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Global News Headlines 08/06
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Friday, August 6, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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TOXICS
1) AAP NEWSFEED August 6, 1999, Friday HEADLINE: NSW: Toxic pesticide
found in breast milk BODY: BREAST MILK SYDNEY, Aug 6, AAP - A toxic
pesticide banned in New South Wales at least 40 primary foods even though
it is increasingly detected in breast milk. DDT and DDT-related compounds
were still being used in other federal government-approved pesticides,...
2) 08/06 Pesticides could make men less fertile - report LONDON
(Reuters) - Regular exposure to pesticides could make men less
fertile, doctors said Friday. Researchers from Wageningen
Agricultural University in the Netherlands studied how exposure to
pesticides affected the ability of the sperm to fertilize eggs,
surveying 836 couples who had sought in-vitro...
NUCLEARE POWER
3) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts August 06, 1999, Friday HEADLINE: Pacific
anti- nuclear group says islands refused right to bar nuclear shipments
Radio New Zealand International, Wellington, in English 0800 gmt 4 Aug 99
The Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement says larger countries are
now refusing to support the right of island countries to bar nuclear...
4) SPAIN'S STORAGE PLANS FOR NUCLEAR WASTE DRAW FLAK MADRID, Spain, August 5,
1999 (ENS) - Environmental non- governmental organisations in Spain
have reacted angrily to last weekend's decision by the country's
Council of Ministers to build a dry storage facility for spent
nuclear fuel at the Trillo nuclear power station in the central
Guadalajara province. The...
5) BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Political Supplied by BBC Worldwide
Monitoring August 6, 1999, Friday HEADLINE: MOLDOVA MULLS DANGERS OF
NUCLEAR FUEL TRANSIT BETWEEN RUSSIA, BULGARIA SOURCE: Russia TV, Moscow,
in Russian 0700 gmt 6 Aug 99 BODY: Text of report by Russia TV on 6th
August Presenter There is talk of possible radioactive contamination in...
6) National Post Friday, August 6, 1999 Toronto News A10 Workers
given heavy radiation dose Graham Hughes OTTAWA - Workers toiling in
the basement of a 1950s-era plutonium processing plant were exposed to the
yearly limit for radiation in less than two hours, a report released by
Canada's atomic energy watchdog shows. The Atomic Energy Control Board,...
7) Times Colonist (Victoria) Friday, August 6, 1999 Final Canada B4
N-site cancer studied OWEN SOUND -- Canada's federal nuclear control
agency is setting up a system for monitoring cancer rates in communities
near nuclear plants. ``We're in the process of establishing a surveillance
system in the vicinity of nuclear facilities,'' Sunni Locatelli, pokeswoman...
8) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts August 06, 1999, Friday HEADLINE:
Decommissioning of Chernobyl reactors starts SOURCE: Source: ITAR-TASS news
agency, Moscow, in English 2021 gmt 28 Jul 99 BODY: Kiev, 29th July: Work
has begun at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to take its reactors No 1
and No 2 out of service, and the government has yet to decide what to do...
NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY
(GREENPEACE)
9) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Greenpeace condemns plutonium shipment
in memory of Hiroshima DATELINE: TOKYO, Aug 6 BODY: Greenpeace on Friday
marked the 54th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by
condemning Japan's sea transport of recycled plutonium. "The shipment
of so-called civil nuclear material is helping to fuel the growing...
(GREENPEACE)
10) Japan mourns, calls for arms cuts on Hiroshima day By Eriko Sugita
HIROSHIMA, Japan, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands gathered in this
western Japanese city on Friday, the 54th anniversary of the dropping of
the first atomic bomb, to mourn those killed and renew calls for the
elimination of nuclear arms. Demands for arms reduction took on a grim...
11) Antinuke groups wrap up conferences in Hiroshima HIROSHIMA, Aug. 6 (Kyodo)
-- By: Maya Kaneko Japan's two major antinuclear groups ended their
separate meetings Friday in Hiroshima, adopting resolutions calling for a
21st century free of nuclear weapons. The Japan Congress Against A
and H Bombs (Gensuikin), backed by the Social Democratic Party, and
the Japan...
