hanifa, an earthquake scientist who founded U-INSPIRE Alliance which brings....2021-10-13T07:40+0200undrr-214edee74bca79f4a44e2df483ad163e20211013074000https://tribune.com.pk/story/2324493/green-jobsU nder the Billion-Tree Tsunami Project, Pakistan plans to plant one billion trees by 2023 to regenerate degraded lands and, in the process, to provide the much-needed employment to its burgeoning population. The country has a mere 5% forest cover compared with the global average of 31%.2021-10-13T06:54+0200tribune-87a4e4d4d5120abedcd45d1404a02cb320211013065400https://mb.com.ph/2021/10/13/strong-quake-strikes-off-greeces-crete/The quake — the second strong tremor to hit Greece’s largest island in just over two weeks — struck at 0924 GMT with an epicentre in the sea 405 kilometres (250 miles) southeast of Athens and 24 kilometres from the village of Zakros, the Observatory said in a statement. It had a depth of less than nine kilometres, the observatory said.2021-10-13T00:58+0200mb-com-ph-5436e4e2a33f4f257f5aa22c9b12388e20211013005800https://www.dhakatribune.com/world/europe/2021/10/12/6-3-magnitude-quake-strikes-off-greek-island-of-creteIt comes two weeks after a strong 5.8-magnitude quake killed one person, injured 10 and damaged buildings on Crete. A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the Greek island of Crete Tuesday, the Athens Observatory said, with initial media reports suggesting no one was hurt.2021-10-13T00:22+0200dhakatribune-ab348b777660af39d60e167ff482a06a20211013002200