693250 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://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/massive-infrastructure-project-proposed-by-central-government-threatens-great-nicobar-island/article65991977.eceAt the southernmost extent of India, off the eastern coast, Great Nicobar Island (GNI) is a tropical oasis in the Andaman Sea. This modest biogeographical marvel of 910 square kilometres is the last of 572 islands that make up the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. Historically, this island was inhabited by the Nicobarese and the Shompen communities.2022-10-20T07:23+0200frontline-cdc99e5cb91576268f263af48421c8f720221020072300https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2022/10/20/mil-osi-new-zealand-emergency-readiness-shakeout-our-national-earthquake-drill-is-one-week-away/Source: National Emergency Management. New Zealand ShakeOut, our national earthquake drill and tsunami hikoi, is happening on 27 October at 9:30am. Over 600,000 people across the motu are now signed up to practice the correct actions to take in an earthquake and tsunami. Signups so far include over 1500 businesses, 2500 schools and 4600 households.2022-10-20T06:52+0200foreignaffairs-nz-80f58e24ad337e24a6bf6b26f4b8ca0920221020065200https://www.gexperience.it/lasteroide-che-ha-spazzato-via-i-dinosauri-ha-causato-un-megatsunami/Sessantasei milioni di anni fa, un asteroide largo nove miglia si scontrò con la Terra, innescando un’estinzione di massa che spazzò via la maggior parte dei dinosauri e tre quarti delle specie animali e vegetali del pianeta. Ora stiamo imparando che anche il cosiddetto asteroide Chicxulub ha....2022-10-20T06:42+0200gexperience-fd02b97f5f0691f539351678816ca20920221020064200https://www.infobae.com/noticias/2022/10/20/sayula-de-aleman-veracruz-registra-sismo-de-44-de-magnitud/Un sismo de 4.4 de magnitud se registró en las cercanías de Sayula de Alemán a las 21:39 hora local (2:39 UTC) de hoy, según el Servicio Sismológico Nacional (SSN). Información preliminar señala que el epicentro del temblor fue a 47 km al suroeste de la ciudad del estado de Veracruz y tuvo una profundidad de 129 km.2022-10-20T05:21+0200infobae-7895f6fe4914b007783e1ff18b1442b820221020052100