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Tuesday, June 27, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

1) BBC Online You are in: World: South Asia 26 June, 2000 The 
Ganges: Troubled waters The BBC Hindi Service's Shiv Kent 
travelled down the Ganges from its source to the delta. No 
river in the world plays a more important economic, social 
and cultural role in the lives of more people than the 
Ganges. Emerging from the central Himalayas, the river 

2) 06/27 UPDATE 2-Gore energy plan stakes out battleground By 
Randall Mikkelsen PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Democratic 
presidential candidate Al Gore's environment-and-energy 
package, which he began to unveil Tuesday, is likely to 
stake out a tough battleground in his contest with 
Republican George W. Bush. "The differences couldn't be 

ENERGY

3) COLOMBIAN OIL DRILLING BLOCKADE BROKEN BY POLICE CUBARA, 
Colombia, June 26, 2000 (ENS) - At dawn Saturday morning, 
Colombian riot police broke up a road blockade by the U'wa 
indigenous people who are protesting oil exploration by a 
U.S. company on their traditional lands. The U'wa were 
trying to prevent trucks from reaching the construction 

4) The Guardian (London) June 27, 2000 SECTION: Guardian City 
Pages, Pg. 22 HEADLINE: Nigeria fines Shell pounds 26m for 
1970 spill BYLINE: John Vidal BODY: John Vidal A Nigerourt 
has fined Shell 4bn naira ( pounds 26m) for a 30-year-old 
oil spill that contributed directly to the Ogoni uprising 
against the company which in turn led to the death of Ken 

5) Business Day (South Africa) June 27, 2000 SECTION: News; 
Pg. 1 HEADLINE: NATURE OF SEA RESCUE AID UNDER REVIEW 
BYLINE: Larry Claasen DATELINE: CAPE TOWN KEYWORD: Oil 
Spills, Pollution, Ships BODY: Government is looking at 
attaching conditions to SAs assistance to foreign ships in 
need following the sinking of the ore carrier Treasure, and 

FORESTS

6) The San Francisco Chronicle JUNE 26, 2000, FINAL EDITION 
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A1 HEADLINE: Sierra Town Draws a Line in 
the Forest; Company's clear-cutting too much for residents 
BYLINE: Glen Martin, Chronicle Staff Writer DATELINE: 
Arnold, Calaveras County BODY: It isn't about logging, said 
Warren Alford as he drove along a dusty woodland road above 

7) USA TODAY June 26, 2000, FINAL EDITION SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 
 24A HEADLINE: Added roads increase risks BODY: The 
thousands of forest fires racing back and forth across the 
American West this summer are helping rekindle a smoldering 
debate over logging in roadless national forests. Should the
nation's roadless forests remain open to future road 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

(Greenpeace)
8) The Washington Post June 27, 2000 SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. 
 A16 LENGTH: 1164 words HEADLINE: Brazil Battles Over 
Beans; Farmers at Odds Over Genetically Modified Crops 
BYLINE: Stephen Buckley , Washington Post Foreign Service 
DATELINE: PASSO FUNDO, Brazil BODY: Antonio is a 
third-generation Brazilian planter with 1,200 acres and one 

9) Reuters Brazil stops vessel carrying Argentine GM corn 
BRAZIL : June 27, 2000 SAO PAULO - A cargo of Argentine 
corn purchased by Brazilian poultry and pig farms tested 
positive for genetically modified (GM) material and may not 
enter Brazil, the Agriculture Ministry said yesterday. Last 
week, ministry analysts tested samples taken from the 

10) The Christian Science Monitor June 27, 2000 SECTION: WORLD; 
Pg. 6 HEADLINE: Seeds of doubt in patent case BYLINE: Ruth 
Walker, Staff writer Monitor DATELINE: SASKATOON AND BRUNO, 
SASKATCHEWAN HIGHLIGHT: Monsanto takes small-time Canadian 
farmer to court in case that involves biotech ownership 
rights. BODY: The little courthouse looking out onto the 

11) Reuters INTERVIEW - German govt not opposed to GM 
crops-trade group GERMANY : June 27, 2000 BONN - Germany's 
seed industry welcomed Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's 
proposal last week for extended research into genetically 
modified (GM) crops, the BDP trade association said 
yesterday. It interpreted his remarks as a cautious 

