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Global News Headlines 01/21
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Greenpeace Daily Environmental News Headlines
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Friday, January 21, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) Warming ocean may indicate climate change LOS ANGELES,
Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Images from space showing a sprawling
region of higher than normal water temperatures lurking
below the surface of the western Pacific may indicate a
gradual climate change is taking place. Scientists have
predicted that the changes could last much longer than the ...
2) The Economist January 22, 2000 , U.S. Edition SECTION:
Greenhouse gases HEADLINE: Cost free BODY: WHAT is the cost
of carbon? This odd question is troubling the bosses of big
manufacturing companies these days. At present, the
financial cost of emitting carbon dioxide, the principal
culprit in global warming, is next to nothing, because no ...
3) 01/21 French chemical industry protests new ``eco-tax'' PARIS (AP)
-- France's chemical industry said on Friday that a new "eco-tax",
aimed at curbing the country's emissions of greenhouse gases, would
damage its ability to compete with international firms. Industry
umbrella group, the Union of Chemical Industries, said in a
statement that ...
ENERGY
4) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Talks on Caspian oil
pipeline are held in Turkey DATELINE: ANKARA, Jan 21 BODY:
Delegations from Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia met here
Friday for talks on a multi-million dolar pipeline to carry
Azeri oil to western markets via Turkey, the Anatolia news
agency reported. US special envoy to the Caspian region ...
5) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: China's Three Gorges dam
hit by 600 million-dollar graft scam BYLINE: Patrick Baert
DATELINE: BEIJING, Jan 21 BODY: China's troubled attempt to
build the world's biggest hydro- electric dam has been
dealt another blow after officials admitted the project was
riddled with corruption. In a terse single sentence in a ...
6) New Scientist January 22, 2000 SECTION: This Week: This
Week - Focus, Pg. 16 HEADLINE: Hold your breath BYLINE:
Fred Pearce (Beijing) HIGHLIGHT: Will the harsh winds of
the free market blow away pollution from the world's
biggest coal-fired economy ? BODY: CHINA has a vast
appetite for coal. It mines a third of all the coal cut ...
7) 01/21 Rio Oil Spill Hits Nature Preserve By PETER MUELLO RIO DE
JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Biologist Mario Moscatelli sat on the bank
of the Surui River and cried. Black scum from a massive oil spill
covered the rocks, sand and mangrove roots of an ecological preserve
deep in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay. "The Surui River is
practically ...
FORESTS
8) Times Colonist (Victoria) January 21, 2000 EDITION Final
Voices PAGE A9 Save old growth David Lutz As a foreigner,
it is with the greatest respect that I bluntly state the
following: I am appalled at what your government is
allowing to take place in the Great Bear Rainforest.
Since 1990, 34 intact salmon, wolf, and bear-rich river ...
9) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Tiger conservationist urges
India to frame tough laws to stem slaughter BYLINE: Abhik
Kumar Chanda DATELINE: NEW DELHI, Jan 21 BODY: A leading
tiger conservationist on Friday said the skins and parts of
at least 22 tigers had been seized across India in the past
month and called for tough anti-poaching laws to stem the ...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
(GREENPEACE)
10) 01/21 INTERVIEW: Monsanto Hopes Brazil Will Lift GMO Soy Ban By Mara
Lemos SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--High on the New Year's wish-list of
pharmaceutical and chemicals giant Monsanto Co. (MTC) is that
justice may be done and the company be allowed to sell its
genetically modified soybeans in Brazil. Public opinion concerns
aside, Monsanto ...
11) WSJ(1/21): USDA Secy Forms Panel To Advise On Crop Biotech
From The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- Agriculture
Secretary Dan Glickman is creating a 38-member committee to
advise him on crop biotechnology policy. Mr. Glickman, who
created a stir last year by calling on food companies to
voluntarily label products that contain genetically ...
