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Global News Headlines 07/07
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Friday, July 7, 2000
Greenbase Unit
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ATMOSPHERE
1) The Scotsman July 7, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 2 HEADLINE: ASTHMA
LEVELS SOARING IN ADULTS BYLINE: Maxine Frith BODY: ASTHMA
rates among adults have more than doubled in the last two
decades, research in the west of Scotland has shown. The
findings of the study in Renfrew and Paisley were published
in the British Medical Journal today. Researchers found
2) Associated Press. July 7, 2000, HEADLINE: Towers, changing
climate blamed for deaths of songbirds DATELINE: HANOVER,
N.H. BODY: Communications towers and a changing global
climate are thinning out populations of migratory
songbirds, two studies have found. A 13-year study by
Dartmouth College and Tulane University, published in the
ENERGY
3) AP Worldstream July 7, 2000; HEADLINE: Greece, Turkey work
toward gas pipeline connection DATELINE: BRUSSELS, Belgium
BODY: Greece and Turkey agreed Friday to work together to
develop connections between their natural gas networks and
increase energy cooperation that could lead to new
pipelines connecting Europe to the oil and gas-rich Caspian
4) The Economist July 08, 2000 , U.S. Edition SECTION: Thailand
HEADLINE: Rural unrest DATELINE: UBON RATCHATHANI BODY: TWO
months ago more than 1,500 fishermen and farmers occupied
the Pak Mun hydroelectric dam in the rural north-east of
Thailand. A group of protesters also took over another big
dam in the area, but later they retreated. Many of those at
5) Reuters UK govt not doing enough on renewables - minister
UK : July 7, 2000 LONDON - Britain's environment minister
admitted yesterday that his government needed to do more to
develop renewable energy resources. "The government is not
doing enough," said Michael Meacher, minister of state for
the environment, who added "we need to incentivise
6) The Economist July 08, 2000 , U.S. Edition HEADLINE: The
battle in the Arctic DATELINE: caribou pass and kaktovik,
alaska BODY: BETTER late than never. Delayed by heavy snow
and a late melt, tens of thousands of caribou are on the
move, migrating to their traditional calving and summer
feeding grounds. With booms as thunderous as bursting
FORESTS
7) The Vancouver Sun July 7, 2000, FINAL SECTION: Business; F1
/ Front HEADLINE: Tentative coastal forest accord called
union victory BYLINE: Michael McCullough, Sun Business
Reporter BODY: The strike by 12,000 sawmill workers on the
B.C. coast ended Thursday as a tentative contract was
reached between IWA-Canada and Forest Industrial Relations.
8) ASIA PULSE HEADLINE: INDONESIAN MINISTER BELIEVES IMF WILL
AGREE TO LOG EXPORT BAN DATELINE: JAKARTA, July 7 BODY:
Forestry and Plantations Minister Nur Mahmudi Ismail
expressed optimism that the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) would agree to a ban on log exports to preserve
forests in Indonesia. "With God's blessings, the plan will
9) Italy to crack down on forest arsonists ROME, July 6
(Reuters) - Italy plans to introduce tough jail terms for
people caught setting forests on fire, a government
spokesman said on Thursday. He made the comment as
firefighters and helicopters battled blazes in central and
southern Italy. "People caught starting forest fires could
(Greenpeace)
10) APwo 07/07 Greenpeace Activists Do Battle in Pacific, THE
ST....