(Greenpeace)
12) Greenpeace wants GM cotton in Greece destroyed By Dina 
Kyriakidou ATHENS, June 27 (Reuters) - Greenpeace on 
Tuesday demanded the destruction of genetically-modified 
cotton it said has been planted in Greece in defiance of a 
European Union ban on gene-altered cotton seed. "There is 
only one solution: to immediately locate and destroy 

13) BUSINESSWORLD (PHILIPPINES) June 27, 2000 LENGTH: 589 words 
HEADLINE: Test sites for GM rice approved BODY: The 
National Committee on Bio-safety of the Philippines (NCBP) 
has approved in principle the proposed experimental sites 
for doing field tests on the cultivation of a genetically 
modified (GM) variety of paddy rice. Officers of the 

14) Financial Times ; 27-Jun-2000 WORLD NEWS: THE HUMAN GENOME: 
Stand by for a gene-rush COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION: 12:00:00 
am ; 804 words All right, so we have a string of chemical 
code 3bn letters long - enough to fill 800 bibles. How are 
we going to make money out of it? That, in crude terms, is 
the question that brilliant scientists, shrewd 

MILITARY

15) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: US-Russian officials to meet 
in Geneva for fresh arms talks DATELINE: MOSCOW, June 27 
BODY: US and Russian disarmament experts will hold a fresh 
round of talks on nuclear disarmament and controversial US 
missile defence plans in Geneva later this week, Russian 
diplomatic sources said. Yury Kapralov from Russia's 

16) LOCAL MAYOR PROMOTES ROCKY FLATS NUCLEAR WEAPONS SITE FOR 
RESEARCH OR SCHOOL By Brian Hansen ARVADA, Colorado, June 
26, 2000 (ENS) - The now mothballed Rocky Flats nuclear 
weapons plant - where the soil is still contaminated in 
spots with high levels of plutonium and other dangerous 
materials - might make a fine place to build a 400-acre 

NUCLEAR POWER

(Greenpeace)
17) Fed: Government officers warned against Lucas Hts health 
study BODY: CANBERRA, June 27 AAP - Federal government 
officials were cautioned against carrying out detailed 
health studies of people living near the Lucas Heights 
nuclear reactor, documents obtained under Freedom of 
Information (FOI) laws revealed today. Sutherland Shire 

(Greenpeace)
18) Deutsche Presse-Agentur June 26, 2000 HEADLINE: Most 
Europeans want end to dumping nuclear waste at sea 
DATELINE: London BODY: The overwhelming majority of 
Europeans living in countries which have nuclear 
reprocessing contracts with Sellafield in Britain and La 
Hague in France want an end to marine discharges of 

(Greenpeace)
19) 06/27 DJ Greenpeace Refuses To Leave Camera, French Waters 
CHERBOURG, France (AP)--Greenpeace activists defied an 
order Tuesday to leave French waters, where they had 
installed a camera feeding live pictures to the Internet 
from an underwater pipe discharging waste from a nuclear 
reprocessing plant. But the plant, on the northern cape of 

20) Reuters Europe could lose nuclear power by 2020-report 
SWEDEN: June 27, 2000 STOCKHOLM - European nuclear power 
could be phased out and emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) 
reduced significantly by 2020, a Swedish daily quoted a 
U.S. research group as saying, yesterday. Swedish daily 
Svenska Dagbladet said the International Project for 

OCEANS

(Greenpeace)
21) The Irish Times June 27, 2000 SECTION: CITY EDITION; 
FEATURES; Pg. 15 HEADLINE: Whither the whale? The world 
can't agree BYLINE: ALLOWING WHALE HUNTING UP TO 200 MILES 
OFFSHORE IS THE CONTROVERSIAL BODY: Despite the worldwide 
ban on whalehunting, the number of whales killed almost 
trebled between 1992 and 1997, and the members of the UN 

22) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) June 27, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 15 
HEADLINE: News: Shipping ban is needed to save right whale 
BYLINE: By Charles Clover, Environment Editor BODY: THE 
northern right whale, which has not been hunted since 1935, 
will become extinct in the Atlantic unless the United 
States and Canada take urgent action, the World Wide Fund 

