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Tuesday, January 5, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 TOXICS 

1) Seattle Daily Journal of  Commerce, January 5, 1999  Endangered frogs
adopt a toxic dump  SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) -- Endangered red-legged frogs
have made a home at the closed Casmalia Resources toxic waste dump, causing
headaches for those trying to clean up nearly 500 million gallons of waste.
The frog is listed as threatened under the Federal Endangered Species Act,...

2) AMERISCAN: JANUARY 4, 1999  TOXIC RELEASE REPORTING EXPANDED The public's
right to know about toxic chemicals released into local communities is being
expanded by almost 25 percent. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) has proposed a rule which would require more reporting of
environmental releases of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals,...

3) 01/05 Taiwan-Waste Export By ANNIE HUANG TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) --  A
scandal blamed for five deaths in Cambodia has raised a troubling
question in Taiwan: Where are the island's industrialists dumping
their toxic waste? Nobody has many answers. But the recent incident
in which Taiwan's chemical giant, Formosa Plastics Corp., shipped
3,000 tons of mercury-laden waste to...

4) Financial Times (London) January 5, 1999 LONDON EDITION 1 SECTION: INSIDE
TRACK; Pg. 14 HEADLINE: Formula for a fresh focus: ENVIRONMENT GREEN
CHEMISTRY NETWORK: Chemical products which are kind to the environment are
the priority of a new initiative, writes Simon Hadlington  BODY: British
chemistry is to be given a green hue with the launch early this year of the...

5) Inter Press Service January  5, 1999, Tuesday HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENT-INDIA:
PLASTIC BAGS MENACE TOWNS AND CITIES BYLINE: By  Naunidhi Kaur DATELINE: NEW
DELHI, Jan. 5  BODY: The virtually indestructible plastic bag has become the
bane of poor developing countries like India and Bangladesh where
governments battling on many fronts have  let the menace of polybags grow....

6) 01/04 Reuters SPANISH ECOLOGISTS COMPLAIN AFTER TOXIC SPILL MADRID-
Spanish ecologists accused two chemical companies on Monday of
environmental crimes after they accidentally released at least 50,000
cubic metres of acidic water into a river in southern Spain last
week.   The fertiliser companies Fertiberia and Foret said the water
that escaped when a waste reservoir...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

7) 01/05 German Govt Says Claims It Will Quit Nuclear Treaties F BONN
(Dow Jones)--The German government denied Tuesday reports in the U.K.
press that Environment Minister Juergen Trittin plans to cancel the
treaties with the U.K. government about storing nuclear material.
Trittin doesn't have the intention nor ever said that he intends to
cancel the treaties," the...

8) NUCLEAR WASTE TRANSPORT CANCELLED IN BULGARIA  SOFIA, Bulgaria, January
4, 1999 (ENS) - The Bulgarian nuclear industry has cancelled its plan
to transport nuclear waste to Russia, officials of the country's
committee on the use of nuclear power for peaceful purposes said
December 22.  In the autumn of 1998, an intergovernmental agreement
for the nuclear waste...

9) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts January 6, 1999 HEADLINE: Atomic Energy
Minister Adamov investigates Siberian spent fuel dumping conflict SOURCE:
Text of report by Radio Russia on 5th January  [Presenter] Russian Atomic
Energy Minister Yevgeniy Adamov has begun his working visit to Krasnoyarsk
Territory. Our correspondent reports by telephone. [Correspondent] Russian...

10) AP Worldstream January 05, 1999 HEADLINE: Russian nuclear chief argues for
accepting nuclear waste Russia-Nuclear Waste DATELINE: MOSCOW BODY: Russia's
nuclear energy chief urged a Siberian governor Tuesday to accept Ukrainian
nuclear  waste, saying his refusal could jeopardize Russia's position as a
waste storage site. Yevgeny Adamov met in Krasnoyarsk with Gov. Alexander...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

11) 01/05 1023  Vietnam War Napalm To Destroyed FALLBROOK, Calif. (AP) --
More than 3 million gallons of napalm that's been stored at a San
Diego naval station since the Vietnam War is going to be shipped to
Louisiana to be destroyed. The plan announced Monday may solve a
longstanding problem for the Navy. Over the years, it has dealt with
everything from an infestation...