VLADIVOSTOK, Far East-The Rainbow Warrior, the vessel on
which Greenpeace activists sail the Pacific to wage war
against environmental threats, has found a fertile new
battleground in the waters between Russia and Japan. On
GENETIC ENGINEERING
11) Doctors join consumers in bid against industry GM labels
BODY: Genetic Nightlead By Linda McSweeny CANBERRA, July 7
AAP - Doctors today pitched camp with consumers to battle
government and industry on impending labelling for
genetically modified (GM) foods, arguing their set of rules
were dangerous. Prime Minister John Howard is awaiting
12) Why did the Brazilians cross the road? SAO PAULO, July 6
(Reuters) - Hungry Brazilians packed the dockside of a
northern city on Thursday to snap up 20,000 chickens given
away by farmers angry at a government ban on imports of
genetically modified food, local media reported. The
farmers, ruffled over shortages of corn to feed their birds,
13) New Scientist July 8, 2000 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 7
HEADLINE: Pass it on BYLINE: Andy Coghlan HIGHLIGHT: Mice
really can inherit an artificial chromosome BODY: IT TOOK
more than a decade for the Human Genome Project to sequence
the 24 different human chromosomes, but already other
researchers are preparing to take another huge step. They
14) Europe Agri July 7, 2000 SECTION: No. 70 HEADLINE:
TRANSGENIC RAPE: ONLY UK FARMERS EARMARKED FOR ADVANTA
COMPENSATION HIGHLIGHT: The Advanta Seeds company is
planning to compensate British farmers for rapeseed
harvests contaminated by genetically - modified organisms (
GMOs) . The compensation will amount to GBP337 per hectare
15) The Times (London) July 7, 2000, SECTION: Home news
HEADLINE: Plump tomato has link with cancer gene BYLINE:
Nigel Hawkes BODY: The gene that turned tiny wild tomatoes
into the plump fruit on supermarket shelves could also be
involved in human cancers. Scientists at Cornell University
in Ithaca, New York, were looking for the mechanisms that
MILITARY
(Greenpeace)
16) Greenpeace enters U.S. base to block missile test
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., July 7 (Reuters) - The
environmental group Greenpeace has sent several protesters
into this military base in a move to prevent the $100
million test of a planned U.S. National Missile Defence
system scheduled for later on Friday. Greenpeace said
17) The Guardian (London) July 7, 2000 SECTION: Guardian Home
Pages, Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Clinton wants Dollars 60bn missile
defence system to fail test BYLINE: Julian Borger in
Washington BODY: Senior officials in the state department,
the Pentagon and the White House itself are opposed to a
planned Dollars 60bn missile defence system and are
(Greenpeace)
18) Los Angeles Times July 7, 2000, Home Edition SECTION: Part
A; Part 1; Page 3; Metro Desk LENGTH: 1115 words HEADLINE:
CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST; VANDENBERG LAUNCH TO BEGIN MISSILE
DEFENSE FLIGHT TEST; MILITARY: THE PENTAGON HOPES TO
DETERMINE IF THE COMPONENTS OF THE CONTROVERSIAL SYSTEM CAN
WORK TOGETHER TO KNOCK DOWN A DUMMY WARHEAD. BYLINE: PAUL
(Greenpeace)
19) The New York Times July 7, 2000, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section A; Page 4; Column 3; Foreign Desk LENGTH:
509 words HEADLINE: Critics Asking Clinton to Stop
Advancing Missile Plan BYLINE: By ELAINE SCIOLINO DATELINE:
WASHINGTON, July 6 BODY: A leading critic of national
missile defense, Theodore A. Postol, said in a letter to
NUCLEAR POWER
(Greenpeace)
20) CTK National News Wire July 6, 2000 SECTION: General News
LENGTH: 302 words HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO APPEAL
SUJBS DECISION ON TEMELIN BYLINE: VV DATELINE: CESKE
BUDEJOVICE/PRAGUE, July 6 ; (VV) KEYWORD: 'Czech
environment Temelin appeal' BODY: The environmental groups
Hnuti Duha, Jihoceske matky, Greenpeace and Calla have
21) TEPCO says to reopen radiation-hit nuclear plant TOKYO,
July 7 (Reuters) - A 1,100-megawatt nuclear reactor in
Japan, closed last week after radiation was found in water
that had leaked from cracked pipes, will soon be reopened
by Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc (TEPCO), the firm said on
Friday. The June 29 closure was the latest incident in a
22) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Tokyo, London ready to
