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Sunday, January 9, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) WINTER AUTO SHOWS OFFER ENVIRONMENTAL HOPE - AND HYPE LOS 
ANGELES, California, January 7, 2000 (ENS) - The Sierra 
Club made history today - it presented the first product 
award in the conservation group's 108 year history - to a 
clean running, highly efficient new passenger car. So 
automobiles, responsible for much of the lung clogging smog ...

2) The New York Times January 9, 2000, Late Edition - Final 
SECTION: Section 1; Page 28; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk 
HEADLINE: New York City Weather: A Century-Long Warming 
Trend BYLINE: By WILLIAM K. STEVENS BODY: Over the century 
just departed, the earth became warmer, with the average 
global surface temperature rising by about one degree ...

3) HEADLINE: Agency to boost use of environmentally friendly 
fuel cells DATELINE: TOKYO, Jan. 9 Kyodo BODY: The 
government's energy agency plans to expand the use of 
environmentally friendly fuel cells, which use hydrogen and 
oxygen to produce energy, for homes and vehicles as a 
partial substitute for nuclear power, according to agency ...

4) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Northern Italian cities 
impose travel ban due to smog DATELINE: MILAN, Italy, Jan 8 
BODY: Milan, Italy's economic capital, and four other 
northern Italian cities have imposed travel restrictions 
for vehicles not fitted with anti- pollution devices for 
Sunday because of severe air pollution, officials said ...

5) Calgary Herald January 8, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; A6 
HEADLINE: Alberta's gas emissions worst BODY: Alberta has 
surged ahead of Ontario as the biggest producer of man- 
made greenhouse gases in Canada. While soaring natural gas 
exports account for much of the rise, critics note that a 
lack of conservation measures has resulted in huge ...

6) Daily Record January 8, 2000,SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4 
HEADLINE: GLOBAL WARMING BLAMED FOR GALES; KEY AIR PRESSURE 
SYSTEM SWEEPS IN WINTER STORMS BYLINE: Jim Mclean BODY: A 
GIANT weather cycle has hit an all-time high, causing the 
gales sweeping rain-lashed Scotland. Known as the North 
Atlantic Oscillation, it has peaked at 300 per cent above ...

(GREENPEACE)
7) The Toronto Star January 8, 2000, Saturday, Edition 1 
SECTION: NEWS HEADLINE: A GLIMPSE OF GREEN SHOWS UP IN 
CHINA'S BLACK SKIES BODY: A veil of pollution hangs over 
Taiyuan, the filthiest city in China. The environmental 
threat has migrated to Beijing and ordinary Chinese are 
taking notice. Set up China's first environmental ...

 FORESTS 

8) ILLEGAL LOGGERS OF THE WORLD, THE U.S. IS AFTER YOU  
WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2000 (ENS) - An area of forest 
roughly equal to the state of Georgia is being stripped 
from the Earth every year, and we are losing the equivalent 
of two football fields of tropical forest every second, a 
top level U.S. official said Thursday. ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

9) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) January 9, 2000, Sanday SECTION: 
Pg. 1 HEADLINE: Govt to set standards for GM food labeling 
BODY: Under a new labeling system to go into effect in 
fiscal 2000, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 
Ministry plans to allow food manufacturers to label their 
soybean products as "not genetically modified" if the ...

10) The Ottawa Citizen January 8, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; 
A1 / Front HEADLINE: Biotech advances spook Canadians: 
poll: GM foods top list of technology fears BYLINE: Mark 
Kennedy BODY: Canadians fear the brave new world of science 
that has spawned genetically modified food and could soon 
lead to lab- grown organs for transplant, according to a ...

(GREENPEACE)
11) EVENING CHRONICLE (Newcastle, UK) January 7, 2000, Friday 
Edition 1 SECTION: WORLD TONIGHT, Pg. 4 HEADLINE: Tesco's 
ban on veg from GM sites BODY: A leading supermarket chain 
is instructing its fruit and vegetable suppliers not to 
grow food on sites used for testing genetically modified 
crops. The move by Tesco comes as the Government is ...

(GREENPEACE)
12) The Herald (Glasgow) January 7, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 30 
HEADLINE: Britons have no taste for GM food BYLINE: Robert 
Ross BODY: THE public has taken a long and careful look at 
genetically modified (GM) food and rejected it, Lord 
Melchett, executive director of Greenpeace, claimed 
yesterday. Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference, he ...

 MILITARY 

13) DISARMAMENT: CONFERENCE FACES ADVERSE CLIMATE GENEVA, 
(Jan. 7) IPS - Wars and international disputes have 
generated an unfavorable climate for the annual sessions of 
the Conference on Disarmament (CD), to get underway in this 
Swiss city on Jan. 17. In 1998, the talks were shaken by 
nuclear tests in India and Pakistan, and the following year ...

14) FOR FIRST TIME, EPA ORDERS CLEANUP AT MILITARY FIRING 
RANGE BOSTON, Massachusetts, January 7, 2000 (ENS) - The 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will order the 
National Guard today to clean up spent munitions its firing 
ranges at Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod. 
The job is estimated to cost up to $320 million. This marks...

