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Global News Headlines 07/02
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Sunday, July 2, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) The Canberra Times July 2, 2000, Sunday Edition SECTION:
A;27 HEADLINE: Bus firm chief appeals to greenies for new
approach; BERRIMA BODY: THE chief of one of the country's
biggest bus companies has asked environmentalists to think
twice before complaining of diesel emissions from vehicles.
'I can understand people getting upset about the black smoke
2) New Scientist July 1, 2000 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 9
HEADLINE: Major havoc ahead BYLINE: Mick Hamer HIGHLIGHT:
Global warming will hammer transport networks BODY: ROAD
traffic will regularly grind to a halt and train services
will increasingly be disrupted as a result of global
warming, a scientist at Britain's Meteorological Office said
3) New Scientist July 1, 2000 SECTION: This Week: This Week -
Focus, Pg. 14 HEADLINE: Surviving Great Smoky BYLINE: Andy
Coghlan HIGHLIGHT: How does air pollution affect wild
plants ? This summer a team of scientists hopes to find an
answer in the notoriously smoggy mountain range BODY: TO
SUMMER hikers and tourists it may look pretty. But
ENERGY
4) 07/01 S.Africa Seeks More Volunteers for Penguin Rescue By
Ellis Mnyandu JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Conservationists
appealed urgently on Saturday for more volunteers to help
rescue thousands of oil-soaked penguins off South Africa's
Atlantic coast in one of the largest clean-up operations of
its kind. A spokeswoman for the South African National
FORESTS
5) Brazilian activists fear bio-exploitation in Amazon
BRASILIA, July 1 (Reuters) - Brazilian environmentalists
sounded an alarm on Saturday over a government decree that
they said could give foreigners access and possibly
exclusive rights to genetic material from plants and
animals in the Amazon, the world's largest rain forest.
6) Associated Press. July 1, 2000, HEADLINE: Loggers, machines
and fishermen chase submerged fortunes in Amazon BYLINE: By
HAROLD OLMOS, Associated Press Writer DATELINE: TUCURUI
LAKE, Brazil BODY: When Benedito Signey cuts a tree in the
Amazon, it falls up. He's logging a forest at the bottom of
this man-made lake in far northern Brazil. Spread over
7) Associated Press July 1, 2000, HEADLINE: Balloons ignite
fires in Rio's rain forest DATELINE: RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
BODY: Homemade hot air balloons launched at traditional June
festivals crashed in wooded areas and ignited what one
firefighting official called the largest single loss of rain
forest in Rio in the last 20 years. The fires that were
8) The Vancouver Sun July 1, 2000, FINAL SECTION: Business; D1
/ Front HEADLINE: Canfor, union reach agreement: Deal set
pattern that can be used for coastal logging negotiations,
IWA president claims. BYLINE: Gordon Hamilton, Sun Forestry
Reporter BODY: A major Interior lumber company signed a
contract with woodworkers Friday, paving the way for a
9) TASS HEADLINE: Forest fires keep raging in Russia's Far East
BYLINE: By Leonid Vinogradov DATELINE: VLADIVOSTOK, July 1
BODY: A total of 12,000 hectares of forests are engulfed in
flames in Russia's Far Eastern federal district. The biggest
forest fire has been fixed 17 kilometers from the
settlement of Urgal-2 in the Khabarovsk region, where the
GENETIC ENGINEERING
10) The Canberra Times July 1, 2000, SECTION: C;4 HEADLINE:
WOULD you accept a safety report on a car you want to buy
that had been organised by the salesman? Well, that's what
happened last week with genetically modified foods. The
regulating body, the Australian and New Zealand Food
Authority, issued safety assessments and launched an
(Greenpeace)
11) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts July 01, 2000, LENGTH: 358
words HEADLINE: Tests allegedly show Brazilians unwittingly
eat food with GM content BODY: Excerpts from report by
Brazilian newspaper 'O Globo' web site on 21st June in
Portuguese Sao Paulo: Tests conducted on 42 domestic and
imported foods sold in this country show that at least 11
(Greenpeace)
12) Newsday (New York, NY) July 2, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Page A29
LENGTH: 852 words HEADLINE: GENETIC CROPS SOW SEEDS OF
CONFLICT BRAZIL'S FARMERS, GOVERNMENT ARE AT ODDS BYLINE:
By Stephen Buckley. THE WASHINGTON POST BODY: Passo Fundo,
Brazil-Antonio is a third-generation Brazilian planter with
1,200 acres and one pit bull. The dog is not for bandits or
13) New Scientist July 1, 2000 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 11
HEADLINE: Picky pests BYLINE: Joanna Marchant BODY: THE
spread of insect resistance to the toxins in genetically
modified crops will not be slowed by encouraging pests to
live in "refuges" of weeds around the edges of farmers'
fields, say French scientists. The vulnerable insects that
14) BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Economic July 1, 2000,
HEADLINE: Russia bans sale of GM food without clear
labelling SOURCE: Radio Russia, Moscow, in Russian 1700 gmt
1 Jul 00 BODY: As of today Russia has banned the sale of GM
food and medical preparations without relevant labelling.
