Global News Headlines 01/24

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Sunday, January 24, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
1) The New York Times Jan 24, 1999, Late Edition  - Final SECTION: Section
14; Page 4; Column 2; The City Weekly Desk HEADLINE: NEW YORKERS &
CO.; New York Lends a Hand To Ailing 'Eco' Cleaners BYLINE: JULIAN E.
BARNES BODY: LAST November, the TriBeCa Ecomat, a cleaner that
shunned a potentially carcinogenic solvent used by most dry-cleaning
companies, closed its doors....

(GREENPEACE)
2) IPS HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENT: GROUPS WANT U.S. WASTE SENT BACK FROM SOUTH
AFRICA BYLINE: By Danielle Knight DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 BODY: A
coalition of environmental groups want hazardous mercury waste sent during
apartheid to South Africa by U.S. corporations to be returned to the United
States. Starting in the 1980s, American Cyanamid, Louisiana-based Borden...

3) Viruses from sewage pollute oceans, experts say By Maggie Fox ANAHEIM,
Calif., Jan 22 (Reuters) Americans are literally flushing untold numbers of
viruses into their coastal waters every time they use the toilet, scientists
said on Friday. They have found alarming evidence that nasty bugs usually
found in feces are winding up right offshore within hours of being flushed....

4) Sudan-Health DDT Found In Sudanese Women's Milk KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA,
01/ 24/99) Ecologists in Sudan are warning against the use of
pesticides which in some cases have caused the chemical DDT to be
found in the milk of mothers. Dr. Assim Maghrabi, a critic of the
misuse of these chemicals, stated that "a recent study has proved the
presence of DDT in proportions in...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

(GREENPEACE)
5) Russian ministry in nuclear waste scandal: Greenpeace AMSTERDAM, Jan 23
(AFP) - Russia's Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov is seeking lucrative
"rogue" contracts with European and Asian nations to treat their nuclear
waste, environmental group Greenpeace said here Saturday. The contracts
concerned nuclear waste from Germany, Spain, Switzerland, South Korea,...

(GREENPEACE)
6) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Germany denies sending nuclear waste to
Russia DATELINE: BONN, Jan 24 BODY: Germany's environment ministry dismissed
Sunday as "absurd" a claim by the environmental organisation Greenpeace that
Bonn COULD send nuclear waste to Russia for reprocessing. Greenpeace said
Saturday that Moscow was seeking lucrative "rogue" contracts  with European...

7) German nuclear industry hangs tough before talks with Schroeder DATELINE:
BODY: By Celine Le Prioux BONN, Jan 24 (AFP) Leaders of Germany's power
companies were hanging tough before talks Monday with Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder on the government's plans to abandon  nuclear  energy. Schroeder
on Sunday reiterated his goal to phase out  nuclear  energy. That is the...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

8) The Toronto Star Jan 23, 1999, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS HEADLINE: LEAKY
BORDERS THREATEN WORLD SECURITY BYLINE: Black market nukes First of two
parts Steve Goldstein BODY: Nuclear proliferation a desperate situation,
authorities warn SPECIAL TO THE STAR MOSCOW - It was an arrest that should
have been reason for rejoicing.  Turkish customs agents in Istanbul arrested...

 OCEANS 

(GREENPEACE)
9) 01/22 Antarctic Treaty Nations To Meet By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) For the first time, delegates from nations
involved in determining the future of Antarctica plan to meet on the
frozen continent, a sign of how Antarctica is becoming more
accessible -- and more vulnerable -- to the rest of the world.
Delegates and ministers from most of the 26...

10) Florida coral reefs illness accelerates By ED SUSMAN  UPI Science News
ANAHEIM, Calif., Jan. 22 (UPI) New marine diseases -- some of which defy
scientific description -- continue to destroy the commercially and
ecologically important Florida Keys coral reef. Scientists said today more
than half of the 160 monitoring stations at 40 sites in the keys show damage...

11) ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: JANUARY 22, 1999 OCEANS HOLD HEALTH
TREASURES Oceans Hold Health Treasures The world's oceans harbor a wide
variety of organisms that show promise for providing new drugs to combat
cancer and fight infectious diseases, according to a new report by a
committee of the National Research Council, "From Monsoons to Microbes:...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

12) Bangladesh Plans to Phase Out Auto-rickshaws in Dhaka  DHAKA (Jan. 24)
XINHUA - The Bangladeshi government is planning to phase out two-stroke-
engine vehicles from Dhaka city by the year 2001 instead of 2003, in a bid
to protect the environment, the Independent daily newspaper reported Sunday.
Last year, the government decided to phase out the  auto-rickshaws by  2003,...

