520 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://turkishpress.com/floods-kill-5-in-turkeys-black-sea-region/GIRESUN, Turkey The death toll from floods in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Giresun rose to five, the country’s president said Sunday. “According to initial reports, there were five loss of lives and the number of the injured was as many as 12 due to the heavy floods,” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan.2022-04-29T04:07+0200turkishpress-c34ce38f6e0e225d307a6f7ca578ac1520220429040700https://reliefweb.int/report/world/cred-crunch-newsletter-issue-no-66-april-2022-disasters1-year-review-2021In 2021, the Emergency Event Database (EM-DAT) recorded 432 disastrous events related to natural hazards worldwide. Overall, these accounted for 10,492 deaths, affected 101.8 million people and caused approximately 252.1 billion US$ of economic losses2 .2022-04-27T15:20+0200reliefWeb-cfa3bae321b5e79aeb1efc33cadb617720220427152000https://en.mercopress.com/2022/04/26/record-wildfires-and-floods-in-europe-s-2021-summer-the-hottest-on-recordItaly recorded a provisional heat record for the whole of Europe, hitting 48.8 degrees Celsius in Sicily last August. Europe experienced the hottest summer on record in 2021, according to EU scientists in their Copernicus Climate Change Service report. The temperature in Europe was one degree Celsius above the 1991-2020 average.2022-04-26T12:17+0200mercopress-3cecde37ee58813ba7e452b79b038f3020220426121700https://todayheadline.co/death-toll-from-severe-floods-in-northern-turkey-reaches-27-climate-change-news/An 80-year-old woman is reported missing in Bartin province, says the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management, AFAD. Search-and-rescue crews have recovered 10 more bodies overnight, raising the death toll to 27 from the severe floods and mudslides that struck northern Turkey.2022-04-10T16:40+0200todayheadline-3d6b5e57f65f3501878bd66134241f1220220410164000