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Monday, July 10, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

1) The Age, Online, Greenhouse gas blowout By JASON KOUTSOUKIS 
CANBERRA Tuesday 11 July 2000 A decade of economic growth 
has helped Australia's greenhouse gas emissions blow out to 
more than double the targets set under the Kyoto 
international agreement. According to the 1998 National 
Greenhouse Gas Inventory - expected to be released on 

2) The Gazette (Montreal) July 10, 2000, Monday, FINAL 
SECTION: Editorial / Op-ed; B3 HEADLINE: Time to ring alarm 
bells on global warming BYLINE: BOB HERBERT BODY: Most 
people who grew up in the second half of the 20th century 
believed that climate change was such a gradual process 
that it was almost imperceptible during the course of an 

ENERGY

3) The New York Times July 10, 2000, Late Edition - Final 
SECTION: Section A; Page 3; Column 1; Foreign Desk 
HEADLINE: Pygmies Wonder if Oil Pipeline Will Ease Their 
Poverty BYLINE: By NORIMITSU ONISHI DATELINE: MABOLO, 
Cameroon BODY: Behind the hills next to this Pygmy village 
in the Central African rain forest, a pipeline is to be 

4) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Controversial Chinese dam to 
cost 90,000 jobs DATELINE: BEIJING, 10 July, BODY: China is 
planning to close down 800 businesses with a total of 
90,000 workers to make way for the construction of the 
controversial Three Gorges hydro-electric dam, Xinhua, the 
state news agency, reported on Monday. Another 1,500 

5) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 09, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 19 
HEADLINE: News: Turbine plan puts wind up duke's tenants 
Isambard Wilkinson and Oliver Poole on the trials of an 
Irish estate BYLINE: By Isambard Wilkinson and Oliver Poole 
BODY: THE Duke of Devonshire is facing a revolt from his 
Irish tenants over plans to erect 210ft-high 

6) The Independent (London) July 9, 2000, SECTION: COMMENT; 
Pg. 30 HEADLINE: DEBATE: SHOULD PETROL PRICES AND FUEL TAX 
BE CUT? BYLINE: Marion Shoard And Bert Morris BODY: Last 
week the car lobby renewed its cries for petrol tax to be 
cut. Meanwhile, a Royal Commission argued that high prices 
at the pump are the best way of protecting the planet from 

7) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, BC-UK's new elec rules seen 
penalising green schemes UK : July 10, 2000 LONDON - 
Britain's struggling green energy industry will suffer 
further under government plans to introduce new electricity 
trading arrangements (NETA) in November, government 
officials and industry executives say. Wind farms, 

FORESTS

8) Trial making paper with wheat straw a success BODY: Arisa 
MELBOURNE, July 10 AAP - Some 180 tonnes of wheat straw from
western Victoria that was processed into pulp in Italy has 
been successfully made into paper by local companies, 
non-wood paper- maker Arisa Ltd announced today. The 
Adelaide-based company said the trialling of the wheat 

9) National Post July 10, 2000 NATIONAL EDITIONS SECTION: 
FINANCIAL POST: NEWS; Pg. C03 HEADLINE: U.S. think-tank 
steps into lumber fray, calls pact 'boondoggle': 20-year 
debate: Cato Institute says U.S. has no right to dictate to 
Canada BYLINE: Peter Morton DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY: 
WASHINGTON - The U.S. homebuilding industry has found an 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

10) 07/10 Cloned Cow Has Calf in Japan TOKYO (AP) -- A cloned 
cow gave birth to a calf conceived by artificial 
insemination at a research center in northwestern Japan on 
Monday, showing that cloned cows can reproduce. The 
newborn, a female weighing 58.3 pounds, is the world's 
first reported example of a calf being born to a cloned 

11) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Agency to conduct genetic 
analysis of endangered species DATELINE: TOKYO, July 10 
Kyodo BODY: The Environment Agency will conduct 
comprehensive research into the gene pools of more than 
3,000 endangered species in Japan to study the diversity of 
genes within species, agency officials said Monday. The 

12) ANALYSIS-GM sugar delay raises doubts on prospects By Peter 
Blackburn LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - Long delays in 
marketing genetically modified (GM) sugar, due to 
resistance from environmental and consumer groups, raise 
questions about its future viability. GM sugar beet has 
been approved for growing in the United States but farmers 