12) APO 08/06 1156 U.S. Still Biggest Arms Provider By TOM RAUM Associated
Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States remains the world's
biggest exporter of arms, accounting for about a third of the total, even
though worldwide demand has been slumping, a congressional study finds. In
1998, the United States led in new arms deals, with $7.1 billion -- up...
13) Agence France Presse August 06, 1999 08:43 GMT HEADLINE: South Korea
floods trigger landmine peril as hopes fade for survivors BYLINE: Marc
Lavine SEOUL, Aug 6 (AFP) - South Korea's military Friday put out an alert
for landmines and ammunition washed away by torrential rain as hopes faded
of finding more survivors from the deluge which killed at least 43 people....
OCEANS
(GREENPEACE)
14) Greenwire August 05, 1999 SECTION: WORLDVIEW HEADLINE: WHALES:
NORWEGIANS' AVOIDANCE OF WHALE MEAT CAUSES OWER KILL BODY: For the
first time since 1993, when Norway ignored a ban on commercial whaling
imposed by the International Whaling Commission, the number of minke
whales killed this year was lower than last year's harvest. As of the...
15) New Straits Times (Malaysia) August 6, 1999 SECTION: National; Pg. 6
HEADLINE: Sailfish and marlin on endangered list DATELINE: Ipoh BODY:
IPOH, Thurs. - Do not catch the sailfish and marlin which have joined the
dugong (sea cow), whale shark, dolphin, giant clam and whale as
endangered species. They are now listed in the United Nations Convention...
16) AP Worldstream August 06, 1999; HEADLINE: Tropical species making home in
warming sea, crowding out native fish BYLINE: ANNIE RUDERMAN DATELINE: ROME
BODY: The Mediterranean is on its way to becoming a tropical aquarium,
with 110 newcomer species from the tropics threatening to crowd out native
species less suited to the ever warmer and more polluted water, experts...
ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY
(GREENPEACE)
17) Irish Times Friday, August 6, 1999 Homes melt as ice retreats 100 miles
a week ARCTIC: Climate change is affecting Arctic animals by melting
their habitat, according to new evidence uncovered by a Greenpeace
expedition. The research found young walruses in particular were
affected by the change to the ecosystem, but polar bears, seals and...
(GREENPEACE)
18) The Herald (Glasgow) August 5, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 8 HEADLINE: St Kilda oil
protest BYLINE: Craig Watson BODY: DESCENDANTS of St Kildans yesterday
joined conservationists and workers on the islands to stage an imitation
"parliament" which protested against oil exploration work in the area,
writes Craig Watson. Around 40 people took part in the event, which...
19) 08/06 1211 Floods Kill 949 in Asia By OLIVER TEVES Associated Press
Writer MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- New rains threatened parts of
Asia still struggling to recover from weeks of summer floods that
have killed at least 949 people and left millions homeless.
Another tropical storm was approaching South Korea, already battered
by fierce rains, and forecasters...
20) AAP NEWSFEED August 6, 1999, Friday HEADLINE: NSW: Greens dump tanker
sludge at Shell headquarters BODY: TANKER GREENS SYDNEY, Aug 6 AAP - The
New South Wales Greens today dumped a bucketful of oil sludge at Shell
Australia's Sydney headquarters in response to this week's Sydney Harbour
oil spill. Outspoken Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon said people were outraged...
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
21) South China Morning Post August 6, 1999 SECTION: News; Pg. 13 HEADLINE:
Farming and logging cut forests by third in 15 years BYLINE: HUW
WATKIN in Hanoi BODY: The country's forest cover has shrunk by a third
in the past 15 years due to illegal logging, slash-and-burn agriculture
and the felling of trees to make way for plantation crops, according to...
22) Experts call for Indonesia to face court over smog Adds paragraphs 5-6 on
SEA games in Brunei) By Claudia Gazzini JAKARTA, Aug 6 (Reuters) -
Sumatra residents wore masks to keep out a choking smog from forest fires
on Friday, as environmental monitors called for Indonesia to face an
international court over what is becoming an annual disaster. An...
23) ameriscan ens august 6 1999 LAWSUIT SEEKS WILDERNESS STATUS FOR ALASKA'S
TONGASS FOREST Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service Wednesday
because, in developing the new plan for Alaska's Tongass National Forest,
the agency failed to consider permanent wilderness area protection for any
portion of the millions of acres of undeveloped wild lands on the Tongass....
