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Global News Headlines 09/15
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Wednesday, September 15, 1999
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Global warming could spawn
more super-hurricanes: WWF DATELINE: GENEVA, Sept 15 BODY:
Global warming could spawn more super-hurricanes like the
one heading for southeastern United States, the World
Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) warned Wednesday. Hurricane
Floyd, which on Tuesday ripped through the Bahamas, could ...
2) Deutsche Presse-Agentur September 15, 1999 HEADLINE:
ROUNDUP: U.N. warns time is running out to save global
environment DATELINE: London BODY: Time is running out for
the global environment, with a shortage of drinking water
and global warming seen as major threats to mankind, the
United Nations warned in its "Global Environment Outlook ...
3) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) September 15, 1999, SECTION:
Pg. 08 HEADLINE: The British Association: Warning on rising
seas BYLINE: Robert Uhlig, Aisling Irwin, and Sally Pook
BODY: THE rise in sea levels over the next 100 years could
be twice that originally predicted, according to new
research. Small island states and low-lying regions could ...
(GREENPEACE)
4) Inter Press Service HEADLINE: FINANCE-ENVIRONMENT: BANKERS
SMELL PROFIT IN POLLUTION BYLINE: By Abid Aslam DATELINE:
WASHINGTON, Sep. 15 BODY: Carbon dioxide is odorless but it
smells like money to bankers hustling an emerging market in
" greenhouse gases. " Carbon dioxide and other gases are
released mainly when fossil fuels such as coal and oil are ...
5) 09/15 GLOBAL WARMING THREAT TO WILDLIFE UNDER SCRUTINY By Amanda
Brown, Environment Correspondent, PA News Climate change will create
wildlife winners and losers -- but there is still uncertainty over
the effects on species of rising temperatures, scientists will be
told tomorrow. The recent and future impacts of the warming
atmosphere on animals, ...
ENERGY
6) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Water supply, land
degradation threatening Asia, says UN report DATELINE:
GENEVA, Sept 15 BODY: Asia and the Pacific enter the next
millennium facing some of the gravest environmental
problems of any of the world's regions, according to a UN
report published here Wednesday. The water supply, ...
7) South China Morning Post September 15, 1999 SECTION: News;
Pg. 14 HEADLINE: Dam talks exclude minority groups BYLINE:
WILLIAM BARNES BODY: Thai-based environmentalists yesterday
accused the American organisers of a conference of going
behind the backs of vulnerable ethnic groups in discussing
massive Burmese dam projects in private. Oregon University, ...
8) USA TODAY September 15, 1999, FIRST EDITION SECTION: NEWS;
Pg. 3A HEADLINE: Mercury taints Great Lakes, groups say
Environmentalists: Polluted rain is poisoning water BYLINE:
Debbie Howlett DATELINE: CHICAGO BODY: CHICAGO -- Rain
contaminated by emissions from coal-fired power plants
carries alarming amounts of mercury and is almost certainly ...
(GREENPEACE)
9) The Yangtze's collision course Where nature faces off with
industry and the human species By Kaari Huus, MSNBC Online,
09/15/99, SHANGHAI - Before the building of the massive Three Gorges
Dam began, Chinese and foreign tourists rushed to see the Yangtze
River before it changed forever. Passengers packed onto ferries
carrying 600 to 700 people. ...
(GREENPEACE)
10) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, Solar power could soon be
competitive - Greenpeace UK: September 15, 1999 LONDON -
Solar energy could become competitive in the short-term with
conventional electricity if solar panels were manufactured
on a large scale, said a report published by environmental
campaigners Greenpeace yesterday. ...
FORESTS
11) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Poverty a big cause of
Africa's environmental problems: UN report DATELINE:
GENEVA, Sept 15 BODY: Poverty and lack of expertise or
finance are aggravating Africa's environmental problems,
ranging from deforestation and desertification to water
supply and destruction of wildlife, a UN report published ...
12) Aust commodities forecaster puts plantations on the agenda
BODY: FED: CANBERRA, Sept 15 AAP - Australia had more than
19 million hectares of land waiting to play host to plantations and
farm forestry, the nation's chief commodities forecaster said today.
The Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics (ABARE)
has identified ...