23) South China Morning Post June 27, 2000 SECTION: News; Pg. 18
HEADLINE: Whale -watching harpooned BYLINE: Stanley 
Oziewicz in Toronto BODY: Whale -watching, a burgeoning 
part of Canada's tourism industry, seems to be becoming too 
popular. Prompted by scientific concern that too many 
uncontrolled whale -watchers may be having a harmful effect 

24) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Pollution -hit France loses 
beach accolade to Spain PARIS, June 27 (AFP) - France lost 
its place at the top of the list of Europe's cleanest 
beaches Tuesday as it struggled to mop up after last 
December's oil slick off the coast of Brittany. Some 35 
communes along France's Atlantic coast failed to win the 

25) Deutsche Presse-Agentur June 27, 2000 HEADLINE: Japanese 
dolphin hunting highlighted ahead of IWC meeting DATELINE: 
London BODY: Commercial hunting along the coast of Japan 
has killed more than 400,000 dolphins, porpoises and small 
whales over the past 20 years, according to a report by the 
London-based Environmental Investigation Agency published 

TOXICS

26) AP Worldstream June 27, 2000 HEADLINE: Report: 
Environmental protection becomes source of crisis in 
enlargement talks DATELINE: BRUSSELS, Belgium BODY: It will 
cost 120 billion euros (dllrs 113 billion) for East 
European nations seeking European Union membership to comply
with EU environmental norms, but no candidate comes close to

27) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Sewage-loving bug helps 
clean up environment DATELINE: PARIS, June 27 BODY: A bug 
found in sewage water has pointed the way to cleaning up 
tetrachloroethylene (PCE), a dangerous industrial compound 
that has become an environmental headache, the journal 
Nature Biotechnology reports in July's issue. PCE, a 

28) Business Times (Malaysia) June 27, 2000 SECTION: Nation; 
Pg. 3 HEADLINE: Turning waste to profit BYLINE: By Lokman 
Mansor BODY: IN MANY countries, incineration has been the 
primary treatment method for municipal solid waste for 
decades. Now there is an alternative method, using new 
technology which may not only minimise the impact on the 

(Greenpeace)
29) Greenpeace takes toxic waste to Roche chairman's home 
ZURICH, June 27 (Reuters) - Greenpeace activists delivered 
a barrel of toxic waste to the home of Roche Chairman Fritz 
Gerber on Tuesday to press home demands that Swiss 
companies clean up a chemical landfill in western 
Switzerland. The environmentalists blocked off the entryway 

30) Financial Times ; 27-Jun-2000 INSIDE TRACK: Growing pains: 
ENVIRONMENT ORGANIC FARMING: Iceland's decision to sell 
organic food at no extra cost to the customer has mixed 
blessings for the nascent industry, writes Michela Wrong 
982 words When Iceland recently announced it was "going 
organic", at no extra cost to the customer, the UK retailer 

31) Paducah plant contamination in food chain PADUCAH, Ky., 
June 26 (UPI) -- Federal government documents indicate 
radioactive and chemical contamination from the Paducah 
uranium plant has entered the western Kentucky food chain, 
the Louisville Courier-Journal reported Monday. The 
newspaper cited U.S. Department of Energy documents that 

32) Los Angeles Times June 27, 2000, Orange County Edition 
SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 1; Metro Desk HEADLINE: NAVY 
SEEKS LIMITS ON ITS CLEANUP AT EL TORO; UNIT WANTS TO CURB 
ITS RESPONSIBILITY TO $8 MILLION OF THE $35 MILLION NEEDED 
TO SOLVE THE BASE'S GROUND-WATER WOES. BYLINE: SEEMA MEHTA, 
TIMES STAFF WRITER BODY: Despite repeated pledges to clean 

X-OTHER-X

33) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Internal report criticises 
World Bank China project BYLINE: Stephen Collinson 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, June 26 BODY: An internal review has 
harshly criticised aspects of a hotly- contested World Bank 
anti-poverty project in China which opponents claim will 
trigger a destructive tide of migration and threaten 

34) Reuters Ralph Nader nominated for president by Green Party 
USA : June 27, 2000 DENVER - The U.S. Green Party 
overwhelmingly nominated consumer advocate Ralph Nader as 
their presidential candidate on a platform of protecting 
the environment and giving more power to working people. 
 "The plight of labour in this country has to become a 

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