24) Ruling halts timber sales again in U.S. Northwest By Chris Stetkiewicz
SEATTLE, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Environmentalists on Thursday hailed a judge's
decision that could delay hundreds of federal timber sales in the Pacific
Northwest, while outraged industry executives said the move would drive
up prices and cost jobs. U.S. District Judge William Dwyer ruled on...
25) Copyright 1999 The Christian Science Publishing Society The Christian
Science Monitor August 6, 1999, Friday SECTION: USA; Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Are
plants going the way of the dinosaurs? BYLINE: Laurent Belsie, ST. LOUIS
HIGHLIGHT: As many species head toward extinction, scientists worry about
the globe's health. BODY: Over the years, people have banded together to...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
(GREENPEACE)
26) Chicago Tribune August 5, 1999 Thursday, Pg. 13; ZONE: N HEADLINE:
REFLECTING EUROPE'S VIEW, BRITISH MILITANTS DESTROY ALTERED CROPS BYLINE:
By Ray Moseley, Tribune Foreign Correspondent. DATELINE: LONDON BODY:
They gather secretly in the night, then descend on farmers' fields at first
light, trampling and scything down crops before anyone can stop them. It...
(GREENPEACE)
27) Irish Times Friday, August 6, 1999 Monsanto beet trial site damaged
by chemical By Kevin O'Sullivan, Environmental and Food Science
Correspondent About 60 per cent of a Monsanto sugar beet trial site in
Co Wexford has been contaminated by the spraying of a petrolbased
chemical on to the crop. Gardaí at Duncannon have initiated an...
28) ens august 6 1999 JAPAN TO LABEL 28 BIOTECH FOODS TOKYO, Japan, August
5, 1999 (ENS) - Twenty-eight genetically modified foods would have to
carry identifying labels if a draft plan introduced Wednesday by the
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries becomes law. The
draft was submitted to the Minstry's advisory panel for consideration
at a meeting August 10. The...
29) AAP NEWSFEED August 6, 1999, Friday HEADLINE: FED: Agriculture ministers
support genetically - modified food BODY: FOOD (CARRIED EARLIER)
SYDNEY, Aug 6 AAP - Genetically - modified food was given approval by
federal and state agriculture ministers today as a way of improving the
quality of the world's food supplies. A joint statement from a meeting...
30) Biotech industry plays down new GMO findings BRUSSELS, Aug 5 (Reuters) -
Europe's biotechnology industry on Thursday strove to play down a report
which cast new doubt about the environmental effects of genetically
modified (GM) crops. Europabio, which speaks for life sciences companies
operating in Europe, said the use of crops altered to be resistant to...
31) Nissho Iwai to begin service to test for GMO foods DATELINE: TOKYO, Aug.
6 Kyodo BODY: Trading house Nissho Iwai Corp. said Friday it will
begin a joint service with BML Inc. to detect genetically modified
organisms ( GMO) in food and issue certificates to food products
free of genetic engineering. With the service due to start Oct. 1,
Nissho Iwai intends to...
32) 08/05 0538 US' MONSANTO SEEKS NOD TO GENETICALLY ALTER INDIAN NEW
DELHI, Aug 05, 1999 (Asia Pulse via COMTEX) -- The US seed giant
Monsanto, whose efforts to introduce genetically engineered cotton
were thwarted by environmentalists last year, is at the centre of
new controversy over its proposal to genetically alter rice,
sugarcane and other Indian food crops....
OTHERS
33) The Economist August 07, 1999, U.S. Edition HEADLINE: Greens grow up
DATELINE: brussels HIGHLIGHT: The arrival in power of growing numbers of
green parties is as much cause for soul-searching as for celebration
BODY: THE double doors to the minister's office are flung jauntily
open. Young men in black jeans, their shirt-sleeves rolled up, huddle...
34) The Economist August 07, 1999, U.S. Edition HEADLINE: A greener, or
browner, Mexico? DATELINE: CIUDAD JUAREZ HIGHLIGHT: NAFTA purports to be
the world's first environmentally friendly trade treaty, but its critics
claim it has made Mexico dirtier. There is evidence on both sides BODY:
GIVEN the industrial invasion that the North American Free- Trade...
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