13) Inter Press Service HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENT-THAILAND: LOCALS
NURTURE MANGROVES BACK TO LIFE BYLINE: Prangtip Daorueng
DATELINE: SAMUT SONGKHRAM, Thailand, Sep. 15 BODY: For
64-year-old Paiboon Rattanapongtala, saving the mangrove forest in
his hometown means saving his entire community. "The villagers lost
their land and can't rely on small ...
14) COMMODITIES & AGRICULTURE: FAO boosts economics of
agriculture Financial Times ; 14-Sep-1999 Agriculture's
economic contribution has been neglected and needs to put
back at the centre of the international agenda, according
to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.
While the main function of the agricultural and forestry ...
(GREENPEACE)
15) The News Tribune September 14, 1999, SECTION: Pg. A1
HEADLINE: Log-export ban imperiled; Environmental groups
fear Japan's request to WTO for changes would be disastrous
BYLINE: Les Blumenthal, The News Tribune BODY: WASHINGTON -
Federal and state bans on raw log exports from West Coast
forests could fall in a new round of international trade ...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
16) Inter Press Service HEADLINE: TRADE: NOW CURRY PATENTS --
INDIA "UNPREPARED" FOR SEATTLE BYLINE: Ranjit Dev Raj
DATELINE: NEW DELHI, Sep 15 BODY: It is enough to get
Indians hot under the collar. Curry, that fiery,
condiment-laden sauce, so essential to Indian cuisine, is
in danger of falling to Japanese patent hunters. There have ...
(GREENPEACE)
17) The Japan Times September 15, 1999 HEADLINE: A growing
appetite for safety BODY: By HUGH CORTAZZI LONDON - Genetic
biologists - especially those working for big U.S.
companies such as Monsanto - and U.S. trade negotiators
are furious with Europeans because they are not prepared to
accept that hormone-injected beef and gene- modified ...
18) WSJ(9/15):Editorial: Seeds Of Trouble (Editor's Note: This
is an editorial from Wednesday's Wall Street Journal) NEW
YORK (Dow Jones)--We guess the guy who came up with the
name "terminator" gene won't be getting his bonus this
year. It's one of the reasons that a plague of plaintiffs
lawyers is now descending on the agricultural biotech ...
19) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, Seed firms remind farmers about EU
GMO corn rules USA: September 15, 1999 WASHINGTON - Three
seed companies say they have taken the initiative to remind
U.S. farmers to keep genetically-modified corn not approved
in the European Union out of exports channels.
Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. , Novartis Seeds Inc. ...
MILITARY
20) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: N.Korea says over 2,000 US
nuclear weapons deployed in S.Korea DATELINE: SEOUL, Sept 15
BODY: North Korea on Wednesday accused the United States of
deploying more than 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons in rival
South Korea to be used against the communist state. A
"white paper" by the North's national reunification ...
21) The Washington Times September 15, 1999, Final Edition
SECTION: PART A; NATION; Pg. A3 HEADLINE: Russians may have
tested nuclear device underground BYLINE: Bill Gertz; THE
WASHINGTON TIMES BODY: U.S. intelligence agencies detected
an underground explosion at a remote Russian military site
earlier this month that analysts believe was a small ...
22) 09/15 U.N. Council Approves Timor Mission By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED
NATIONS (AP) -- Moving with uncharacteristic speed to end the
rampant violence in East Timor, the U.N. Security Council today
authorized a multinational force "to take all necessary measures" to
restore peace and ensure that the territory moves toward
independence. In a ...
23) 09/15 Human rights activists demonstrate in Thailand over...
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Human rights activists from five Southeast
Asian nations demonstrated at Indonesia's embassy Wednesday,
demanding Jakarta pull its troops out of East Timor and urgently
allow international peacekeepers into ...
24) The Ottawa Citizen Wednesday, September 15, 1999 Final City
C3 Plutonium shipment will go ahead: minister: Government
unmoved despite protests from Cornwall, Sudbury BY Kate
Jaimet Canada will go ahead with its project to try to test
plutonium from nuclear weapons as fuel in Candu reactors
unless opponents of the test come up with new, more ...
NUCLEAR POWER
25) SA: Women elders join nuclear protest BYLINE: By Sherrill
Nixon BODY: NUCLEAR ROXBY DOWNS, SA, Sept 14 AAP - A group
of Aboriginal women elders joined a protest against the
Olympic Dam uranium mine today, saying their people and
their land had already been poisoned enough by nuclear
radiation. Seven women from the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta ...
