2210 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.kompas.id/baca/english/2024/05/21/en-krisis-demokrasi-perparah-krisis-air?open_from=Section_EnglishDOKUMENTASI BASARNAS MAKASSAR. Aerial photo showing flooded areas in Sidrap Regency, South Sulawesi, Friday (3/5/2024). The month of May 2024 was colored with days full of disasters in this country. At least 15 people died and thousands were evacuated due to floods and landslides that hit several districts in South Sulawesi on Friday (3/5/2024).2024-05-22T01:03+0200kompas-id-824e43e5904d47d3c42ea12f8e032cca20240522010300https://thecostaricanews.com/el-ninoand-climate-change-caused-record-disasters-in-latin-america-during-2023-according-to-the-world-meteorological-organization/The El Niño phenomenon and the effects of global warming due to human activity caused a record of climate disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a UN agency, indicated this past Wednesday. Last year was the warmest on record in the region,....2024-05-16T15:25+0200thecostaricanews-c7148e6085e92e59b7e89d3992be490d20240516152500https://en.mercopress.com/2024/05/13/latam-and-caribbean-hit-hard-by-crises-stemming-from-el-nino-and-climate-change-according-to-wmoRio Grande do Sul's “catastrophe is a tragic reminder of how increasingly intense and frequent climate hazards undermine socioeconomic development,” Saulo explained. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) pointed out last week that Latin America and the Caribbean were going through a series of....2024-05-13T14:07+0200mercopress-7d8706de2b34d295a7ff76717bd5ebc620240513140700https://www.rediff.com/news/report/38100-hectares-of-tree-cover-lost-to-forest-fires/20240513.htmThe devastating forest fires in Uttarakhand, captured by satellite images, have brought widespread attention to the extensive destruction they have caused. This attention comes alongside ongoing litigation around managing forest fires. In India, the peak fire season typically begins in late February and spans about 12 weeks.2024-05-13T06:29+0200rediff-82b804d43877d05b3348a1c7a2162c9220240513062900