12) Russian specialists obtain fuel from weapons ... ULYANOVSK, January 5
(Itar-Tass) - The original "dry" technology of turning weapons plutonium
into fuel for nuclear reactors has been  developed and put into practice for
the first time ever by specialists from the Research Institute of Nuclear
Reactors in the city of Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region. They have already...

13) Japan considering helping Russia with radioactive...TOKYO, January 5 (Itar-
Tass) - The Japanese government is considering assisting Russia in disposal
of decommissioned nuclear-propelled submarines, a Japanese Foreign Ministry
offical told Itar-Tass on  Tuesday. He said Tokyo's possible moves were too
early to specify, but a special delegation will be sent to Russia to look at...

14) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: India must clearly spell out nuclear policy:
US envoy DATELINE: NEW DELHI, Jan 5  BODY: India must specify in "concrete
terms" the number of missiles and warheads it needs to ensure its security
or risk being viewed as a regional threat, US Ambassador Richard Celeste
said Tuesday.    Celeste told the Press Trust of India that New Delhi, which...

15) The Guardian (London) January  5, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Leader Pages;
Pg. 16 BODY: BEFORE the Ramadan bombing fades into media oblivion, swamped
by important New Labour resignations, it is worth recalling the good news.
The United States and its ally Britain did not drop nuclear weapons on Iraq.
They only used 'conventional' explosives fired from Tornado aircraft or...

 OCEANS 

(GREENPEACE)
16) Aberdeen Press and Journal January 4, 1999 SECTION: Environment: Pollution,
Pg.1 HEADLINE: Protection demanded after  Orkney spillage BYLINE: By Craig
Mcgill BODY: AN ORKNEY councillor has demanded protection for the isles
following the spillage of more than 400 barrels of oil-based drilling fluid
just off the coastline at the weekend.  Jim Foubister says the area and its...

17) The Daily Yomiuri January 6, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 3 HEADLINE: Fight on to save
wetland BYLINE: Hisao Aoki Yomiuri Shimbun Photographer; Yomiuri DATELINE:
NAGOYA Society BODY: A civic group began the new year with a pledge to
strengthen their opposition to the Nagoya municipal government's plans to
build a garbage disposal site on the Fujimae Higata wetland in Aichi...

18) The New York Times January  5, 1999 Late Edition-Final SECTION: F; Page
1; Column 1; Science Desk HEADLINE: Search for Missing Otters Turns
Up a Few Surprises BYLINE: WILLIAM K. STEVENS BODY: Sea otters are
appealing, no doubt about it. In recent decades they have cruised the
cold waters off the Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan mainland in
robust numbers, like crowds of...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

(GREENPEACE)
19) GLOBE AND MAIL MON JAN.04,1999 PAGE: A ILLUS) BYLINE: MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
CLASS: News DATELINE: Fat and famous, Churchill polar bears going hungry
Global warming believed responsible as Hudson Bay animals losing weight.
Later freezeup, earlier breakup are reducing their ice time. The polar bears
living on western Hudson Bay are Canada's best-known population of the huge...

20) Vic: Australia's record high bad news for global warming:  ACF BYLINE: By
Heather Gallagher  BODY: MELBOURNE, Jan 5 AAP - Australia in 1998 had the
hottest average temperature since records began earlier this century, the
Bureau of Meteorology said today. Figures from the Bureau's National Climate
Centre show an Australian average of 22.54 degrees last year, the highest...

21) Western Europe basks in freak weather BODY: PARIS, Jan 5 (AFP) - Much of
western Europe basked Tuesday in spring-like weather that saw temperatures
climb to an all-time record but raised concern among farmers fearing for
crops, and left ski resort owners praying for snow. The temperature in the
French capital reached an all-time record of 16 degrees Celsius (59...