26) The Guardian (London) September 15, 1999 SECTION: Guardian
Home Pages; Pg. 9 HEADLINE: Japan launches inquiry into
BNFL; Inspectors sent to Sellafield after company admits
safety slip-up BYLINE: Jonathan Watts in Tokyo and Paul
Brown in London BODY: Jonathan Watts in Tokyo and Paul
Brown in London The credibility of British Nuclear Fuels ...
27) The Independent (London) September 15, 1999, Wednesday
SECTION: COMMENT; Pg. 3 HEADLINE: LEADING ARTICLE: THE
NUCLEAR INDUSTRY MUST ANSWER SOME TOUGH QUESTIONS BODY: IN
NO other industry, save perhaps air travel, is the culture
of safety of such absolute importance as it is in nuclear
power. Everything to do with the nuclear cycle - the fuel, ...
28) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: BNFL waited 4 days
before telling of MOX error DATELINE: TOKYO, Sept. 15 Kyodo
BODY: British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. ( BNFL) , the maker of
mixed oxide (MOX) fuel to be used in nuclear reactors in
Japan, waited four days before telling the Japanese
procurer that it had not properly checked MOX fuel bound ...
29) The New York Times September 15, 1999, Late Edition -
Final SECTION: B; Page 5; Column 5; Metropolitan Desk
HEADLINE: Con Ed Apologizes for Role In a Nuclear Plant
Shutdown BYLINE: MATTHEW L. WALD DATELINE: KING OF PRUSSIA,
Pa., Sept. 14 BODY: After the Indian Point 2 nuclear power
plant unexpectedly shut down two weeks ago, managers ...
30) The Washington Post September 15, 1999, Final Edition
SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A02 HEADLINE: Safety Measures
Ordered at Kentucky Uranium Plant; Investigation Uncovers
Dozens of Oversights in Radiation Safeguards BYLINE: Joby
Warrick, Washington Post Staff Writer BODY: Energy
Secretary Bill Richardson ordered immediate safety ...
31) Ukraine shrugs off Y2K fears despite Chernobyl KIEV, Sept
15 (Reuters) - Fears of a second Chernobyl may spur foreign
residents in Ukraine to find alternative venues to greet the new
millennium, but officials said on Wednesday potential Y2K problems
were no worse than elsewhere. Concerns about the possible effect of
millennium bugs in ...
32) PA 09/15 1433 APPROVAL DELAYS HIT NUCLEAR REVENUES By
Simon Watkins, Business Editor, PA News Delays in winning
Government approval for its latest reprocessing plant at
Sellafield cost British Nuclear Fuels 21 million last year,
the company said today. The plant was finally given a
partial go ahead in June after two years of regulatory ...
OCEANS
(GREENPEACE)
33) The Associated Press September 14, 1999, Tuesday, PM cycle
SECTION: State and Regional HEADLINE: New anti-sub sonar
harmful to marine mammals, opponents say DATELINE:
BREMERTON, Wash. BODY: The Navy says a new anti-submarine
sonar system is needed to detect increasingly quiet foreign
subs and poses no risk to marine mammals, but whale ...
(GREENPEACE)
34) WSJ(9/15): THE WALL STREET JOURNAL / NORTHWEST: Judge
Asked To Save Sea Lions By Curbing The Catch For Pollock By
Janet I. Tu Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal /
Northwest A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday in a
lawsuit that members of the commercial pollock-fishing
industry say is aimed at putting them out of business. ...
35) National Post September 15, 1999 National News A10
Endangered turtle first to be monitored by satellite: Caught
off Cape Breton BY Graeme Hamilton HALIFAX - The work of
two Nova Scotia fishermen and a marine biologist is
shedding new light on the endangered leatherback sea
turtle, the largest species of turtle in the world. In what ...
TOXICS
36) The Times (London) September 15, 1999 SECTION: Home news
HEADLINE: Pollution runs deep under cities BODY: Virtually
every underground well under Britain's big cities is
contaminated with noxious chemicals and sewage, the
conference was told. Studies of aquifers in Birmingham and
Coventry found that all but a few contain chlorinated ...
37) 09/15 Calif. Drafts Pesticide Regulations By CHRISTINE HANLEY
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- With a big judicial nudge, California
pesticide regulators are drafting the first statewide regulations
governing the use of methyl bromide, a fumigant treasured by farmers
but poisonous to humans. Under a court order, the state Department
of Pesticide ...
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