Global News Headlines 07/05

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Monday, July 5, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 TOXICS 

(GREENPEACE)
1) EU attacked over precautionary principle ENDS Daily-02/07/ The EU's growing
adoption of the precautionary principle in consumer and environmental
policy-making is contributing to a "retreat from reason" and a "paralysing
sensitivity to risk," according to a pamphlet published today by the
European Science and Environment Forum (ESEF), a UK-based "anti-ecologist"...

(GREENPEACE)
2) German agency calls for soft PVC phase-out ENDS Daily - 02/07/99 The use of
flexible PVC should be phased out because harmful plasticising agents can't
be prevented from leaching from it and alternatives are unavailable,
according to a new German environment agency study.  The agency is the
second such EU body to push for a ban on soft PVC after similar calls by...

3) The Toronto Star July  5, 1999, Monday, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS HEADLINE:
FOOD SAFETY CAN'T BE COMPROMISED  BODY: Ontarians were warned this week to
wash all imported fruits and vegetables with soap and water after four
people in York Region got sick from food infected with cyclospora. The
parasite, which lives in fecal matter, causes gut- wrenching symptoms that...

4) THE INDEPENDENT July 5, HEADLINE: Spectre of arsenic poisoning in Rajshahi,
BYLINE: Sharif Shahabuddin  BODY: In Bangladesh arsenic  poisoning of ground
water has crossed tolerable limits. According to a recent American
television programme, one out of every 10 victims of arsenic pollution in
our country may eventually die. Contamination of  arsenic in the water has...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

5) The Guardian (London) July 5, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Foreign Pages; Pg.11
HEADLINE:Generation split bleeds German Greens BYLINE: Ian Traynor in Berlin
BODY: Ian Traynor in  Berlin A generation war between the  yuppies and
hippies of Germany's  Greens is threatening the  environmentalist party's
first full term in  government. The young  have launched an offensive...

6) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Japanese media alarmed by secrecy over
Chinese  nuclear  trouble DATELINE: TOKYO, July 5  BODY: Japanese media
expressed alarm Monday at a one-year delay in Beijing's revelation of an
accident at China's first homegrown  nuclear  reactor, the 30-megawatt
Qinshan 1. Kyodo News agency, reporting from Beijing late Sunday, said  the...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

7) Agence France Presse July 05, HEADLINE: Progress in research into Agent
Orange's health legacy in Vietnam  DATELINE: HANOI, July 5 BODY: Progress
has been made in research to establish the health effects on Vietnamese of
the United States' use of Agent Orange during the  Vietnam War, an American
scientist said on Monday. Arnold Schecter, professor of environmental...

8) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts July 06, HEADLINE: Aide says India prepared
for eventuality of nuclear "lunacy" Body: [19] Text of report in English by
Indian news agency PTI New Delhi, 4th July: A top aide of Premier Atal
Behari Vajpayee on Sunday [4th July] said India would not be the first to
use the  nuclear  weapons against anyone but if some lunatic tries to do...

9) Pty Limited The Canberra Times July 5, Edition SECTION: Part A; Page 11
HEADLINE: KASHMIR WITH A CAPITAL N; CLASHES BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN IN
THE DISPUTED TERRITORY ARE NOTHING NEW, REPORTS BRIAN CLOUGHLEY, BUT NUCLEAR
WEAPONS COULD CHANGE THE WHOLE COMPLEXION OF THE DISPUTE. BODY: DRAS is a
dirty place, as well as being dangerous. It lies at 3300m on the Indian side...

10) The Times (London) July 5, SECTION: Features HEADLINE: 'A country that
accepts food aid during the winter is not about to spend its last drop of
waning energy on a nuclear stand-off' BYLINE: Anna Blundy BODY: As they
swelter under the most intense heatwave in a hundred years,the last thing
Russians are thinking about is a Cold War. If only it was a bit colder here....

11) THE JOURNAL (Newcastle, UK) July 5, Edition 1 SECTION: REGIONAL NEWS, Pg. 5
HEADLINE:Nuclear protest:Seven arrested BODY: SEVEN protesters were arrested
yesterday after they stopped a convoy they believed to be carrying  nuclear
weapons. The peace activists halted a military vehicle for 45 minutes after
it left a compound at Albemarle Barracks, west of Newcastle, where it had...

 OCEANS 

(GREENPEACE)
12) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence July  3, 1999 Saturday SECTION:Pg.
6 HEADLINE: Warming tipped to ravage Reef SOURCE: The Courier-Mail
BYLINE: John Wright  ABSTRACT: Unless greenhouse  gas-related global
warming is stopped, Great Barrier Reef corals will be  lost. A report
by respected Sydney University scientist, Doctor Ove  Hoegh-Guldgerg,
warns of...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGYY 

(GREENPEACE)
13) "GREEN GAMES" TO COOL ALL VENUES WITH OZONE DEPLETING SUBSTANCES  SYDNEY,
Australia, July 2, 1999 (ENS) - Greenpeace has obtained a confidential
schedule that confirms the Co-ordination Authority for the 2000 Olympics
will not use refrigerants that comply with the Environmental Guidelines in
any of the Olympic venues. Instead, ozone depleting substances will be used...

