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Global News Headlines 01/03
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Monday, January 3, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) World Weather-More volatile at turn of millennium By James
Poole SINGAPORE, Dec 29 (Reuters) - As tropical Thailand
and Vietnam shivered in chilly temperatures in the past few
days, experts ask whether this is another worrying sign at
the turn of the millennium of an ever more volatile world
climate. "Our climate is changing rapidly... our new data ...
2) 12/30 UN: Storms will be disastrous for environment, timb... GENEVA
(AP) -- The storms which ravaged forests throughout Europe earlier
this week will have a disastrous effect on forests, wildlife and
lead to an increased risk of avalanches, U.N. experts warned
Thursday. The U.N. Economic ...
3) The Ottawa Citizen December 29, 1999 EDITION Early News
PAGE A3 Canada's climatic hot streak a sign of global
warming Andrew Duffy Although Calgarians may now be the
only Canadians still wearing golf shirts, climate
statistics show the entire country is on something of a hot
streak. ...
4) Deutsche Presse-Agentur January 3, 2000 HEADLINE: Taiwan's
acid rain partly caused by pollutants from S Korea, China
DATELINE: Taipei BODY: Pollutants blown by winds from South
Korea and China have contributed to acid rain in Taiwan,
Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) said Monday.
"Twenty five per cent of the air pollutants are from South ...
5) Agence France Presse January 1, 2000, HEADLINE: 600,000
French households still without power after storms
DATELINE: PARIS, June 1 BODY: Some 600,000 French
households were still without electricity on Saturday,
nearly a week after storms tore down power lines and
destroyed houses and forests, mainly in the west, centre ...
6) Newsweek January 1, 2000, U.S. Edition SECTION: SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY; Pg. 61 HEADLINE: Is It Hot in Here, or Is
It Just Me? HIGHLIGHT: Disruptions in climate patterns in
the 1990s led to environmental activism. But it may be too
late. BODY: Last year was the warmest on record, with
severe summer heat waves in the United States, China and ...
(GREENPEACE)
7) BusinessWorld January 3, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 17 HEADLINE:
YEAREND REPORT; National Economy: Politics of implementing
environmental laws: checking catastrophes simply waiting to
happen BYLINE: Earl Warren B. Castillo BODY: The signs of
future environmental problems are slowly beginning to show.
The government and must begin to address them now before ...
ENERGY
(GREENPEACE)
8) DOZENS OF DEAD ANIMALS FOUND ON SPAIN'S COAST Madrid, Jan
02, 2000 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Dozens of dead animals covered with oil
have been washing up on Spain's northern coast, victims of the oil
spill off the French region of Brittany. Ricardo Aguilar, a
Greenpeace public relations director, said Sunday that most of the
animals found have been sea ...
9) FOCUS-French storms hit state power firm EdF PARIS, Jan 3
(Reuters) - Electricite de France (EdF) may have to crimp
its European development projects in the coming three years
while it rebuilds its storm-battered network, a former EdF
executive said on Monday. The state power utility said it
was facing an overall bill of 16 billion French francs ...
10) VIC: More penguins dead from oil spill BODY: MELBOURNE,
Jan 3 AAP - Wildlife officers are monitoring a seal colony
and environmentalists want action after an oil spill killed
penguins on Phillip Island and left others coated in deadly
sludge. General manager of the Phillip Island Nature Park,
Ray Leivers (Leivers), said six penguins had died so far ...
11) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Titanic robot stuck on sea
bottom off Brittany DATELINE: BREST, France, Jan 2 BODY: An
underwater robot that surveyed the wreck of Titanic was
Sunday stuck 120 metres (390 feet) at the bottom of the
Atlantic during attempts to inspect a sunken tanker off the
French coast, local authorities said here. The remote ...
12) The Straits Times (Singapore) January 1, 2000 SECTION:
Science Technology; Pg. 64 HEADLINE: Winds of change BODY:
RENEWABLE ENERGY Power companies in Europe and US are
turning to renewable energy to reduce dependence on fossil
fuels. Singapore can also harness wind and solar energy for
power. FOO HWEI WEN explains. WHY RENEWABLE ENERGY? * The ...
(GREENPEACE)
13) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: TotalFina releases
emergency funds for Erika clean-up DATELINE: PARIS, Dec 30
BODY: French oil giant TotalFina will make emergency funds
worth 6.1 million dollars available for clean-up operations
after the Erika oil spill, company president Thierry
Desmarest announced Thursday. The offer came after a ...
