142340 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.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40400-5To produce the multi-hazard event sets, we require information on where and when a hazard occurred by using single hazard event data. Each single hazard footprint consists of a polygon that represents the spatial extent where the hazard occurred (hereinafter referred to as event polygon).2023-08-23T20:28+0200nature-Earth-and-Environmental-Sciences-1e33c964a79291251578b3fcda2f49c620230823202800https://smartwatermagazine.com/news/world-meteorological-organization/climate-change-impacts-increase-south-west-pacificWeather-related disasters and climate change impacts are unravelling the fabric of society in the South-West Pacific. Sea level rise threatens the future of low-lying islands whilst increasing ocean heat and acidification harms vital and vulnerable marine ecosystems , according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).2023-08-22T12:25+0200smartwatermagazine-ab38c36568e8cd93031d9d9ad262b41620230822122500https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/natural-disasters-in-south-west-pacific-caused-close-to-9-billion-in-economic-damage-in-2022-wmo-91266Extreme weather events in South-West Pacific led to economic damages to the tune of close to $8.7 billion in 2022 compared to $5.7 billion in 2021, according to a report released by World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Though the number of disasters reported in the region in 2022 decreased by....2023-08-22T07:17+0200downtoearth-0d0bf933de954a5d00aef86b4728bb5c20230822071700https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/pacific/pacific-island-nations-rising-seal-level-08212023100819.htmlreport released on Friday. The Pacific islands most vulnerable to this rising sea level include nations such as Kiribati, Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands, and the Maldives. These low-lying nations, often no more than a few meters above sea level, are alarmingly at the forefront of this crisis.2023-08-21T18:15+0200benarnews-6343e3becd6dc198762d4dfd3af3673d20230821181500