26730 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.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/552566/papua-new-guinea-magnitude-51-offshore-earthquake-occurs-near-new-britain-island-at-around-1141-dec-4Event. A magnitude-5.1 offshore earthquake occurred near New Britain Island at around 11:41 Dec. 4. The epicenter was about 193 km (120 miles) southeast of Kimbe. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles), and light shaking was probably felt throughout the island.2021-12-04T04:02+0100garda-com-094d04d939599698b7b1c8436b69d6f120211204040200https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/scientists-find-coastal-marine-species-living-among-trash-in-open-ocean-1.5693406Marine creatures and plants typically found in coastal regions have found new ways to survive in the open ocean by colonizing plastic pollution, scientists say. A new study , published on Thursday in the journal Nature Communications, has found coastal marine species inhabiting floating trash after....2021-12-04T02:30+0100ctvnews-747041f0229820463f659ae6394fb67220211204023000https://www.popsci.com/science/great-pacific-garbage-patch-coastal-species/Every year, at least 14 million tons of plastic garbage enter the world’s oceans and cause all kinds of problems for the wildlife that eat, suffocate on, or become entangled within it. There’s also another consequence of all this trash for marine habitats that’s been mostly overlooked until now, scientists reported this week.2021-12-03T22:50+0100popsci-a9e823a68cb942928c8fac879e28304b20211203225000https://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/wfp-responds-tremors-caused-security-crisis-haitiAfter the earthquake which devastated the country in August, a longstanding problem persists. Elise Gibergues-Newton. The World Food Programme wasted no time in responding when, on 14 August, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti’s southern peninsula, killing more than 2,200 people, leaving up to 12,000 injured.2021-12-03T21:53+0100reliefWeb-2937c11cdbadba715546e3e966b949a120211203215300