123261GDACS EMM News Feed 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 U.N. official display how better preparation has shrunk disaster deaths despite worsening climatehttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/1/un-official-display-how-better-preparation-has-shr/As climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally because of better warning, planning and resilience, a top United Nations official said.2024-06-01T22:54+0200washtimes-12949f2c01ad50abeacfa258e875789c20240601225400Flash flood, heatwave go togetherhttps://www.newagebd.net/post/country/236655/flash-flood-heatwave-go-togetherPeople on Saturday move house at Shahjalal Upashahar in Sylhet city submerged in flash flood rendering thousands of people homeless, many of whom are moving to higher places. | Star Mail photo. A heatwave set in over 16 districts on Saturday, while heavy rain induced flash flood raged through the north-eastern districts of Sylhet and Sunamganj.2024-06-01T21:01+0200newagebd-c94b73513415b82ca50611b97eb5da2920240601210100U.N. official highlights how better preparation has shrunk disaster deaths despite worsening climatehttps://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-06-01/u-n-official-highlights-how-better-preparation-has-shrunk-disaster-deaths-despite-worsening-climateAs climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally because of better warning, planning and resilience, a top United Nations official said.2024-06-01T18:53+0200latimes-f3464dfe9e40bfd585029682356debf820240601185300UN official highlights how better preparation has shrunk disaster deaths despite worsening climatehttps://mb.com.ph/2024/6/1/un-official-highlights-how-better-preparation-has-shrunk-disaster-deaths-despite-worsening-climateFILE - A polling official enjoys a cooling spray of water under intense heat at a distribution venue for Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and other election material on the eve of the fifth phase of polling in the six-week-long national election in Lucknow, India, Sunday, May 19, 2024.2024-06-01T13:43+0200mb-com-ph-a4bc0efa66f838ed5018faefd7f7350220240601134300