262120 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.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2022/copernicus-emergency-management-service-releases-glofas-v40A new, substantially upgraded hydrological reanalysis dataset of the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) from 1980 to July 2022 has been produced by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission in collaboration with ECMWF and released as part of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS).2022-11-17T00:54+0100ecmwf-ae5b6b16e8853d6e66865831981731b920221117005400https://digitpatrox.com/which-states-have-had-the-most-major-climate-disasters-since-2011/Ninety p.c of counties throughout the U.S. have skilled a flood, wildfire, hurricane or different federally declared local weather catastrophe between 2011 and 2021, in keeping with a report printed Wednesday that requires pressing funding in local weather adaptation and hazard mitigation.2022-11-17T00:10+0100digitpatrox-a43eada9a86c982789268190f14a36d020221117001000https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC2211/S00029/new-research-hopes-to-save-lives-by-predicting-landslide-dams.htmLandslide dams form when debris from a landslide blocks a river channel. This creates a large dam that backfills into the upstream valley and eventually bursts. This is known as ‘outburst flooding’, and can have devastating impacts on communities, destroying homes and infrastructure.2022-11-17T00:05+0100scoop-co-nz-37d104cda7818d14f9533a2070a37fd420221117000500https://yubanet.com/regional/nevada-county-included-in-cal-oes-state-funding-through-prepare-california-match-program/Sacramento – As part of the state’s ongoing efforts to increase community resilience in areas of the state more prone to natural disasters, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) today announced the first round of awardees for the Prepare California ‘Match’ Program amounting to over $15 million in state funding.2022-11-16T23:56+0100yubanet-a9f2737bd37da8329b7bcf014785781e20221116235600