agreed on return of MOX fuel to Britain DATELINE: TOKYO,
July 7 Kyodo BODY: Japan and Britain could agree as early
as next week on the return to Britain of tainted plutonium
fuel manufactured by British Nuclear Fuels PLC (BNFL),
Japanese officials said Friday. 'We are close to agreement
OCEANS
23) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence July 7, 2000
SECTION: Pg. A2 HEADLINE: Minister resigns over whaling vote
SOURCE: The Australian ABSTRACT: The Environment Minister
of Dominica has resigned accusing Japan of buying pro-
whaling votes. The resignation of Atherton Martin,
Dominica's Agriculture, Planning and Environment Minister,
(Greenpeace)
24) The Press (Christchurch) July 6, 2000 SECTION: NEWS;
INTERNATIONAL; Pg. 6 LENGTH: 437 words HEADLINE: Whale
sanctuary a matter of time Lee BODY: SYDNEY -- Conservation
Minister Sandra Lee says she is convinced it will be only a
matter of time before a whale sanctuary is established in
the South Pacific. A proposal championed by New Zealand and
(Greenpeace)
25) The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) July 6, 2000,
SECTION: WIRE; Pg. A08 LENGTH: 723 words HEADLINE: Japan
accused of unfair tactics in seeking repeal of whaling ban
BYLINE: Reuters News Service BODY: ADELAIDE, Australia --
The International Whaling Commission said Thursday it
sensed a new momentum toward lifting a commercial whaling
26) New Straits Times (Malaysia) July 7, 2000 SECTION:
National; Pg. 8 HEADLINE: Terengganu mulls implications if
hawksbill egg sale is banned DATELINE: Pulau Redang BODY:
PULAU REDANG, Thurs. - The Terengganu Government has to
consider the "social and political implications" of appeals
to ban the collection and sale of green and hawksbill
27) 07/07 West Coast Faces Deadly Giant Cloned Algae By Andrew
Quinn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - It looks like a soft carpet
of vibrant green, rippling in the ocean's currents. But
biologists call it an alien invader, a killer that
strangles native sea plants, plays havoc with fish
populations and causes ecological devastation in coastal
TOXICS
(Greenpeace)
28) Associated Press. July 6, 2000, LENGTH: 273 words HEADLINE:
EU assembly asks that ban on plastic toys compound be made
permanent DATELINE: STRASBOURG, France BODY: The European
Parliament on Thursday asked the 15 European Union
governments to make permanent a temporary ban on phthalates
- a chemical that softens plastic used in toys. The EU
29) LANDMARK RULING FINES GREECE DAILY FOR TOXIC WASTE
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 6, 2000 (ENS) - Greece has been
ordered to pay a daily fine of nearly US$20,000 for failing
to shut down a waste disposal plant spewing toxic trash
into a ravine 200 meters (650 feet) from the Mediterranean
Sea on the island of Crete. It is the first time the
30) New Scientist July 8, 2000 SECTION: This Week: Newswire,
Pg. 21 HEADLINE: Bad eggs BODY: People in the north of
Norway have been warned by the country's food safety agency
to cut back on eating seagull eggs because they are
contaminated with high levels of toxic polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs). The eggs are considered a delicacy in
31) AP Worldstream July 7, 2000; HEADLINE: Pesticide resistant
beetles threaten rapeseed harvest in Sweden DATELINE:
STOCKHOLM BODY: For the first time in Sweden, scientists
suspect that an insect species has become resistant to
pesticides and is threatening to wipe out the rapeseed crop
in a central region. A population of pollen beetles has
32) 07/07 DJ Conservation Grp Cites Polluted Runoff Threat To
Oceans By Bryan Lee WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Polluted runoff
from cars, trucks, farms and lawns is a chief cause of poor
ocean water quality, the Center for Marine Conservation
said Thursday in releasing its first annual "Health of the
Oceans" report. But the true extent of the problem isn't
(Greenpeace)
33) University Wire July 5, 2000 LENGTH: 625 words HEADLINE:
Texas A&M researcher studies Agent Orange toxin for
possible benefits BYLINE: By Stuart Hutson, The Battalion
SOURCE: Texas A&M U. DATELINE: College Station, Texas BODY:
A chemical called "the nastiest, most toxic man-made organic
chemical ... second only to radioactive waste" in a 1995
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