Global News Headlines 01/13

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Thursday, January 13, 2000
Greenbase Unit
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 ATMOSPHERE 

1) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Warming of Earth's surface 
real and accelerating - US study DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Jan 
12 BODY: The Earth's surface is heating up significantly  and at an
accelerating rate, according to a study published  Wednesday by the
US National Academy of Sciences. The study  asserts that global
warming is "undoubtedly real," despite ...

2) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) 
January 13, 2000 SECTION: Opinion; Pg. 8 HEADLINE: Stop 
Dumping Society's Environmental Qualms on Scientists 
BYLINE: By Ana M. Soto and Carlos Sonnenschein; 
International Herald Tribune DATELINE: BOSTON BODY: 
Europeans and Americans react to the introduction of ...

3) South China Morning Post January 13, 2000 SECTION: News; 
Pg. 8 HEADLINE: Eight cities make air, water grade BYLINE: 
DANIEL KWAN BODY: Only eight mainland cities meet both the 
air and water quality standards, Xinhua reported yesterday. 
Quoting statistics published by the State Environmental 
Protection Administration, the news agency said all ...

(GREENPEACE)
4) The Dominion (Wellington) January 12, 2000 SECTION: NEWS; 
NATIONAL; Pg. 18 HEADLINE: Global warming 'for real' - 
Greenpeace BODY: NEW figures showing increasingly warm 
temperatures in New Zealand and around the world confirmed 
that global warming was "really happening", a Greenpeace 
climate campaigner said yesterday. Findings issued ...

5) The Guardian (London) January 13, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
Foreign Pages; Pg. 17 HEADLINE: Italian cities make Sunday 
a day of rest for the car; A passion that causes 15,000 
deaths a year is being curbed BYLINE: Rory Carroll in Rome 
BODY: Rory Carroll in Rome Fourteen Italian cities, 
including Rome, Florence and Milan, will from next month ...

 ENERGY 

6) Reuters Aker Maritime, BP Amoco partners in gas power  
NORWAY: January 13, 2000 OSLO - Norwegian offshore 
services company Aker Maritime , with assistance from BP 
Amoco , can build an emission-free gas power plant within 
three years in Norway, Norwegian daily Dagsavisen said 
yesterday. ...

7) Deutsche Presse-Agentur January 13, 2000 HEADLINE: Author 
Arundhati Roy freed after for anti-dam protest in India 
DATELINE: New Delhi BODY: Internationally acclaimed author 
Arundhati Roy has been freed after a four-hour detention by 
police in central India for protesting against erecting a 
dam and power plant, witnesses said Thursday. Film maker ...

8) 01/13 Clinton Wants Biofuel Production By JENNIFER LOVEN  WASHINGTON
(AP) -- Aiming to replace fossil fuels with  cleaner, renewable
energy sources, President Clinton is  proposing to more than double
federal spending on efforts to turn corn husks, chicken droppings and
other waste into  power for cars and buildings, White House officials
said ...

 FORESTS 

9) Reuters U.S. appeals environmental ruling on trade panels 
USA: January 12, 2000 WASHINGTON - The Clinton 
administration said yesterday it appealed a federal judge's 
decision ordering U.S. Trade Representative Charlene 
Barshefsky to name environmentalists to two panels advising 
her on wood and paper products. ...

10) Deutsche Presse-Agentur January 13, 2000 HEADLINE: 
Cambodia accuses officials in illegal logging "conspiracy" 
DATELINE: Phnom Penh BODY: Cambodia's deputy prime 
minister, in an unprecedented move, accused six 
high-ranking officials on Thursday of corruption and 
conspiring to smuggle illegally cut timber across the ...

11) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) 
January 13, 2000, SECTION: Feature; Pg. 10 HEADLINE: Is the 
Conservation Battle Lost? BYLINE: By William K. Stevens; 
New York Times Service DATELINE: NEW YORK BODY: The 
peregrine falcon, California condor, American alligator and 
bald eagle pull back from the brink of extinction. ...

12) Broadcast News January 13, 2000 Haida-Logging Suit 
VANCOUVER -- The Haida Nation has gone to court to try to 
block the transfer of timber rights from MacMillan Bloedel 
to Weyerhaeuser. 
The caseinvolves Tree Farm Licence 39 on the Queen 
Charlotte Islands. ...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

13) BusinessWorld January 13, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 21 HEADLINE: 
Vatican says yes to plant, animal engineering BODY: Despite 
controversy surrounding the ill effects of biotechnology, 
top Catholic Church officials are convinced that this 
latest progeny of science is a gain rather than a loss to 
humanity. Biotechnology, or the use of biological ...

14) The Mirror January 13, 2000, Thursday SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 25
HEADLINE: WE'RE NOT SERVING UP MUTANT KFC CHICKEN; FAST 
FOOD GIANT BLASTS SICK HOAX BYLINE: Christian Fraser BODY: 
RESTAURANT chain KFC is the victim of a sick hoax claiming 
it has replaced chickens with a genetically modified 
organism. Campaigners have sent an e-mail to 100,000 people ...

15) Food production intertwined with medicine, environment in 
futurist vision Source: Associated Press Publication date: 
Jan 13, 2000 GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) -- Widespread social 
and lifestyle changes, coupled with unprecedented household 
wealth, will allow 21st Century farmers to use emerging 
technologies to deliver safer, healthier foods to consumers ...

