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Global News Headlines 04/14
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Friday, April 14, 2000
Greenbase Unit
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ATMOSPHERE
1) New Scientist April 15, 2000 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 6
HEADLINE: Why a change of diet is good for the environment
BYLINE: Andy Coghlan BODY: BY FEEDING cows and sheep a
daily dose of methane-munching bacteria, researchers in
Scotland hope to limit the animals' contributions to global
warming. Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse ...
2) 04/14 Agriculture-Global Warming By LIBBY QUAID Associated Press
Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- As farm groups gathered on the National
Mall to mark their own version of Earth Day, lawmakers focused on
how farming practices can help prevent global warming. A consortium
of scientists from Kansas State University and other institutions
showed simple ways ...
3) Report says U.S. power plants emit tons of pollution By
Patrick Connole WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - A new
study released on Thursday blamed the dirtiest U.S. power
plants for pumping 2 billion tons of pollution into the air,
causing smog, global warming and scores of health and
environmental problems. The report, from U.S. Public ...
ENERGY
(GREENPEACE)
4) 04/14 BP Amoco Shareholders Defeat Bid By BRUCE STANLEY AP Business
Writer LONDON (AP) -- BP Amoco PLC weathered a surprisingly strong
challenge to its environmental record when shareholders defeated a
measure that would have blocked the company from drilling for oil in
a pristine tract of northern Alaska. The vote Thursday came hours ...
FORESTS
5) New Scientist April 15, 2000 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 9
HEADLINE: At last, a clear-cut way to predict landslides
BYLINE: Jeff Hecht BODY: CLEARING hillside forests can
trigger landslides, with disastrous consequences. Now
geologists have found a way to predict the location of
landslide hotspots, information that could be vital for ...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
(GREENPEACE)
6) Austria bans Aventis' gene-modified maize VIENNA, April 13
(Reuters) - Austria on Thursday banned imports of Aventis'
genetically-modified maize on the grounds there were no
available studies on the long-term impact the crop would
have on the environment. "Austria is no laboratory and it
is of utmost concern that we maintain Austria as a provider ...
7) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, UPDATE - FAO official sees risks from
gene foods ITALY: April 14, 2000 ROME - A senior official
of the U.N.'s world food body has acknowledged "potential
risks" from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to human
health and the environment and advised risk assessment on a
case by case basis. "We do acknowledge that there are ...
8) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Futures trading in non-GM
soybeans to start in May DATELINE: TOKYO, April 14 Kyodo
BODY: The Tokyo Grain Exchange decided Friday to list edible
soybeans that contain no genetically modified organisms (
GMOs) as a new futures contract, exchange officials said.
The new non- GMO futures trading will be based on soybeans ...
(GREENPEACE)
9) Greenpeace Mexico decries imports of U.S. GM corn MEXICO
CITY, April 13 (Reuters) - Environmental group Greenpeace
on Thursday made a formal complaint to the Mexican
government about increasing imports of transgenic corn from
the United States it alleges could be a health risk. It
urged greater vigilance of imports of corn -- a mainstay of ...
10) BANGKOK POST April 14, 2000 HEADLINE: Tuna firms say
certification could help end ban by Saudi Arabia BODY: The
local tuna industry and the government are continuing their
effort to overturn a Saudi Arabian ban on Thai canned tuna.
They are seeking ways to assure the Saudi government that
local canneries use soybean oil that does not contain ...
11) New Scientist April 15, 2000 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 4
HEADLINE: Judging gene foods BYLINE: Andy Coghlan
HIGHLIGHT: An impartial panel could quell health and
environmental fears BODY: ARE genetically modified foods
safe to eat ? A grand forum of internationally renowned
scientists and other experts might soon be helping the ...
(GREENPEACE)
12) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) April 14, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 06
LENGTH: 191 words HEADLINE: Pollen 'could contaminate
GM-free food' BYLINE: By Charles Clover Environment Editor
BODY: THE chairman of Iceland, the supermarket chain, told
a court yesterday that it was almost "biologically
impossible" for products to be completely free of ...