13) The Scotsman July 10, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 2 HEADLINE: 
ECO-VANDALS ATTACK THE SITE OF SCOTTISH GM CROP TRIAL 
BYLINE: Katrina Tweedie BODY: SCOTLAND'S only farm-scale 
trial of genetically -modified crops has been vandalised 
and a swathe of oil seed rape was destroyed, it emerged 
yesterday. Grampian Police yesterday confirmed that they 

14) Sunday Mail July 9, 2000, SECTION: FEATURES; Pg. 12, 13 
HEADLINE: BABIES WITH NO SOUL; FRANKENSTEIN FEAR AS BRITISH 
SCIENTISTS QUIT PROJECT TO GROW KIDS BYLINE: Donna White 
Exclusive BODY: BRITISH scientists have pulled out of a 
controversial research project to build the world's first 
artificial womb for humans. Professor Mark Hanson, who had 

15) The Christian Science Monitor July 10, 2000, SECTION: USA; 
Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Ethics of owning parts of our genetic 
'blueprint' BYLINE: Peter N. Spotts, Staff writer of The 
Christian Science Monitor HIGHLIGHT: As research 
accelerates, some scientists question the wisdom of 
patenting pieces of the human genome. BODY: Like grizzled 

MILITARY

16) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: US, North Korea begin talks 
on missiles with Washington optimistic BYLINE: Eileen Ng 
BODY: KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 (AFP) - US and North Korean 
officials Monday began a new round of talks on curbing the 
North's missile program, with Washington promising a 
"fundamentally improved relationship" if its security fears 

17) The Guardian (London) July 10, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
Leader Pages, Pg. 17 HEADLINE: Coming down to earth; Gore 
Should Oppose Us Missile Plan BODY: America's national 
missile defence system is a bad idea whose time has passed. 
That would seem to be a logical conclusion to draw after 
the weekend, when a hit-to-kill' interceptor rocket fired 

18) The New York Times July 10, 2000, Late Edition - Final 
SECTION: Section A; Page 18; Column 1; Editorial Desk 
HEADLINE: Missile Defense Misadventures BODY: The failure 
of Saturday's test of the Clinton administration's 
prototype missile defense system should be the clinching 
argument for delaying any construction of such a system 

19) The Times (London) July 10, 2000, SECTION: Overseas news 
HEADLINE: Allies relieved by US missile test failure 
BYLINE: Michael Evans, Defence Editor and Ian Brodie in 
Washington BODY: THE failure of the "son of Star Wars" 
missile test after the "killer" rocket was aborted over the 
Pacific has provided America's sceptical European allies 

20) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 09, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 24 
HEADLINE: The test failed, but the thinking behind it 
didn't Richard Perle, left, a Reagan adviser on the 
original 'Star Wars' Strategic Defence Initiative, argues 
for a more advanced system BYLINE: By Richard Perle BODY: 
YESTERDAY'S test of a prototype missile defence system may 

(Greenpeace)
21) BBC MONITORING INTERNATIONAL REPORTS: MARSHALL ISLANDS: 
GREENPEACE PAIR CHARGED OVER MISSILE LAUNCH PROTEST; 
10-Jul-2000;Online, 106 words Text of report by Radio New 
Zealand International on 10th July Two Greenpeace activists 
who held a "Stop Star Wars" banner near an interceptor 
rocket prior to its mid-Pacific launch on Saturday [8th 

NUCLEAR POWER

22) Associated Press. July 10, 2000, HEADLINE: Citibank loans 
millions for upgrade of Bulgarian reactors DATELINE: SOFIA, 
Bulgaria BODY: New York's Citibank approved a loan of $77 
million Monday to help Bulgaria upgrade two reactors at its 
only nuclear power plant. The loan has a five-year grace 
period and will require two payments, at 10 years and 12 

23) XINHUA July 10, 2000, HEADLINE: Construction of Baotou 
Nuclear Fuel DATELINE: Hohhot BODY: The construction of the 
Baotou Nuclear Power Fuel Element Plant has started in 
north China's Inner Mongolia. The plant is designed to 
produce import-substitute fuel elements for heavy-water 
reactor nuclear power plants. Trial operation is scheduled 

24) Japan, UK to meet on nuclear fuel after false data TOKYO, 
July 10 (Reuters) - Japanese and British government 
officials will meet on Tuesday to discuss a controversial 
consignment of nuclear fuel, a Ministry of International 
Trade and Industry (MITI) official said on Monday. The MITI 
official said the meeting would be held between Anna Walker,