13) The Ottawa Citizen January 24, 1999 Final News B8 Antarctic ice holds
clues to history: Three-year drilling project  yields  samples 80,000 years
old BY Robert Boyd  SIPLE DOME, Antarctica -- Antarctic scientistsachieved a
significant advance here this weekend in an effort to understand Earth's
past and predict its future.  After three years of arduous toil, drillers...

14) The New York Times Jan 24, 1999, Late Edition  - Final SECTION: 4; Page
4; Column 1; Week in Review Desk HEADLINE: The World; A New Big-Power
Race Starts on a Sea of Crude BYLINE: STEPHEN KINZER DATELINE:
ISTANBUL  BODY: WITH the discovery of great energy reserves in
countries around the Caspian Sea, a vast new region has catapulted
onto the world stage. It not only...

15) CTK National News Wire 200 DEMONSTRATE AGAINST SHELL IN BRNO BYLINE: TAM
DATELINE: BRNO, Jan 23; (TAM) KEYWORD: 'Czech Nigeria environment protest
Shell'  BODY: About 200 young people gathered near  a filling station
belonging to the Shell company in Brno today to protest against practices of
the international oil company. We don't like  Shell's policy in Nigeria,"...

16) $177 MILLION FOUND FOR DHAKA AIR CRISIS  By Ahmed Faruque Hassan  DHAKA,
Bangladesh, January 22, 1999 (ENS) A Dhaka Urban Transport Project has been
launched by the government of Bangladesh and the Dhaka city corporation to
reduce the traffic problems that have reached crisis proportions in the
nation's capital. The International Development Association (IDA), the World...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

17) The Ottawa Citizen January 24, 1999 Final The Citizen's Weekly C9 Spirit
bears: In a moist, magical place on Canada's West Coast, rare white bears
roam free in the rain forest. But they may be in for a big surprise: Loggers
want to go down to the woods today BY Pamela Coulston Only after the Last
Tree has been cut down,  Only after the Last River has been poisoned,  Only...

18) Vancouver Sun Jan 23, 1999 Final News A3 UN designation sought for
Clayoquot: Ottawa to announce plans today to pour money into the community
application. BY Kelly Sinoski The federal government will announce today its
plans to pour "many millions" of dollars into a community application to the
United Nations to designate Clayoquot Sound as a "biosphere site."...

19) Business Times (Malaysia) January 23, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 1 HEADLINE:
Timber trade ruling on sustainability may have to be shelved BYLINE: Fadzil
Ghazali  BODY: THE International Tropical Timber Organisation (Itto) may
have to put on hold its earlier commitment to halt international trading of
"unsustainable" timber products by the  year 2000. The world timber trade...

20) VIC: Anti-logging protests endanger safety: forest union BODY: MELBOURNE,
Jan 24 AAP - A forest industry union today warned anti-logging protesters
their actions were endangering the safety of loggers in the Otway Ranges,
south-west of Melbourne. The union warned that its members were prepared to
hit back with so-far-unspecified action. "Workers have had enough," Jane...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

21) 01/24 EU TO CONSIDER GENETICALLY-MODIFIED ANIMAL FEED By Alison
Little, Chief Political Correspondent, PA News Officials from the
EU's 15 member states will shortly consider an application to sell a
genetically modified ingredient for animal feed, it was disclosed
today. Officials at the Ministry of Agriculture animal feed unit last
week met to consider an...

22) 01/24 CAMPAIGNERS WARN OF DANGERS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD By
Martin Hickman and Alison Little, Political Staff, PA News Plans to
feed cattle genetically-modified food could lead to a BSE-style
crisis of confidence in British meat, environmental campaigners
warned today. Friends of the Earth urged the Government to ban all GM
animal feed for five years after it was...

 OTHER 

23) The Irish Times January 23, 1999, CITY EDITION SECTION: NEWS FEATURES; Pg.
10 HEADLINE: Unease as Iceland sells its entire DNA Iceland has just
sold the rights to the genetic code of its entire population. 
Genetic vampirism or the glorious dawn of the new gene information
age? Kevin O'Sullivan investigates BODY: The extent of the deal is
breathtaking. For $ 200...

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