(GREENPEACE)
12) Asiaweek January 21, 2000 SECTION: SPECIAL REPORT;
Society; Pg. 26 HEADLINE: SEEDS OF DIVISION BYLINE: BY
CHOONG TET SIEU With reporting by Julian Gearing/Bangkok,
Anne Meijdam/Beijing, Ritu Sarin/Delhi and Murakami
Mutsuko/Tokyo HIGHLIGHT: Nature run amok or future
cornucopia? Consumers face the furore over bio-engineered ...
(GREENPEACE)
13) THE JOURNAL (Newcastle, UK) January 21, 2000, Friday
Edition 1 SECTION: FARMING JOURNAL, Pg. 48 HEADLINE: GM
crop producers tell of mistakes in States BODY: A GROUP of
American farmers will visit the UK next month to talk to
their British counterparts about their experience of
growing GM crops. Meetings organised by the National Family ...
14) The Ottawa Citizen January 21, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News;
A1 / Front HEADLINE: Canada pushes GM foods: Sales pitch
aimed at Europe, Third World BYLINE: Pauline Tam DATELINE:
MONTREAL BODY: MONTREAL -- Canada will work aggressively to
convince Europe and developing countries at a pivotal
environmental conference next week that genetically ...
(GREENPEACE)
15) The Ottawa Citizen January 21, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News;
A4 HEADLINE: Greenpeace sounds alarm on 'super' fish:
Future of species in danger, group warns BYLINE: Pauline Tam
DATELINE: MONTREAL BODY: MONTREAL -- A Newfoundland company
on the verge of bringing the first genetically modified
fish to market is toying with a risky technology that can ...
(GREENPEACE)
16) The Ottawa Citizen January 21, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News;
A4 HEADLINE: Seagram closes door on GM crops BYLINE: David
Stonehouse BODY: Corn growers in Manitoba say they have
been told that distilling giant Seagram will not be taking
any genetically modified crops next year. Although the
company is saying little about the decision, the ...
MILITARY
17) TASS HEADLINE: Chechny'a burning oil wells threaten
environment. BYLINE: By Vladimir Nuyakshev, Yevgeny Sobetsky
DATELINE: MOZDOK, January 21 BODY: Sixteen oil wells are
burning in Chechnya. "The fires have to be extinguished
urgently to avert an ecological disaster," Alexander
Kochnev, Russian First Deputy Fuel and Energy Minister, ...
18) DISARMAMENT: DISCREPANCIES PARALYZE U.N. CONFERENCE
GENEVA, (Jan. 20) IPS - The United Nations Conference on
Disarmament opened its annual period of sessions in the
same climate of discord that has paralyzed its operations
for the last three years. The outlook for overcoming this
stagnation depends on the results of bilateral meetings ...
NUCLEAR POWER
19) TASS HEADLINE: Leningrad nuclear power plant may be halted
due to strike. BYLINE: By Denis Pinchuk DATELINE: SOSNOVY
BOR, the Leningrad region, January 21 BODY: The three
functioning reactors of the Leningrad nuclear power plant
may be halted if the power plant's personnel goes on
strike. In that case the energy system of Russia's ...
20) New Scientist January 22, 2000 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 18
HEADLINE: Hard to contain BYLINE: Rob Edwards HIGHLIGHT:
Some radioactive waste can mutate into a more mobile form
BODY: PLUTONIUM has sprung a nasty surprise. Chemists have
discovered that the compound of the metal used most by the
nuclear industry, plutonium dioxide, is not as inert as ...
21) BNFL chief exec to visit Japan to brief MITI on MOX fuel
mess DATELINE: OSAKA, Jan. 21 Kyodo BODY: The head of
British Nuclear Fuels PLC ( BNFL) will travel to Japan
early next month to brief Japanese government officials on
what to do with mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel it sent to Japan
without proper quality checks, industry sources said Friday....
22) The Toronto Star January 21, 2000, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS
HEADLINE: NUCLEAR SITES THE TARGETS IN CANCER PROBE BYLINE:
Peter Calamai BODY: Public fears spark national program to
be launched soon in Ontario Ontario OTTAWA - A new national
surveillance program will look for higher rates of cancer
among people who live near nuclear power stations, uranium ...