22) 01/05  U.S. Midwest gripped by cold, travel woes continue By Andrew
Stern CHICAGO (Reuters) - Arctic cold gripped the snowy Midwest
Tuesday, creating havoc for commuters, rupturing water mains and
hampering firefighting efforts. Thousands of Chicago commuters
shivering in frigid  temperatures packed train and bus stops in an
often vain attempt to get to  work, while...

23) Anchorage Daily News January 5, 1999 Alaska charts a warm year across
state Temperature's rising, Alaska figures show By SHEILA TOOMEY Daily News
reporter With Anchorage thermometers reading zero by flashlight on a
post-holiday Monday morning it was hard to worry about the world  heating
up, but year-end temperature tallies indicate Alaska was unusually  warm in...

24) The Ottawa Citizen January 5, 1999 A4 Last year hottest on record:
Environment Canada says every month of '98 was above normal BY Tom Spears
The year just ended was the warmest ever recorded across the country,
Environment Canada says.  Helped by this balmy December, Canada's 1998
weather checked in at 2.5 degrees above normal nationwide -- a full...

25) ASIA PULSE HEADLINE: BEIJING TAKES STRICTER STEPS TO CURB CAR  POLLUTION
DATELINE: BEIJING, Jan 5  BODY: Beijing has adopted stricter measures to
curb car  pollution,  a major source of its deteriorating air that has
caused concerns among the residents. More than 60 cars not conforming to
Beijing's new local standards for tail-gas emissions have recently had their...

26) 01/04/99  French City Uses Bikes To Cut Smog French City Uses Bikes
To Cut Smog BORDEAUX, France (AP) Let them ride bikes, the mayor  of
Bordeaux says. In an effort to reduce the amount of hot air produced
by bureaucrats, the mayor made 20 bicycles available Monday for city
officials to use on official business instead of cars.  ``Very often,
elected officials or...

27) WIND POWER FASTEST GROWING ENERGY SOURCE  By Christopher Flavin WASHINGTON,
DC, January 4, 1999 (ENS) The world added 2,100 megawatts of new wind energy
generating capacity in 1998, a new all-time record, and 35 percent more than
was added in 1997, according to preliminary estimates by the Worldwatch
Institute.  The new wind turbines added in 1998 have pushed overall wind...

28) Financial Times (London) January  5, 1999 LONDON EDITION 1 SECTION: INSIDE
TRACK; Pg. 14 HEADLINE: The heat beneath  our feet: TECHNOLOGY GREEN
BUILDINGS: Techniques for tapping water from  under the ground can lead to
big cuts in a company's energy costs, writes David Lawson  BODY: When does a
boring project become an exciting breakthrough? When it involves a...

29) The Guardian (London) January  5, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Foreign Pages;
Pg. 12 HEADLINE: Clashes over oilfields 'kill 30' BYLINE: Chris McGreal in
Johannesburg  BODY: NIGERIA'S military government has lifted a state of
emergency in Bayelsa state after sending troops to defend oil installations
from a sabotage campaign by communities demanding a share of revenue....

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

30) AP Worldstream Jan 05, 1999HEADLINE: Vegetarians urge less meat eating to
increase world peace DATELINE: BANGKOK, Thailand BODY: Hoping to boost world
peace, vegetarians plan to urge people to give up meat-eating during a
ceremony on the eve of the new millennium, a participant at a vegetarian
conference in Thailand said Tuesday. Nearly 200 delegates from around the...

31) Inter Press Service January  5, 1999, Tuesday HEADLINE: WILDLIFE-NEPAL:
EXPERTS SAY TIGERS STILL ON ENDANGERED LIST  BYLINE: By Suman Pradhan
DATELINE: KATHMANDU, Jan. 5  BODY: Twenty five  years ago, Nepal's first
wildlife protected area, the Royal Chitwan  National Park, was born out of a
determined government policy to protect  and conserve its abundant wildlife....

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

32) The Economic Times, January 5, 1999 Scientists, Greens debate efficacy of
Bollgard cotton TV Satyanarayanan NEW DELHI 4 JANUARY THE raging controversy
over the US seed company Monsanto's field trials of its Bollgard cotton in
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh has put scientists and environmentalists at
loggerheads on the efficacy of Bollgard Cotton technology.     Whether...

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