16) Scientists report on new golden, vitamin-rich rice By 
Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON, 
Jan 13 (Reuters) - Scientists who have genetically 
engineered a golden rice that produces extra vitamin A 
reported details of their accomplishment on Thursday, 
saying it could help save the lives of millions of children....

17) POLL-U.S. farmers plan decline in biotech crops By Randy 
Fabi HOUSTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers plan to cut 
back sharply their plantings of genetically modified 
soybeans, corn and cotton this year, partly in response to 
a European backlash against bioengineered foods, a Reuters 
straw poll said on Thursday. Reuters surveyed 400 U.S. ...

 MILITARY 

18) U.S. won't stop subcritical nuclear testing, adviser says 
BYLINE: Kakumi Kobayashi DATELINE: TOKYO, Jan. 13 Kyodo 
BODY: will continue carrying out subcritical nuclear tests 
under the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to check 
nonnuclear parts of weapons, a senior U.S. State Department 
adviser said Thursday. 'We aren't proceeding to develop new ...

19) British arms sales to Indonesia set to resume LONDON, Jan. 
13 (Kyodo) -- British arms sales to Indonesia are to resume  after a
weapons embargo of the European Union against the  country is allowed
to expire from Monday, according to  Britain's Press Association
(PA). Foreign Office Minister  John Battle told the agency Thursday
that the four-month ...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

20) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Another Japanese nuclear 
company shies away from MOX fuel BYLINE: Shino Yuasa 
DATELINE: TOKYO, Jan 13 BODY: Following in the footsteps of 
two major nuclear power companies, Japan Atomic Power Co. 
said Thursday it was postponing plans to use mixed 
plutonium -uranium oxide (MOX) fuel. Use of the fuel has ...

21) The Guardian (London) January 13, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
Home Pages; Pg. 11 HEADLINE: Alarm at gunboat demand for 
plutonium's return trip BYLINE: Paul Brown Environment 
Correspondent BODY: Japan's biggest nuclear power company 
yesterday demanded that Britain send two gunboats on a 
40,000 mile round trip to pick up a shipment of ...

 OCEANS 

22) Reuters Northeast U.S. dolphin deaths concern scientists  
USA: January 13, 2000 MYSTIC - An unusual number of 
dolphins have been beaching themselves or washing up dead 
on the northeastern U.S. coast since early November, 
possibly due to a virus or infection, an official at a 
Connecticut aquarium said yesterday. ...

23) The Age, Online, Undersea maps discover potential fishing 
wealth By ANDREW DARBY HOBART 13 January 2000 Scientists 
mapping Australia's undersea landforms have unveiled data 
that could offer new fishing grounds and mineral wealth. 
Using sonar and seismic techniques, they rolled the sea 
back to show landforms to the scientists assembling data ...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

24) The Irish Times January 13, 2000 SECTION: CITY EDITION; 
HOME NEWS; Pg. 7 HEADLINE: Byrne warns funds may be 
withheld for food breaches European Commissioner says 
priority is to restore consumer confidence after recent 
scares BYLINE: By PATRICK SMYTH DATELINE: BRUSSELS BODY: 
The European Commission will consider whether it should ...

25) The Times (London) January 13, 2000, SECTION: Overseas news
HEADLINE: Cloning could recreate extinct goat BYLINE: Giles 
Tremlett in Madrid BODY: Spanish scientists are planning to 
carry out the first example of reversing the extinction of 
an animal species by cloning the cells of a Pyrenean 
mountain goat which died last week. The last surviving ...

26) PROTECTION FUNDED FOR ANIMALS AT RISK IN CONGO WAR ZONE  
PARIS, France, January 12, 2000 (ENS) - Endangered species 
in five national parks of war-torn Central Africa will 
benefit from $2.9 million newly pledged by the United 
Nations Foundation. The money will support a project of the 
UNESCO's World Heritage Centre to conserve biodiversity in ...

 TOXICS 

27) Asahi News Service January 13, 2000 HEADLINE: THOSE WHO 
MAKE THE MESS SHOULD HAVE TO CLEAN IT UP BODY: Asahi 
Shimbun said in an editrial: Tons of waste shipped to the 
Philippines under the ruse that it was ''recyclable waste'' 
has been returned to Japan. The consignment included such 
medical waste as used hypodermic syringes and disposable ...

28) Calgary Herald January 13, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; B7 
HEADLINE: Remote radar station ablaze BYLINE: The Canadian 
Press DATELINE: VICTORIA ISLAND, Nunavut BODY: Toxic 
chemicals may be involved in a fire burning unchecked at a 
remote Arctic radar station, federal officials say. The 
fire started Monday at the unstaffed military station on ...

(GREENPEACE)
29) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) 
January 13, 2000 SECTION: Finance; Pg. 16 HEADLINE: Hong 
Kong Industry Swirls Over Bath-Toy Risk BYLINE: By Philip 
Segal ; International Herald Tribune DATELINE: HONG KONG 
BODY: Rubber Duckie, a dear bath toy to many children, is 
becoming dearer. Because of a European Commission ban ...

30) 01/13 DJ Monsanto's $550M Brazil Roundup Plant Building  Starts Fri
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--U.S. agribusiness giant  Monsanto Co (MTC)
will lay the cornerstone of its $550  million herbicide plant on
Brazilian soil Friday to produce  its big-selling Roundup. The hefty
investment on what is  Monsanto's first herbicide raw material plant
in the ...

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