14) WIND BLOWS POWER INTO CANADA'S ENERGY FUTURE  By Bill Eggertson  OTTAWA,
Ont., Canada, July 2, (ENS)-Wind power could be the largest growing source
of electricity generation in Canada during the next quarter century,
according to a major forecast from the country's National Energy Board
(NEB). "Canadian Energy - Supply and Demand to 2025," surveys hydropower,...

15) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)  July 5, SECTION:
Feature; Pg. 11 HEADLINE: Climate and the Human Factor BYLINE: By William K.
Stevens; New York Times Service BODY:As evidence that the Earth's atmosphere
is warming continues to accumulate, scientists  are making slow progress
toward an answer to the big question raised by the  evidence: How much of...

16) Asahi News Service JULY  5, 1999, Monday HEADLINE: GOVERNMENT SEEKS ANTI-
EMISSION IDEAS BYLINE: KAORUKO SUNAZAWA DATELINE: TOKYO BODY: Attention all
environment lovers. The government wants to bankroll projects that will aid
in curbing greenhouse gas emissions overseas in order to meet an
international requirement to reduce Japan's carbon dioxide emission level by...

17) DPA July 5, HEADLINE: More than 150 dead in floods in China BODY: More than
150,000  people had to be rescued from the worst flooding since
records were kept in  eastern China, reports said Monday. At least
152 people have been killed in the bad weather in the worst-hit
areas, Chinese media reports said. Seven communes and more than
10,000 hectares in Anhui province were...

18) The Guardian (London) July  5, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Art Pages; Pg. 12
HEADLINE: A thing of beauty is a joy for a very long time;Jonathan Glancey
argues that there's much more to  sustainable design than mere energy
conservation  BODY: When you hear  the words 'sustainable  design' or
'sustainable architecture', aside from  slipping on your sandals and...

19) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Alaskans face tough choices as oil reserves
dwindle  BODY: by Jean-Loup Sense ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 5 AFP-With the oil
boom that made them rich slowly going bust, Alaskans must  decide this year
whether to bite the bullet and cut their standard of  living. Oil was
discovered in Alaska's frozen north 30 years ago and  Alaskans have been...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

20) European forest certification formally launched ENDS Daily - 01/07/99
European forest industry organisations have formally launched a
certification scheme for sustainably produced timber which is expected to
compete with the global, environmental NGO-backed Forest Stewardship
Council (FSC). Meeting in Paris yesterday, representatives of 12 national...

21) The San Francisco Chronicle JULY 5, FINAL EDITION SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A20
HEADLINE:  Control-Burn Fire Devastates North State Community BYLINE: Manny
Fernandez,  Chronicle Staff Writer DATELINE: Lewiston, Trinity  County
BODY: About all  that's left of John Berry's dream house in the mountains is
a single Barbie  doll. The doll sat amidst the pile of charcoal,  cinders,...

22) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence July 5, SECTION: Pg.17 HEADLINE:
On the way out SOURCE: The Daily Telegraph BYLINE: Simon Benson ABSTRACT: In
July 1999, 700 plant, animal, and insect species  and ecological communities
are endangered in New South Wales. Since 1 January 1996, there have been 95
additions to the list, and over 60 per cent of the State's original...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
23) Sunday Times (London) July  4, 1999, Sunday SECTION: Features HEADLINE:
Not much of a market for GM  BODY: WE were  rebuked by Professor James
Parry (Guardians of our food, Letters, last  week) for not applying for
membership of his government committee on  chemicals in food, consumer
products and the environment. The fact is  that government regulation  of...

(GREENPEACE)
24) Greenpeace mulls EU legal action over Bt maize ENDS Daily - 02/07/99 Having
halted the approval process for a variety of genetically modified (GM) maize
in May, the European Commission is "obliged" by law to ban two similar maize
varieties that are already authorised in the EU, according to a legal
opinion prepared for Greenpeace.  The group said yesterday that it would sue...

25) ASIA PULSE HEADLINE: US TELLS S KOREA IT IS OPPOSED TO LABELING OF  GMO
PRODUCTS DATELINE: SEOUL, July 5 BODY: The United States has notified South
Korea's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry that it is opposed to the
country's move for separate labeling of  genetically  modified organism
(GMO) in agricultural goods. The ministry said Monday that the U.S....

26) EU surveyors call for "GM land registers" ENDS Daily- 01/07/99 The European
association representing professional advisors on property and land has
warned that growers of genetically modified (GM) crops could face insurance
or public liability claims in future if their crops cross-pollinate those
of neighbouring farmers or if GM crops "become classed as a pollutant"....

 OTHER 

(GREENPEACE)
27) The Age, On-line, 07/06/99, Many strands in the global fabric  By PETER
BERGER THE term `globalisation' has become a cliche. It serves to explain
everything from the woes of the  German coal  industry  to the sexual habits
of Japanese  teenagers. Most  cliches have some validity; so does this. One
can watch CNN  in an African  safari  lodge,  German investors converse in...

28) New Straits Times-Computimes (Malaysia) July 5, SECTION: Outlook issues;
Pg. 29 HEADLINE: Using screen  filters to avoid cancer BYLINE: By Ahmad Faiz
Abdul Rahman  BODY: ONE  should not be surprised to find that many
organisations which depend a  great deal on computers for their day-to-day
operations do not allocate  funds for anti-radiation filter screens. That is...

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