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ATMOSPHERE

1) BBC Online You are in: World: Asia-Pacific 5 July, 2000, 
Shanghai sinking Threatened by the weight of its own 
success City engineers in Shanghai on China's east coast 
say the huge metropolis is gradually sinking into the sea. 
 According to the China Daily newspaper, China's economic 
capital and home to the country's largest port risks 

(Greenpeace)
2) 07/06 Air pollution kills 1,340 Greeks yearly-Greenpeace 
ATHENS (Reuters) - Air pollution kills an average 1,342 
Greeks a year, about half of them in Athens, which is 
notorious for its smog, Greenpeace Greece said Thursday. 
 "We know pollution kills, but until we make the number 
specific there does not seem to be enough concern to take 

3) The Irish Times July 6, 2000 SECTION: CITY EDITION; 
WEATHER; Pg. 30 HEADLINE: When will the simmering stop? 
BYLINE: By BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS BODY: The year 1999, as we 
noted yesterday in Weather Eye, was cooler than 1998. But 
it was still an estimated 0.3 degrees warmer than the 
current benchmark, the 1961-90 average. In fact, 1999 was 

4) The Toronto Star July 6, 2000, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS 
HEADLINE: GREENHOUSE GAS TREATY CALLED THREAT TO MINORITIES 
BYLINE: Brigitte Greenberg BODY: Jeopardizes jobs of U.S. 
 Hispanics and blacks, study says WASHINGTON - Hispanic and 
black Americans will suffer disproportionately if the 
United States adopts a United Nations treaty to reduce 

5) 07/06 EXP--Manmade Weather By ERIN McCLAM Associated Press 
Writer ATLANTA (AP) -- Forecasters have known for decades 
that big cities trap the sun's rays, holding the heat in 
asphalt and concrete and staying consistently warmer than 
their suburbs. But new research suggests that the "urban 
heat islands" of sprawling metropolises can actually create 

ENERGY

6) The Gazette (Montreal) July 6, 2000, FINAL SECTION: 
Editorial / Op-ed; B3 HEADLINE: Try running your car on 
salad dressing BYLINE: JOHN ROBSON BODY: Would everyone 
please shut up about gas prices already? It is ridiculous 
and undignified. Gas is incredibly cheap. I've seen people 
in the cafeteria pay $1.25 (plus tax) for 600 millilitres 

7) The Washington Times July 06, 2000, Final Edition SECTION: 
PART A; Pg. A1 HEADLINE: Colombia Indians to fight 
Occidental oil plans with lives BYLINE: Sibylla Brodzinsky; 
THE WASHINGTON TIMES DATELINE: BOGOTA, Colombia BODY: 
BOGOTA, Colombia - The U'wa Indians of northeastern Colombia
say the government will have to kill every last member of 

8) NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT July 6, 2000 HEADLINE: Oil is 
degraded slower than expected in the Arctic - study BODY: A 
recent study has shown that oil pollution may an ' 
environmental bomb' in Greenland as the oil and oil-type 
compounds are degraded slower than previously thought. It 
has been thought that oil pollution would degrade within 20 

9) Associated Press. July 6, 2000, HEADLINE: Refugee penguins 
on the mend in South Africa BYLINE: By MIKE COHEN, 
Associated Press Writer DATELINE: CAPE TOWN, South Africa 
BODY: Scrubbed shining clean, 60 penguins basked under 
infrared lights drying out their soaked feathers. Despite 
having been coated with oil, dragged from their burrows, 

(Greenpeace)
10) The Houston Chronicle July 05, 2000, 3 STAR EDITION 
SECTION: BUSINESS; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 1210 words HEADLINE: Bush 
puts new focus on refuge; He's for oil exploration in 
pristine Alaskan site SOURCE: Staff BYLINE: DAVID 
IVANOVICH, Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau DATELINE: 
WASHINGTON BODY: WASHINGTON - With motorists howling about 

FORESTS

11) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) July 6, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 1 
HEADLINE: G-8 to call for forest protection BYLINE: Yomiuri 
BODY: The Group of Eight major nations will issue a special 
document emphasizing their continued support for efforts to 
preserve the world's forests, which are rapidly being 
destroyed, government officials said Wednesday. The document

