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Global News Headlines 08/17
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Tuesday, August 17, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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TOXICS
(GREENPEACE)
1) OTC 08/16 2004 FINANCE-ENVIRONMENT: GOLD DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS ...
WASHINGTON, (Aug. 15) IPS - Gold industry opposition to a proposed sale of
International Monetary Fund (IMF) reserves has obscured anguished voices
of communities who say that, even at its best, the precious metal is a
mixed blessing. The IMF wants to sell some bullion, invest the proceeds,...
2) Sierra Club sues to reduce cement kiln pollution By Patrick Connole
WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Environmentalists Sierra Club on Monday said
it filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking better U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency rules for protecting people from pollution created by
cement kilns. Mercury and other dangerous chemicals are being released...
3) The Washington Times August 17, 1999, Tuesday, Final Edition SECTION:
PART A; NATION; Pg. A3 HEADLINE: Official seeks tobacco-import tests;
Audit finds traces of banned, restricted pesticides in samples BYLINE:
Barbara J. Saffir; THE WASHINGTON TIMES BODY: An agriculture official is
calling for mandatory pesticide testing of all imported tobacco after...
4) The San Francisco Chronicle AUGUST 17, 1999, TUESDAY, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A1 HEADLINE: Lunch Going Organic; Berkeley schools to
OK plan for pesticide -free food BYLINE: Meredith May, Chronicle Staff
Writer DATELINE: BERKELEY BODY: Move over mystery meat -- make way for
the rice cakes. Berkeley's school cafeterias are going organic under a...
5) Ameriscan ENS August 16 1999 FLUORESCENT LIGHTS IN SCHOOLS LEAK PCBS The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is investigating a leak of
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from fluorescent lights in an Oregon
school. Teachers at the Wilsonville School contacted the EPA about a June
10 fire in the housing of a schoolroom's fluorescent light. PCBs are...
6) The Ottawa Citizen August 17, 1999, FINAL SECTION: News; C10 HEADLINE:
U.S. tries to repair Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone': Cut fertilizer use,
restore wetlands, scientists recommend BYLINE: Philip Brasher DATELINE:
WASHINGTON BODY: WASHINGTON -- Government scientists looking for ways to
repair the damage that farm runoff has done to the Gulf of Mexico are...
7) The Guardian (London) August 17, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Leader Pages; Pg.
14 HEADLINE: If breast isn't best; Ros Coward Babies could be hurt
by toxins in breast milk - the debate can't end simply because we're
uncomfortable BODY: Media health scares come and go, doing little
apart from inducing anxiety and confirming existing prejudices. Such
has been...
NUCLEAR POWER
8) OTC 08/17 0831 China, Russia begin building first joint reactor BEIJING,
Aug. 17 (Kyodo) -- China and Russia have begun construction of their first
jointly built nuclear reactor, China's state media reported Tuesday.
According to schedule, it will be completed by 2005 to become China's
sixth nuclear power plant, the overseas edition of People's Daily reported....
9) Ameriscan ENS August 16 1999 HEALING OUR WORLD WEEKLY COMMENT By Jackie
Alan Giuliano, Ph.D. THE RADIOACTIVE DINNER TABLE - AN INDUSTRY GONE MAD
We wait in the darkness! Come, all ye who listen, Help in our night
journey: Now no sun is shining; Now no star is glowing; Come show is the
pathway: The night is not friendly; The moon has forgot us, We wait in...
10) The Irish Times August 17, 1999, CITY EDITION SECTION: HOME NEWS; Pg. 4
HEADLINE: Anti- Sellafield group questions study's claim BYLINE: By EMMET
OLIVER BODY: Anti- Sellafield campaigners yesterday questioned new
research which claimed a common virus was responsible for high rates of
leukaemia in the area around the nuclear reprocessing plant at Cumbria....
11) The Guardian (London) August 17, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Leader Pages; Pg.
15 HEADLINE: Nuclear fall-out BYLINE: Richard Bramhall BODY: The
plutonium in the experiments you reported ( Plutonium harmless,
say scientists who breathed it, August 9) is in the form of citrate
and nitrate . These are soluble, and are not metabolised in the same
way as insoluble...
NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY
12) The Guardian (London) August 17, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Home Pages; Pg. 3
HEADLINE: UK arranged transfer of Nazi scientists to Australia BYLINE: Ian
Traynor in Berlin BODY: Ian Traynor in Berlin Britain secretly organised
the recruitment and transfer to Australia of scores of leading Nazi
scientists and weapons specialists after the second world war, newly...
OCEANS
13) WHAT THE PAPERS SAY August 17, 1999, Tuesday SECTION: SHORTS HEADLINE:
RUSSIA LOSES BILLIONS TO FOREIGN POACHERS SOURCE: Kontinent, No 32,
August, 1999, p. 2 BODY: According to the Federal Border Guards Service
and the Foreign Intelligence Service, Russia loses over $10 billion every
year in the Far East alone. Russian territorial waters are invaded most...
14) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE FEATURE - cloudy future for South Africa's Jackass
penguins SOUTH AFRICA: August 17, 1999 DASSEN ISLAND - South Africa's
Jackass penguin population has recovered in the five years since it
was almost wiped out by an oil spill, but its future is far from
bright. The prediction would be it could become extinct in the wild...
ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY
15) Xinhua HEADLINE: sea level along bangladesh rising DATELINE: dhaka, august
17; ITEM NO: 0817098 BODY: the sea level along the bangladesh's
coast is rising at about 3 millimeters a year and the sea
temperature is showing a rising trend, the independent daily
reported tuesday, quoting a latest research. the research was
conducted by the saarc (south asian association...
16) AP Worldstream August 17, 1999; HEADLINE: Japan wants to study global
warming with giant airships DATELINE: TOKYO BODY: Japan wants launch
giant solar-powered airships able to stay afloat a month as part of its
study of global warming, but first it has to figure out how, an official
said Tuesday. The helium-filled craft, which on the drawing board looks...
17) Calgary Herald August 17, 1999, FINAL ECTION: Comment; A17 HEADLINE: Look
to the sun to shed light on potential climate changes: Lorne Gunter
advises global warning scaremongers to eat grass BYLINE: Lorne Gunter,
Edmonton Journal DATELINE: EDMONTON BODY: Typical of many three-year-
olds, my son loves dinosaurs. Almost since he could speak he has called...
18) The Ottawa Citizen August 17, 1999, FINAL SECTION: News; A5 HEADLINE:
Disease expert predicts century of death: Global warming, unchecked
population growth, and the overuse of antibiotics have set the stage for an
'infectious disease catastrophe.' Louise Surette reports. BYLINE: Louise
Surette DATELINE: TORONTO BODY: TORONTO - The next century will bring...
19) ENS August 16 1999 THE AIR YOU BREATHE CAN KILL YOU ATLANTA, Georgia,
August 16, 1999 (ENS) - Healthy adults are facing previously unsuspected
threats from air pollution. Tiny particles can zoom through human lungs up
to two times faster and penetrate more deeply than assumed before, a
University of Delaware scientist says. Children and the elderly are at even...
20) The Mirror August 17, 1999, Tuesday SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 11 HEADLINE: WINDY
THRILLER BYLINE: Brian Farmer BODY: By BRIAN FARMER IT'S enough to put
the wind up most people - a massive turbine rising 72 yards out of the
ground. But this revolutionary pounds 1million windmill will provide
electricity to around 3,000 people without producing even a hint of...
21) Ameriscan ENS August 16 1999 $13 MILLION WILL PROMOTE BIOMASS RESEARCH
U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson announced Friday more than $13
million in grants to promote the growth of the biomass industry. On
Thursday, President Bill Clinton ordered significant increases in biomass
use for the generation of electric power. "With the guidance and leadership...
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
(GREENPEACE)
22) APf 08/17 1122 Greenpeace-Amazon AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- The
Amazon rain forest will be wiped out in 80 years if multinational logging
companies continue deforestation at the current rate, Greenpeace warned
Tuesday in its annual report. As part of its Brazilian Amazon campaign,
the environmental group said it will target multinational companies and...
23) OTC 08/16 1525 Government Moves Towards Stripping Grizzly Bear of ...
BOZEMAN, Mont., Aug. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a first step toward removing
the grizzly from the Endangered Species List, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (FWS) has released a set of goals that falls short of what is
necessary to protect bear habitat in and around Yellowstone. Experts with...
GENETIC EGINEERING
(GREENPEACE)
24) PA 08/16 2008 SABOTAGE WARNING AS GM TEST SITES DISCLOSED By PA News
Reporters The precise locations of four large-scale tests of genetically-
modified crops were today disclosed by the Government - as environmentalists
warned it was "quite likely" they would be attacked by activists. The
Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions' Internet site today...
(GREENPEACE)
25) The Guardian (London) August 17, 1999 SECTION: Guardian Features Pages;
Pg. 2 HEADLINE: The group member BODY: A vast range of groups is now
campaigning against GM quite legally. They include Greenpeace and Friends
of the Earth, Genetic Action Network and numerous smaller groups. Many
of them have confined themselves to legal action but only Greenpeace...
(GREENPEACE)
26) Bloomberg Aug 17 Top World News Tue, 17 Aug 1999, 1:11pm EDT Novartis,
Other Companies May Move Gene-Modified Crop Trials Out of U.K. By Phyllis
Carter Biotech Companies May Move Gene-Modified Crop Trials From U.K.
London, Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Novartis AG, the biggest maker of
crop-protection products, and other companies say they might move...
(GREENPEACE)
27) The Northern Echo August 17, 1999 SECTION: Pg. 8 HEADLINE: WHY WE MUST
STRANGLE THIS MONSTER AT BIRTH BODY: FOLLOWING in the footsteps of the
Kilroy, Jerry Springer and Oprah Winfrey confessional television
programmes, I hope the 21st Century will dawn with a new variety on this
old theme in which Governments and multinational companies are made to...
28) National Post August 17, 1999 Tuesday NATIONAL EDITIONS SECTION: FINANCIAL
POST: COMMENT; Pg. C07, Transcript HEADLINE: Let's cut out GM food lobby
BYLINE: Julian Morris and Roger Bate;Adapted from Fearing Food by Julian
Morris and Roger Bate, published by Butterworth Heinemann. BODY: There
has been a public outcry in the United Kingdom and in North America...
OTHER
29) RTos 08/17 1119 Experts Worry That Public May Not Trust Science By
Lyndsay Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - Don't drink tea or wear sun cream.
Avoid white wine, get off the pill and give up breast-feeding. Take
aspirin, quit exercising and, most important, stop reading medical stories
-- they could be bad for your health. Amid a rash of often contradictory...
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