(GREENPEACE)
14) The Guardian (London) December 29, 1999 SECTION: Guardian
Leader Pages; Pg. 14 HEADLINE: Solar power is clean, cheap
and catching fire abroad; Polly Toynbee Unless we are in at
the start of the industry, we have lost our chance BODY:
Among the multitudinous predictions about the next century,
this one is a near certainty: unless the government acts at ...
FORESTS
15) U.N., World Bank lead ecosystem assessment in 2000
DATELINE: TOKYO, Jan. 3 Kyodo BODY: The United Nations, the
World Bank and environment protection groups have decided
to jointly study the Earth's ecosystems and explore their
appropriate uses in the future in a three-year project to
be launched this year, organizers told Kyodo News on Monday....
GENETIC ENGINEERING
(GREENPEACE)
16) WSJ(12/28): Brazil's Soybeans Are Sold As "Non-GM" By
Steve Stecklow and Matt Moffett Staff Reporters of The Wall
Street Journal JULIO DE CASTILHOS, Brazil -- Along Brazil's
remote southern border with Argentina, a battle over
contraband is raging. Government inspectors raid storage
sheds and conduct on-the-spot lab tests. Tipsters have a ...
17) 12/31 DJ Asahi Breweries Plans Early Non-GM Corn Switch - Nikkei
TOKYO (Nikkei)--Asahi Breweries Ltd. (J.ASB or 2502) by February
will switch over entirely to corn products made from nongenetically
modified corn for use inits beer, The Nikkei Industrial Daily
reported in its Saturday edition. Previously, the company had
planned to make the switch by ...
MILITARY
18) U.S. recovers spy system hit by Y2K glitchBy Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - The United States on Monday
recovered full use of a critical spy satellite system, its
most significant known casualty of the Year 2000 computer
glitch. The ground link that processes the satellites' feed
"returned to full operational status this morning" after ...
19) PROGRAM THE NATIONAL [Canada] BDATE December 29, 1999
TITLE Alexander Nikitin acquitted of high treason. HOST BEN
CHIN BEN CHIN: In Russia this man, Alexander Nikitin, was
acquitted of high treason. He's a former submarine captain
and environmentalist who was accused of revealing Russian
state secrets. The CBC's Farid Barsoon reports. ...
20) AP Worldstream January 1, 2000 HEADLINE: Report: Russia to
conduct sub-critical nuclear tests in 2000 DATELINE: MOSCOW
BODY: Russia will conduct a series of sub-critical nuclear
tests at an Arctic testing range this year to check the
safety of its nuclear arsenal, a news report said Saturday.
Russia carries out an average of five sub-critical tests at ...
NUCLEAR POWER
(GREENPEACE)
21) 12/27 Nuclear waste shipment to leave France for Japan PARIS
(Reuters) - A shipment of reprocessed nuclear waste will leave the
northern French port of Cherbourg on Wednesday to return to Japan,
France's state-run nuclear company COGEMA said on Monday. COGEMA,
which reprocessed the waste at its plant in La Hague at the tip of
Normandy, ...
22) 12/27 S. Koreans Protest Nuclear Plants SEOUL, South Korea (AP) --
About 1,000 villagers and environmentalists staged a rally Monday to
demand that the South Korean government scrap plans to build more
nuclear power plants. South Korea has 15 nuclear power plants in
operation and five more under construction. It plans to build 11
others ...
(GREENPEACE)
23) ENVIRONMENT-TURKEY: ACTIVISTS FIGHT AMBITIOUS ...
ISTANBUL, (Dec. 27) IPS - Turkish environmentalists and
residents of the Mediterranean resort of Akkayu staged
demonstrations this weekend against the construction of a
nuclear plant in the village, the first of a series of 11.
"This plant is definitely going to be erected. Nobody but ...
24) Seven U.S. nuclear plants see minor Y2K glitches
WASHINGTON, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Seven U.S. commercial nuclear
reactors experienced minor Year 2000 computer-related
problems after the New Year's rollover, but none affected
safety systems and were quickly fixed, government officials
said on Saturday. The seven plants saw malfunctions with ...
25) 12/31 DJ Y2K:Tokyo Elec Power's Nuclear Plants Have Database Error
TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Tokyo Electric Power Co. (J.TER or 9501), Japan's
largest electric utility, said Saturday that a data processing
computer program used by the company's three nuclear power plants
malfunctioned Saturday morning. The computer program stores data on
the ...
26) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: SPD sets deadline for
nuclear abolition deal DATELINE: BERLIN, Jan 3 BODY: If the
German nuclear industry does not agree in the next three
months on a timetable for the phasing out of atomic power,
the government will legislate, the parliamentary leader of
the Social Democrats (SPD) said in an interview Monday. ...
27) Agence France Presse January 1, 2000, Saturday HEADLINE:
No millennium problems for world's nuclear power stations,
IAEA says DATELINE: VIENNA, Jan 1 BODY: Nuclear power
stations around the world saw in the new year without any
incidents jeopardizing security, the International Atomic
Energy Agency said Saturday at its headquarters in Vienna. ...
OCEANS
28) 12/28 Hong Kong builds artificial reefs to save endangere... HONG
KONG (AP) -- Hoping to save a population of Chinese white dolphins
from extinction, officials will plant artificial reefs in the
polluted Hong Kong waters to try to lure fish for them to eat.
Workers will sink 32 concrete ...
(GREENPEACE)
29) French environmentalists slam TotalFina over oil spill By
Catherine Bremer PARIS, Dec 29 (Reuters) - French
environmentalists hurled more blame at oil giant TotalFina
on Wednesday as fuel oil spilled from one of its chartered
tankers continued to wash up on France's west coast. As the
government promised 40 million French francs ($6.14 ...
(GREENPEACE)
30) 12/29 Fuel oil spill from Russian tanker blackens Istanbu... By
HARMONIE TOROS ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- Fuel oil blackened
kilometers (miles) of Istanbul's coast along the Bosporus Wednesday
after a Russian-registered tanker split apart in the strait that
cuts through this metropolis. ...
(GREENPEACE)
31) 12/31 JAPAN ACCUSED OVER THREAT TO BRITAIN'S FIN WHALES By Amanda
Brown, Environment Correspondent, PA News Wildlife campaigners fear
the Japanese government's whaling programme could threaten the
return of fin whales to the seas around the West Country. The
warning has come from Seaquest, the marine group of the Cornwall and
Devon ...
(GREENPEACE)
32) The Times (London) December 30, 1999 SECTION: Overseas news
HEADLINE: 170,000 birds killed as slick's impact spreads
BYLINE: Adam Sage in Paris BODY: Up to 170,000 seabirds,
most of which nest in Britain, have been killed in the
Atlantic oil slick that is turning into one of Europe's
worst ecological disasters. The figure emerged yesterday as ...
(GREENPEACE)
33) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Greenpeace says protest
thwarts Japanese whale hunt off Antarctica DATELINE: PARIS,
Dec 29 BODY: The environmental group Greenpeace said it had
prevented two Japanese ships from hunting whales off
Antarctica on Wednesday by positioning inflatable boats
fore and aft of the vessels. The five-hour action took ...
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
34) FEATURE-African rhino makes 20th century comeback By Ed
Stoddard MOTSETSE GAME RESERVE, South Africa, Dec 31
(Reuters) - Africa's southern white rhinoceros is one of
the 20th century's great comeback kids. At the end of the
last century, the world's second largest land mammal was
perched precariously on the brink of extinction. In the ...
35) Newsweek January 1, 2000, U.S. Edition SECTION: SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY; Pg. 54 HEADLINE: Born to Be (Almost) Wild
BYLINE: Thomas Hayden and Erika Check HIGHLIGHT:
Environment: As an extinction crisis looms, zoos aren't just
animal jails; they're leading the fight for survival. BODY:
Think of the western world 1,500 years ago when a great ...
36) The Times (London) January 1, 2000, Saturday SECTION:
Features HEADLINE: Good food needs green farms BYLINE:
Graham Harvey BODY: Graham Harvey reckons public opinion
has turned against destructive industrial farming Two news
events that went largely unnoticed in the final days of the
old year could herald dramatic changes in the British ...
TOXICS
37) Belgium imposes new anti-dioxin food safety checks
BRUSSELS, Dec 28 (Reuters) - The entire Belgian food chain
will be subjected to a rigorous new system of checks to
avoid a repeat of the country's dioxin contamination
crisis, Belgian Agriculture Minister Jaak Gabriels
announced on Tuesday. Gabriels told a news conference that ...
X-OTHER-X
38) Sunday Times (London) January 2, 2000, Sunday SECTION:
Home news HEADLINE: Planet of riches still blighted by
poverty BYLINE: Tom Walker BODY: MOST of the world's six
billion people have never had it so good and can look
forward in this 21st century to things getting much better.
Economic, scientific and technological progress offers ...
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