(GREENPEACE)
13) The Herald (Glasgow) April 12, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 9 LENGTH:
428 words HEADLINE: Government assures environmentalists over
development of GM super-salmon BYLINE: Craig Watson BODY: THE
Scottish Executive and fish-farming industry leaders yesterday
played down fears that genetically-modified "super salmon''
developed in Canada ...
14) Biofoods may be safer than conventional crops-US panel By
Julie Vorman WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - A
Congressional panel said on Thursday genetically modified
foods may be safer to eat than conventional crops, and
blamed European activists for undermining public confidence
in biofoods. A 79-page report prepared by a House Science ...
15) New Scientist April 15, 2000 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 17
HEADLINE: Pockets of resistance BYLINE: Andy Coghlan
HIGHLIGHT: A pest might make a comeback thanks to engineered
"weeds" BODY: FIELDS where genetically modified cotton
plants spring up as weeds in other crops could provide
refuge for the cotton boll weevil, warn entomologists in ...
MILITARY
16) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Hiroshima to gather peace
messages to send to NPT conference DATELINE: HIROSHIMA,
April 14 Kyodo BODY: The city of Hiroshima is calling on
mayors belonging to a world peace conference to submit
messages of peace to be delivered to a conference reviewing
the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) later this ...
17) AP Worldstream April 14, 2000; HEADLINE: Russian lawmakers
approve START II BYLINE: BARRY RENFREW DATELINE: MOSCOW
BODY: Ending years of deadlock, lawmakers on Friday
approved the START II treaty to scrap thousands of U.S. and
Russian nuclear warheads, but the government warned it
would abandon all arms- control pacts if Washington goes ...
NUCLEAR POWER
(GREENPEACE)
18) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence April 14, 2000
HEADLINE: Green light for new nuclear reactor SOURCE: The
Australian Financial Review BYLINE: Robin Robertson
ABSTRACT: A new nuclear reactor will be built in Sydney's
south in 2000. The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology
Organisation (ANTSO) is expected to choose from one of four ...
(GREENPEACE)
19) Europe Energy April 14, 2000 HEADLINE: GERMANY ORDERS
SAFETY CHECKS ON COGEMA'S MIXED OXIDE FUEL PLANT BODY:
Germany ordered safety checks on nuclear fuel supplied to
its reactors by France's Cogema after the firm said computer
software problems at one of its plants meant quality
controls went unrecorded. Cogema denied a report that its ...
20) The Guardian (London) April 14, 2000 SECTION: Guardian Home
Pages; Pg. 5 HEADLINE: Ahern to tax Blair over BNFL
influence with ministers BYLINE: David Hencke and Rob Evans
BODY: David Hencke and Rob Evans The Irish prime minister,
Bertie Ahern, is to ask Tony Blair why British Nuclear
Fuels appears to be able to dictate the wording of a reply ...
21) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Taiwan to review 5.6 billion
dollar nuclear project DATELINE: TAIPEI, April 14 BODY:
Taiwan economic minister-to-be Lin Hsin-yi said Friday he
would re-evaluate a controversial nuclear power plant worth
5.6 billion US dollars. "The country's fourth nuclear project is not
only an economic issue. It also involves ...
22) The Independent (London) April 14, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg.
2 HEADLINE: BRITAIN REFUSES TO ACCEPT ANY SUSPECT FUEL BACK FROM
JAPAN BYLINE: Richard Lloyd Parry And Severin Carrell BODY: THE
BRITISH Government is blocking Japanese demands that suspect nuclear
fuel be returned to the UK, seven months after BNFL misled Japan
about its safety, provoking ...
OCEANS
23) Sydney investigation seizes 330kg of abalone SYDNEY, April
14 AAP - Illegal abalone worth more than $40,000 has been seized in
Sydney by New South Wales Fisheries it was revealed today. Fisheries
Minister Eddie Obeid today said 330 kilograms of the quick frozen
abalone meat, the equivalent to about one tonne of live weight
abalone in the ...