OCEANS
23) SA: Tuna farmers say multi-million dollar industry
threatened BODY: Tuna By Toni Jupe ADELAIDE, Jan 21 AAP -
South Australia's lucrative tuna farming industry has
threatened to go interstate or overseas if
environmentalists continue to oppose it. However,
environmentalists claim the rest of Australia doesn't want ...
24) BANGKOK POST January 21, 2000 SECTION: News HEADLINE: Laem
Chabang port told to end construction pollution - Effluent
kills half local mussel crop BODY: The Port Authority of
Thailand has been told to clean up its act after inshore
fishermen and mussel farmers complained about pollution.
The source of the pollution is berths being built at the ...
25) Tuna industry wrecking the environment, conservationists
charge DATELINE: SYDNEY, Jan. 21 Kyodo BODY: Australia's
fledgling southern bluefin tuna farming industry is
environmentally unsustainable and headed for disaster if it
does not reform its methods, conservationists warned Friday.
The warning came on the heels of a legal decision allowing ...
26) Volunteer group files damages suit over 1997 oil spill
DATELINE: KYOTO, Jan. 22 Kyodo BODY: A volunteer group
filed a 13 million yen damages suit Friday with the Kyoto
District Court over a 1997 massive oil spill from a Russian
tanker in the Sea of Japan. The Tango Volunteer Net, based
in Kyoto, is arguing the owner of the Nakhodka, Prisco ...
27) 01/21 Connecticut lobstermen seek federal help NEW HAVEN, Conn.
(Reuters) - Connecticut lobstermen, their livelihood ravaged by the
mysterious dying off of lobsters in their waters, on Friday asked
the federal government to declare an emergency in the Long Island
Sound fishery,Rep. Rosa DeLauro said. The request was made in a
conference call ...
OZONE
28) New Scientist January 22, 2000 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 18
HEADLINE: Freezing clouds threaten record Arctic ozone loss
BYLINE: Fred Pearce BODY: RECORD low air temperatures high
above the Arctic this winter are set to create the northern
hemisphere's largest ever ozone hole. "The system is primed
for ozone destruction," says Neil Harris, head of the ...
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
29) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: New diseases in wildlife
threaten to cross over to humans DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Jan
20 BODY: Human beings and biodiversity are being threatened by new
infectious diseases spreading among wildlife, according to a study
published Friday in Science magazine. "With a new wave of
globalization on an unprecedented ...
30) CHINA DAILY January 21, 2000 SECTION: News HEADLINE:
China- Environmentalists not so wild about Spring Festival
BODY: Environmentalists are urging Chinese families to keep
wild animals off their Spring Festival menus this year.
They fear the approach of the lunar new year - the most
important family get-together in the Chinese calendar - may ...
TOXICS
31) Karstadt to resume selling Nike soccer jerseys FRANKFURT,
Jan 21 (Reuters) - German retailer Karstadt Quelle AG said
on Friday its department stores will resume selling
Nike-produced Borussia Dortmund soccer jerseys on Saturday
after chemical tests proved they were safe. U.S. sportswear
maker Nike Inc. said earlier this month that initial tests ...
32) Daily Yomiuri Online January 22, 2000 Plastic bottles pile
up as recyclers unable to keep pace Ryuzo Suzuki Yomiuri
Shimbun Photographer KAWASAKI -- The pile of crushed
plastic bottles grows bigger every day at a Kawasaki
municipal waste disposal facility overlooking a road
leading to the Tokyo Bay Aqualine expressway. ...
33) 01/21 Gas Additive By JOHN HOWARD SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- It
smells like turpentine and spreads through water so quickly and
thoroughly that a scant spoonful can foul an Olympic-sized swimming
pool. MTBE, a widely used gasoline additive that makes cars burn
cleaner, has posed a cruel dilemma: It's making the air cleaner, but
it's polluting ...
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