12) Africa News July 6, 2000 SECTION: NEWS, DOCUMENTS & 
COMMENTARY HEADLINE: Kenya; Low Supervisory Capacity 
Abetting Forest Destruction BYLINE: The Nation (Nairobi) 
BODY: Nairobi - The Mt. Elgon and Kakamega forests are in 
serious management crisis. Forest Department which is 
supposed to oversee this, lacks logistical and 

13) APwo 07/06 'People's draft' of forest bill clears House, 
NATION THE "people's draft" of the community forest bill 
sailed through the first reading of the House of 
Representatives yesterday. After a brief debate by MPs, the 
House voted 148-0 in support of the draft. It was the first 
draft law proposed by people outside of the government and 

(Greenpeace)
14) Associated Press. July 5, 2000, LENGTH: 728 words HEADLINE: 
Joblessness, lax control fuel Russia's illegal logging 
industry BYLINE: By ANATOLY MEDETSKY, Associated Press 
Writer DATELINE: VLADIVOSTOK, Russia BODY: In the tall, 
dense forests of Russia's Far East, small firms and 
family-run businesses turn out one of the region's biggest 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

(Greenpeace)
15) OTC 07/05 HEALTH-BRAZIL: ACTIVISTS OUTRAGED BY DECISION ON 
...
 RIO DE JANEIRO, (Jul. 4) IPS - The Brazilian Consumers 
Defense Institute (IDEC) has asked a judge to issue arrest 
warrants for the members of a government scientific 
commission that gave the go-ahead to imports of transgenic 

16) Globe and Mail, 06/07/2000, Canada (Online) Decoding the 
hype Looking for genetic cures for disease lets us sidestep 
the need to tackle the social and environmental causes, 
says Dr. Gabor Maté Expressions of near-religious awe and 
prophesies of dramatic medical advances greeted last week's 
announcement that scientists are close to deciphering the 

17) BBC Online You are in: Health 5 July, 2000, Venom to arm 
mosquito against malaria The scorpion "gene" could stop the 
parasite growing GM mosquitoes which produce a component of 
scorpion venom in their stomachs could fight malarial 
parasites, say researchers. But other experts have warned 
of the potential dangers in arming insects with anything 

18) The Times (London) July 6, 2000, SECTION: Features 
HEADLINE: Genetic gold in the data mines BYLINE: Nigel 
Hawkes BODY: THE GENETIC revolution makes strange 
bedfellows. In New Zealand, thousands of sheep are walking 
around with a gene inside them which, it turns out, came 
from a blood sample donated by a woman in Denmark during 

19) The Scotsman July 6, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 4 HEADLINE: FARMERS 
WIN 1M POUND PAYOUT AFTER GM SEED ERROR BYLINE: John Innes 
BODY: SCOTS farmers are to receive more than pounds 1 
million compensation from the Canadian firm that wrongly 
supplied them with genetically modified seed. The 
compensation package was negotiated between Advanta and the 

20) St. Louis Post-Dispatch July 6, 2000, FIVE STAR LIFT EDITION
SECTION: MADISON COUNTY POST, Pg. 1 HEADLINE: EUROPEANS SAY 
NO TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS; THE VISITING GROUP OF 
OFFICIALS WAS TOURING FARM SITES BYLINE: Shera Dalin; Of 
The Post-Dispatch DATELINE: GRANITE CITY BODY: European 
agriculture officials who recently toured the Metro East are

MILITARY

(Greenpeace)
21) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Greenpeace protests missile 
defence plan at US embassy DATELINE: MOSCOW, July 6 LENGTH: 
231 words BODY: Greenpeace protestors unfurled a huge 
banner opposite the new US embassy building in Moscow on 
Thursday to protest US plans to deploy a national missile 
defence shield. The red and yellow banner saying "Stop Star 

22) The Guardian (London) July 6, 2000 SECTION: Guardian Home 
Pages, Pg. 1 HEADLINE: Britain lifts ban on Pakistan arms 
sales BYLINE: Ewen MacAskill Diplomatic editor BODY: Ewen 
MacAskill Diplomatic editor The foreign secretary, Robin 
Cook, lifted the arms embargo on Pakistan yesterday, only 
10 months after condemning the military regime that 

23) The Guardian (London) July 6, 2000 SECTION: Guardian Leader 
Pages, Pg. 20 HEADLINE: We will all be dragged into 
America's paranoid scheme; Hugo Young The Us Tests Its 
World-destabilising Missile Knockout System Tomorrow BODY: 
In California tomorrow evening an explosive event will 
ignite the biggest threat to US relations with Europe since 

