80120 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.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/09/27/drought-land-degradation-eroding-africas-economy-says-unccd/Bennett Oghifo. The African continent has lost 65% of its productive land over the last 70 years, while the population has grown by 600% and with a certainty that Climate change will further accelerate this disruption. The Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations....2022-09-27T01:29+0200thisdayonline-d77fdabe2bb08dd883c12ce19dd1890620220927012900https://www.unocha.org/story/daily-noon-briefing-highlights-niger-cerf-ukraine-and-haitiAerial shot of Ouallam camp in Niger. Photo credit: UNOCHA/Laura Fultang. Daily Noon Briefing Highlights - 16 September 2022. Niger. The UN, in close collaboration with the Government, today launched an anticipatory action response to prevent and mitigate the immediate impact of insufficient rainfall related to drought and climate change.2022-09-17T00:17+0200unocha-52f63900d10d1707769ae4d73a0c68fb20220917001700https://www.breakinglatest.news/world/central-meteorological-observatory-typhoon-meihua-will-land-in-the-coastal-areas-of-northern-zhejiang-and-there-will-be-heavy-rainfall-in-eastern-china/From 08:00 yesterday to 06:00 today, there were heavy to heavy rains in parts of northern Zhejiang, southeastern Jiangsu and other places, and local heavy rains or extremely heavy rains (250-283 mm) in Shaoxing and Ningbo in Zhejiang. Significant rainfall occurred in the Sichuan Basin: From 08:00....2022-09-14T03:07+0200breakinglatest-e47c42e56fa4f3588fdb0a5f82dff56e20220914030700https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/a-glaring-red-flag-europe/A multitude of effects manifesting from anthropomorphic climate change has piled onto Europe in 2022, with record-shattering heat, historic droughts, and massive wildfires wreaking havoc across the continent. On Monday, explained: Much of Europe has been in the grip of a powerful drought, the worst....2022-09-05T17:07+0200alternet-e98305b23843e37eef728d378aba99d520220905170700