The labelling of this kind was itroduced by the State
(Greenpeace)
15) The New York Times July 1, 2000, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section C; Page 1; Column 5; Business/Financial
Desk LENGTH: 457 words HEADLINE: U.S. Farmers Still
Planting Biotech Crops BYLINE: By DAVID BARBOZA DATELINE:
CHICAGO, June 30 BODY: Despite growing controversy over the
use of biotechnology in agriculture, American farmers are
MILITARY
16) Chicago Tribune July 2, 2000 CHICAGOLAND FINAL EDITION
SECTION: News; Pg. 6; ZONE: C HEADLINE: REPORTS SHOW CHINA
AIDING PAKISTAN IN ITS ARMS PROGRAM BYLINE: New York Times
News Service. DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY: U.S. intelligence
agencies have told the Clinton administration and Congress
that China has continued to aid Pakistan's effort to build
17) 07/01 N. Korea Threatens Nuclear Renewal SEOUL, South Korea
(AP) -- North Korea on Saturday renewed its threat to
restart its nuclear program if Washington does not
compensate for the loss of electricity caused by delays in
building nuclear power plants in the reclusive communist
state. The United States pledged to provide North Korea
18) Sunday Mail July 2, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 35 HEADLINE:
NEW TEST ON BOMBS OFF SCOTS COAST BODY: SCIENTISTS will
start a major probe into nuclear contamination around
Kirkcudbright this month. The Government's Defence
Evaluation and Research Agency announced the testing amid
fears about more than 7000 shells fired into the Solway
NUCLEAR POWER
(Greenpeace)
19) Associated Press. June 30, 2000, LENGTH: 372 words
HEADLINE: Environmental conference bans nuclear waste
discharge into the sea BYLINE: By JAN M. OLSEN, Associated
Press Writer DATELINE: COPENHAGEN, Denmark BODY: A European
conference on protecting the northeastern Atlantic Ocean's
maritime environment has banned nuclear reprocessing plants
20) OTC Rossing Uranium Radiation Claims Refuted Windhoek,
Namibia (PANA) (Panafrican News Agency, June 30, 2000) - Two
international experts appointed by Namibia's Rossing
Uranium Limited and the Mine Workers Union (MUN) have
issued a study refuting findings by Dr Reinhard Zaire that
long-term low dose radiation exposure leads to a high
21) The Moscow Times July 1, 2000 SECTION: No. 1991 HEADLINE:
St. Pete Nuclear Station Owes Suppliers $ 182M BYLINE: By
Galina Stolyarova BODY: Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG - While
officials at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Station warn that
unless they receive a major injection of cash, the plant's
reactors will have to shut down, experts who have gathered
22) The Ottawa Citizen July 1, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; F6
HEADLINE: Fires threaten U.S.' nuclear safety: Radioactive
waste problem for arid West BYLINE: David Foster DATELINE:
RICHLAND, Washington BODY: RICHLAND, Washington -- As a
wildfire raced across the Hanford nuclear reservation in
Washington this week, long-time residents's first concerns
OCEANS
(Greenpeace)
23) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 593 words HEADLINE: Japan
denies cash for votes to block Pacific whale sanctuary
BYLINE: Martin Parry DATELINE: ADELAIDE, Australia, July 2
BODY: Japan angrily denied Sunday it was bribing developing
countries to block a proposed Pacific whale sanctaury due to
be voted on here this week. "This is absolute rubbish. We
(Greenpeace)
24) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 659 words HEADLINE: Verbal
taunts set tone for annual international whaling conference
BYLINE: Martin Parry DATELINE: ADELAIDE, Australia, July 2
BODY: A row between host Australia and Japan and Norway is
set to dominate the annual meeting of the International
Whaling Commission in Adelaide this week, with the verbal
(Greenpeace)
25) Japan Economic Newswire LENGTH: 495 words HEADLINE:
Environmental groups urge nations to back whale sanctuary
BYLINE: Maria DATELINE: ADELAIDE, Australia, July 2 Kyodo