24) The New York Times July 6, 2000, Late Edition - Final 
SECTION: Section A; Page 14; Column 1; Foreign Desk 
HEADLINE: Nobel Winners Urge Halt to Missile Plan BYLINE: 
By WILLIAM J. BROAD BODY: A group of 50 Nobel laureates has 
signed an open letter to President Clinton urging him to 
reject a proposed $60 billion missile defense system. The 

NUCLEAR POWER

(Greenpeace)
25) Boston Globe page A20 (Online) West moves to retire 
Chernobyl By Daniel Simpson, Reuters, 7/6/2000 ERLIN - 
Western-led donors agreed yesterday to pledge most of the 
$768 million needed for a shell to encase the unstable 
Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but officials warned that 
political fallout from its 1986 explosion is not over. 

OCEANS

(Greenpeace)
26) IWC sees lifting of whaling ban, Japan under fire By Marie 
McInerney ADELAIDE, July 6 (Reuters) - The International 
Whaling Commission (IWC) said on Thursday it sensed a new 
momentum towards lifting a commercial whaling ban, while 
allegations of vote-buying by Japan, which still hunts the 
mammals, grew louder. Departing IWC secretary Ray Gambell 

(Greenpeace)
27) WORLD NEWS: TRADE: Harpoons ready to come out of storage: 
Even opponents of commercial whaling expect it to return 
Financial Times ; 06-Jul-2000 ; 645 words By SHAWN DONNAN 
It may be one of the easiest ways to put yourself offside 
at a dinner party just about everywhere outside Oslo and 
Tokyo: argue that there is good reason for resumption of 

28) NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT July 6, 2000 HEADLINE: Clashes 
between Danish navy and whaling protesters expected off the 
Faeroe Islands BODY: The Danish navy has reportedly sent a 
ship to deal with environmental activists off the coast of 
the Faeroe Islands. Sea Shepherd, an environmental 
organisation, has apparently set out aboard its ship 'Ocean 

29) BBC Online You are in: Sci/Tech 6 July, 2000, DNA tracking 
for whale meat Whale meat remains highly prized in Japan 
New methods of using DNA to track the sale of illegal whale 
meat have been discussed by delegates to the International 
Whaling Commission (IWC). The talks came on the final day 
of the commission's four-day meeting in Adelaide, South 

30) The Scotsman July 6, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 13 HEADLINE: NORWAY 
AGREES TO ALLOW NEW NETS BYLINE: Frank Urquhart BODY: THE 
Norwegian government finally paved the way yesterday for 
the introduction of significant changes in fishing gear to 
help to conserve threatened North Sea stocks. Earlier this 
year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation secured the 

31) 07/06 Turtles Flock to Trinidad Beach By RALPH SCHUSLER 
Associated Press Writer MANZANILLA, Trinidad (AP) -- From 
the darkened Caribbean she emerges with a splash, a 
quarter-ton reptile, heavy with eggs. Ponderously slow, 
perhaps not up to the dangers, the leatherback turtle combs 
the sand with instincts honed over millions of years. The 

32) 07/06 `Jaws' author urges conservation of endangered sharks 
By ERICA MICHELSTEIN Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) -- 
"Jaws" author Peter Benchley joined a conservation group 
Thursday in calling for an end to industrial practices that 
kill more than 100 million sharks and shark-like fish 
annually worldwide. "I don't think that we have the right 

OZONE

33) Globe and Mail, Canada (Online) Damaged plant genes linked 
to thinning ozone layer: report Agence France-Presse 
Thursday, July 6, 2000 Paris -- Depletion of the ozone 
layer is likely to inflict lasting genetic damage to plant 
life through exposure to strong ultraviolet light, 
according to new research reported today. High levels of 

TOXICS

34) APwo 07/05 Lifting the lid on garbage mountain, THE VIETNAM 
I...
 Not a single rubbish dump in Vietnam meets international 
hygiene demands, writes Ngoc Mai TO COMPLY with accepted 
global standards, a rubbish dump must qualify in three 
categories. "Its discharged water must be absorbed by a 

X-OTHER-X

35) COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Stunting green progress: A world 
environment body would create unnecessary bureaucracy and 
divert attention from existing goals, says Ca: Financial 
Times ; 06-Jul-2000 At a recent meeting of the World Bank 
in Paris, Lionel Jospin, the French prime minister, called 
on the United Nations to establish a world environment 

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