(Greenpeace)
25) TASS HEADLINE: St Petersburg Greens propose referendum on 
nuke imports ban BYLINE: By Natalia Mikhalchenko DATELINE: 
ST. PETERSBURG, July 9 LENGTH: 128 words BODY: St. 
 Petersburg activists of Greenpeace have proposed a 
nation-wide referendum for banning the imports of 
radioactive materials to Russia for processing, storing and 

26) AP Worldstream July 10, 2000; HEADLINE: Chernobyl reactor 
closed down due to flooding DATELINE: KIEV, Ukraine BODY: 
The only working reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power 
plant was shut down early Monday due to flooding caused by a
strong storm. Workers started pumping water out of the 
reactor early Monday morning, said a statement from the 

OCEANS

27) Australia calls for action to save the albatross CANBERRA, 
July 10 (Reuters) - Australia called on Monday for an 
international conservation agreement to save the albatross, 
one of the world's most majestic sea birds. Australian 
Environment Minister Robert Hill warned that some of the 20 
species of albatross in the Southern Hemisphere out of a 

(Greenpeace)
28) The Christian Science Monitor July 10, 2000, SECTION: 
WORLD; Pg. 8 LENGTH: 1036 words HEADLINE: Money, influence 
and the future of the world's whales BYLINE: Shawn Donnan, 
Special to The Christian Science Monitor DATELINE: 
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA HIGHLIGHT: In the chess game of whale 
management, Japan moves ahead, leaving conservationists 

29) XINHUA HEADLINE: One Million Large Yellow Croakers Released 
into Sea DATELINE: HANGZHOU, July 10 BODY: China has 
released 1.1 million fry of large yellow croakers into the 
East China Sea this year to help increase their numbers. 
 Most of them are six-seven cm and 3,000 of them are as long
as 15 cm. About 300,000 fry have been sent to the Zhoushan 

30) New Straits Times (Malaysia) July 10, 2000 SECTION: 
National; Pg. 11 HEADLINE: Sarawak needs firms' support in 
reef ball project DATELINE: Kuching BODY: KUCHING, Sun. - 
Sarawak's novel method of turtle protection through the 
deployment of reef balls has shown positive results and it 
is hoped that more companies will come forward to support 

(Greenpeace)
31) BBC MONITORING INTERNATIONAL REPORTS: RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS 
SAY HALF CAPSIAN SEAL POPULATION PERISHED; 09-Jul-2000; 
Online, Oil developments could be the cause of mass deaths 
of seals in the Caspian Sea, Russian NTV reported on 9th 
July. In its 0800 gmt news the TV cited Russia's Caspian 
fish-production scientific research institute as saying 

32) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Taiwan agrees to scrap 65 
tuna fishing boats DATELINE: TOKYO, July 10 Kyodo BODY: 
Taiwanese owners have agreed to scrap 65 Japanese-built tuna
fishing boats not covered by catch quotas under an 
international fishing treaty, Japan's Fisheries Agency said 
Monday. The 65 boats to be scrapped by the end of 2002 are 

33) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Dead seals continue to be 
washed ashore in Turkmenistan DATELINE: ASHGABAD, July 10 
BODY: Hundreds of dead seals have been washed up on the 
Turkmen Caspian Sea coast in a mysterious epidemic that has 
already killed thousands of mammals in Kazakhstan, a 
Turkmen official said Monday. Anver Murazayev, deputy head 

TOXICS

34) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Hungary announces 
113-mln-euro claim on Aussie cyanide polluter DATELINE: 
BUDAPEST, July 10 BODY: Hungary announced Monday a claim of 
29.37 billion forints (113 million euros, 107 million 
dollars) against an Australian mining company for a January 
cyanide spill that devastated its rivers. Hungary wants 

(Greenpeace)
35) The Jerusalem Post July 10, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 5 
LENGTH: 442 words HEADLINE: Youngsters demonstrate against 
Kishon pollution BYLINE: David Rudge BODY: Scores of 
youngsters from the trailblazer group of the Society for 
the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) staged a 
demonstration in the Haifa bayside industrial region 

X-OTHER-X

(Greenpeace)
36) PA 07/10 STRIKERS COULD BE LABELLED TERRORISTS UNDER NEW 
BILL' By Chris Hamilton, Political Staff, PA News Striking 
health workers, safe crackers and violently deluded people 
could all be classed as terrorists under new Government 
proposals, MPs warned in the Commons today. The concerns 
focus on a legal definition of terrorism which has been 

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