15) WORLDSCAN WEEKLY NOTEBOOK: JANUARY 7, 2000 NIKITIN 
ACQUITTAL APPEALED ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, January 7, 2000 
(ENS) - St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office has lodged an 
appeal with the Russian Supreme Court against the acquittal 
of environmental whistleblower Aleksandr Nikitin. 
The court, presided over by Judge Sergey Golets, acquitted ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

16) Memorial service held for JCO worker Ouchi TOKAIMURA, 
Japan, Jan. 8 (Kyodo) -- A memorial service was held 
Saturday for Hisashi Ouchi, who died last month as a result 
of severe irradiation in the Sept. 30 accident at a uranium 
processing plant run by JCO Co. in Tokaimura, Ibaraki 
Prefecture. More than 100 people attended the service in ...

17) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) January 8, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 1 
HEADLINE: MOX fuel plan shelved pending safety checks BODY: 
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) President Nobuya Minami on 
Friday told Fukushima Prefecture Gov. Eisaku Sato that a 
plan to use plutonium -uranium mixed oxide fuel at the 
power firm's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear reactor from February ...

 OCEANS 

(GREENPEACE)
18) GREENPEACE INTERFERES WITH JAPANESE WHALING IN ...
Buenos Aires, Jan 09, 2000 (EFE via COMTEX) -- 
Environmental activists from the international organization 
Greenpeace have interfered again with Japanese whaling 
vessels operating in the South Atlantic, sources confirmed 
Sunday. The activists, using rapid launches, prevented the ...

(GREENPEACE)
19) OTC 01/08 ENVIRONMENT: U.S. GOV'T ACCUSED OF ENDANGERING 
...
WASHINGTON, (Jan. 7) IPS - Environmentalists are charging 
the U.S. government with weakening regulations aimed at 
protecting dolphins threatened by tuna fleets in the 
eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Before lawmakers and ...

20) HUMANE SOCIETY WARNS AGAINST UNSAFE "DOLPHIN SAFE" TUNA  
WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2000 (ENS) - The Humane Society 
of the United States (HSUS) is warning consumers that a new 
"dolphin safe" label proposed by the U.S. Commerce 
Department (DOC) last month may not mark safe tuna. As of 
February 2, tuna caught using the "encirclement" fishing ...

(GREENPEACE)
21) The Ottawa Citizen Sunday, January 9, 2000 EDITION Final 
News PAGE A1 / FRONT Wild salmon face battle for survival: 
Introduction of genes from farmed fish threatens Atlantic 
species Tom Spears Seventh in a series Accidental 
tinkering with the genes in prized Atlantic salmon is such 
a threat that whole populations of the fish face likely ...

22) The Associated Press. January 8, 2000, HEADLINE: French 
authorities say seafood at consumer level not contaminated 
by oil spill DATELINE: BREST, France BODY: French 
authorities said Saturday that seafood already on the 
market showed no signs of contamination from an oil slick 
floating off France's northwest coast. Still, federal food ...

(GREENPEACE)
23) HEADLINE: WA: Greenpeace disrupts Japanese whaling BODY: 
WHALES PERTH, Jan 9 AAP - Environmental group Greenpeace 
had launched three inflatable boats in heavy seas in the 
Southern Ocean in an attempt to disrupt a Japanese whaling 
fleet, a spokesman today. Coordinator of the action Dima 
Litvinov claimed the inflatables successfully held up ...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

24) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Kidnapped Colombian 
environmentalist found murdered DATELINE: BOGOTA, Jan 9 
BODY: The body of kidnapped environmental activist Edulberto
Jojoa was discovered by police Saturday in the southern 
province of Narino, environmental groups here said. They 
did not immediately provide details as to the circumstances ...

 TOXICS 

25) 01/08 Germany-Toxic Shirts BERLIN (AP) -- Nike soccer  jerseys pulled
from store shelves across Germany after a  television report do not
contain a dangerous amount of a  toxic anti-bacterial chemical, the
company said Saturday.  Citing preliminary tests conducted by a
Hamburg  laboratory, Nike said the jerseys present no danger to ...

26) PA 01/09 0914 BACKYARD BONFIRES RELEASE DANGEROUS LEVELS 
OF TOXIC POL By John von Radowitz, Science Correspondent, 
PA News A family of four burning rubbish in their garden 
can release as much toxic pollution as a municipal waste 
incinerator serving thousands of households, researchers 
have found. Significant levels of potentially hazardous ...

27) CHINA NEWS January 8, 2000 SECTION: News HEADLINE: 
Legislator criticizes accident at incinerator BODY: A New 
Party legislator blast environmental protection authorities 
yesterday over the emergency shutdown of an incinerator in 
Mucha which caused mild irritants to be released into the 
air. Lee Ching-yaun said in a press conference yesterday ...

(GREENPEACE)
28) CTK Business News Wire SECTION: Business News HEADLINE: NO 
NEW SOURCE OF DDT POLLUTION AT SPOLCHEMIE FOUND DATELINE: 
USTI NAD LABEM, North Bohemia, Jan 7 ; (KLD) KEYWORD: 
'Czech chemical Spolchemie DDT 00011789' BODY: Thorough 
checks, asked for by Greenpeace and carried out in 
October-December 1999, investigating DDT occurrence in ...

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