BODY: Villanueva-Cerojano Eleven environmental groups led by
Greenpeace International on Sunday urged countries expected
to vote against a joint proposal by Australia and New
(Greenpeace)
26) HEADLINE: Fed: Pro- whaling brochure released by Japanese
LENGTH: 356 words BODY: Whaling By Shane Wright CANBERRA,
July 1 AAP - A new brochure defending Japan's continued
whaling has been released in the build up to next week's
International Whaling Committee in Adelaide. Japan Whaling
Association adviser Ms Shigeko Misaki said the brochure was
27) New Scientist July 1, 2000 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 11
HEADLINE: Caught out BYLINE: Jonathan Knight HIGHLIGHT:
Where does Japan's whale meat really come from ? BODY:
JAPAN'S annual scientific catch of whales is disguising an
undocumented trade in meat from accidentally caught and
possibly poached whales, claim researchers. According to a
28) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 01, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 14
HEADLINE: News: 'Lax EU' is blamed for North Atlantic
fishing free-for-all BYLINE: By Charles Clover, Environment
Editor BODY: A WORSENING ecological disaster is in progress
in the north- east Atlantic caused by the failure of the
European Union and its neighbours to control overfishing, a
29) OTC US Senate Introduces Legislation To Halt Shark Finning
WASHINGTON, June 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Senate has
introduced legislation to prohibit shark finning -- the
practice of cutting of a shark's fins and discarding the
remainder of its carcass back into the sea -- in all U.S.
waters and to address the issue internationally. "Senators
(Greenpeace)
30) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence July 1, 2000
SECTION: Pg. 3 LENGTH: 89 words HEADLINE: New TV ads aim to
demonise whales SOURCE: The Australian BYLINE: Amanda Hodge
ABSTRACT: The public relations war over international
whaling has become heated in late June 2000. United
States-based pro-whaling group Natural Resources Foundation
(Greenpeace)
31) The Houston Chronicle July 01, 2000, 3 STAR EDITION
SECTION: A; Pg. 38 LENGTH: 222 words HEADLINE: DRIFT NETS;
Indiscriminate fishing kills dolphins, endangered birds
SOURCE: Staff BODY: The use of finely meshed nylon drift
nets as long as five miles in length in commercial fishing
has been banned in international waters by the United
TOXICS
32) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) July 1, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 2
HEADLINE: Report: Dioxin emissions in '99 dropped 60% from
'97 levels BYLINE: Yomiuri BODY: The 1999 level of
nationwide dioxin emissions dropped about 20 percent from
that of the previous year and has plunged more than 60
percent since 1997, according to a recently released
33) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) July 1, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 2
HEADLINE: Mitsui pumped toxic waste into Osaka Bay for 14
years BYLINE: Yomiuri DATELINE: OSAKA BODY: Mitsui Chemical
Corp., a major chemical manufacturer in Takaishi, Osaka
Prefecture, has been releasing water contaminated with a
carcinogenic substance into Osaka Bay for the past 14 years
34) EPA CALLS ATRAZINE "LIKELY" CARCINOGEN WASHINGTON, DC, June
30, 2000 (ENS) - Atrazine, the most common weed killer on
the nation's farms, and a common tap water contaminant, is
more toxic than previously believed. In its first in-depth
look at the potential for atrazine to harm children, the
agency has increased its estimate of the chemical's
X-OTHER-X
(Greenpeace)
35) The Washington Post July 1, 2000, Final Edition SECTION: A
SECTION; Pg. A01 LENGTH: 1030 words HEADLINE: A Beef With
More Than Big Mac; French Trial Draws 20,000 Activists
Against Globalization BYLINE: Charles Trueheart ,
Washington Post Foreign Service DATELINE: MILLAU, France,
June 30 BODY: To hear the defendants and the 20,000
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