24) The Economist April 15, 2000 , U.S. Edition HEADLINE: An
elephantine problem HIGHLIGHT: Trade in rare species should
be permitted, but only if it can be monitored to ensure it
does not endanger the species' survival BODY: "NUKE the
whales" was a popular slogan among the politically
incorrect in the 1980s. That is going a bit far. But the ...
(GREENPEACE)
25) Miami New Times April 13, 2000, SECTION: Food LENGTH: 1500
words HEADLINE: Dish; Dig In, It's Endangered Species!
BYLINE: Jen Karetnick BODY: I confess I didn't know I had
done something immoral until my editor informed me. "You
ate shark's fin soup?" he cried over the phone. "Don't you
know what they do to those poor sharks?" "They," as it ...
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
26) 04/14 Africans Trying for Compromise Deal on Elephants By Kieran
Murray NAIROBI (Reuters) - African nations are locked in difficult
negotiations aimed at finding a compromise deal on controversial
proposals to relax the global ban on ivory sales, officials said on
Friday. The debate pits four southern African nations who want to ...
(GREENPEACE)
27) The Economist April 15, 2000 , U.S. Edition LENGTH: 1274
words HEADLINE: Excitement at CITES DATELINE: nairobi
HIGHLIGHT: Every two years, the delicate sensibilities of
conservationists are roughed up by a bunch of hard-nosed
diplomats at an international meeting on trade in
endangered species BODY: DANIEL ARAP MOI, Kenya's ...
TOXICS
28) Six hospitalised after gas leak SYDNEY, April 14 AAP - Six
men were hospitalised today after being exposed to chlorine
liquid gas at Matraville in Sydney's south. A gas leak on
Beauchamp Road, resulted in the men complaining of varying
degrees of throat irritation and burning and breathing
difficulties. One man also suffered chemical burns to his ...
29) PA 04/14 EU GETS TOUGH ON PCB HAZARD By Geoff Meade,
European Editor, PA News in Brussels Britain and 13 other
EU member states have been threatened with court action by
the Brussels Commission over the disposal of hazardous PCB
chemicals. Only Finland has so far complied with a
requirement to notify Brussels of national plans to deal ...
30) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, Belgium extends plan to destroy
dioxin products BELGIUM: April 14, 2000 BRUSSELS - The
Belgian government said on Wednesday it would extend by one
year an order to use cement plant furnaces to destroy the
country's remaining thousands of tonnes of
dioxin-contaminated products. Belgium still has about ...
31) The Toronto Star April 14, 2000 Edition 1 SECTION: T05
HEADLINE: COWS ARE GETTING SICK BY EATING YUKKY PLASTIC BAGS
BYLINE: John Goddard BODY: SPECIAL TO THE STAR BAMAKO, Mali
- Thin plastic bags are posing a bizarre threat to cows and
sheep in the West African country of Mali. Bags not much
thicker than cellophane are used to sell cold drinking ...
(GREENPEACE)
32) UK MOVES TO ELIMINATE TOXIC PCBs LONDON, UK, April 13, 2000
(ENS) - The United Kingdom announced new measures today to
phase out and dispose of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs). Environment Minister Michael Meacher said the
regulations are intended to reduce environmental damage
from the chemicals, which can harm sea mammals including ...
33) THE JOURNAL (Newcastle, UK) April 14, 2000, Edition 1
SECTION: REGIONAL NEWS, Pg. 25 HEADLINE: More tests as
dioxins increase BYLINE: by Tony Henderson environment
Editor BODY: RAISED levels of toxic dioxins have been found
in soil samples from allotments near a controversial
incinerator. Currently Newcastle City Council is removing ...
34) 04/13 Pesticides-Children By SHANNON McCAFFREY Associated Press
Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government is failing to
protect children working in farm fields from exposure to potentially
dangerous pesticides, according to a report released on Thursday by
Congress' nonpartisan investigative arm. The General Accounting
Office report ...
X-OTHER-X
35) 04/13 Protest Directors By TRACI CARL Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Upstairs, protesters learn first aid and how to
cope with tear gas as they vent their anger against international
financial institutions. Outside, leaders teach how to form
blockades. A diverse group of activists, the protesters are mutually
committed to ...
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