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Global News Headlines 07/27
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Thursday, July 27, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) The Toronto Star July 27, 2000, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS
HEADLINE: POLLUTION'S SPREAD CONFIRMED FROM SPACE BYLINE:
Peter Calamai BODY: OTTAWA - The insidious spread of
pollution due to traffic in Los Angeles and coal-burning in
China is being tracked from space for the first time by a
unique Canadian detector. The $35 million detector's
2) XINHUA NEWS AGENCY. HEADLINE: South Korea Begins Arctic
Ocean Exploration DATELINE: SEOUL, July 27 BODY: A South
Korean expedition team left Seoul Thursday for the Arctic
Ocean to make a joint research with Russian scientists. The
team will reach the Arctic Ocean next Tuesday on board a
Russian ice breaker traveling to the Barents and Kara Seas,
3) Deutsche Presse-Agentur July 27, 2000, HEADLINE: British
scientists put a cork in cow's methane production DATELINE:
London BODY: British scientists are tackling global warming
by reducing the amount of methane cattle produce by feeding
them bacteria that breaks the gas down, the Financial Times
reported on Thursday. Cattle, and to a lesser extent sheep,
ENERGY
(Greenpeace)
4) Japan Economic Newswire LENGTH: 452 words HEADLINE: Oil
spills damage Brazil's environment, stir protests BYLINE:
Lenilson DATELINE: RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, July 26 Kyodo
BODY: Birds covered in thick crude oil, fishermen unable to
feed their families and seas covered in huge black spots
have become common images for Brazilians. While a series of
5) The Gazette (Montreal) July 27, 2000, FINAL SECTION:
Editorial / Op-ed; B3 HEADLINE: Clearing the air: Canadians
must take action against smog and global warming BYLINE:
OWENS WIWA BODY: Approaching Toronto on a hot summer day,
it's impossible not to notice the heavy blanket of smog
smothering the city. Blue sky fades into a brown haze. The
6) ASIA PULSE HEADLINE: RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY STATEMENT ON
THE ANVIL IN INDIA DATELINE: NEW DELHI, July 27 BODY: The
Indian government has prepared a draft Renewable Energy
Policy Statement which aims at providing decentralised and
off-grid electricity supply for both rural and urban areas,
the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Indian Parliament) was
7) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Nigeria villagers want 50
million dollars in govt compensation BYLINE: Joel Olatunde
Agoi DATELINE: LAGOS, July 27 BODY: Eleven communities in
southern Nigeria where some 300 people have died in recent
pipeline explosions have demanded 50 million dollars in
compensation from the government, their spokesman said in a
FORESTS
8) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence July 27, 2000
SECTION: Pg. 15 HEADLINE: Plea for brakes on plantations
SOURCE: The Mercury BYLINE: Harriet Binet ABSTRACT: 200
Hobartians attended a rally on 26 July 2000 protesting the
growing number of plantation forests in Tasmania. The
Wilderness Society campaign co-ordinator Geoff Law
9) The Vancouver Sun July 27, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; B6
HEADLINE: Judge criticizes handling of protesters: Instead
of charging protesters criminally, legal authorities in
B.C. urge aggrieved parties to seek injunctions against
logging blockades in civil court. BYLINE: Chad Skelton BODY:
B.C. prosecutors and police are ''side-stepping''
10) AP Worldstream July 27, 2000; HEADLINE: Conservation
groups: Greece should have been better prepared for fires
DATELINE: GLAND, Switzerland BODY: Devastating wildfires in
Greece should be a wake-up call to the world to improve
prevention schemes, two conservation organizations said
Thursday. The Worldwide Fund for Nature and IUCN, the world
11) Interfax Russian News July 27, 2000, HEADLINE: PROGRAM
DEVELOPED TO REORIENT BAIKALSK PULP AND PAPER MILL BODY: A
program has been developed aimed at redirecting production
at the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill, envisaging the
elimination of all pulp production on a chlorine basis and
production of timber materials that pose no threat to Lake
GENETIC ENGINEERING
12) ACCI backs PM on GMO labelling BODY: GM Food ACCI CANBERRA,
July 27 AAP - Australian business has made a final plea for
health ministers not to back mandatory labelling of
genetically modified foods. Australian Chamber of Commerce
and Industry chief executive Mark Paterson said today a
mandatory sentencing without a threshold level would be too
13) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence July 27, 2000
SECTION: Pg. 15 HEADLINE: Sewing seeds of doubt SOURCE: The
Courier-Mail BYLINE: Peter Charlton ABSTRACT: Australian
and New Zealand health ministers will meet on 28 July 2000
to discuss genetically modified foods. When they last met
in 1999, representatives moved closer to approving a scheme
14) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence July 27, 2000
SECTION: Pg. 24 HEADLINE: Most cotton will be GM by 2005:
marketer SOURCE: The Australian BYLINE: Andrew Fraser
ABSTRACT: An Australian cotton marketer has spoken about
genetic modification. It is the cotton marketer Queensland
Cotton. On 26 July 2000 Richard Haire from this group noted
15) Reuters Brazil's northeast unloads GM corn from Argentina
BRAZIL : July 27, 2000 SAO PAULO - Brazil's
drought-stricken northeast has imported a second cargo of
genetically modified corn to help relieve the region's
shortage of animal feed, officials said yesterday. The
shipment was unloaded in Recife, capital of the state of
16) AP Worldstream July 27, 2000; HEADLINE: Swiss approve
altered Monsanto corn DATELINE: BERN, Switzerland BODY:
Swiss authorities on Thursday approved the use of a
genetically engineered corn manufactured by American
multinational Monsanto, ruling that it poses no threat to
human health. The federal health ministry's approval of MON
(Greenpeace)
17) Bridge News July 26, 2000, LENGTH: 955 words HEADLINE: (B)
OPINION: Criminal Acts of Britain's Eco-Warriors Can't Be
Ignored BODY: By David Walker, agricultural economist
NORWICH, England--The flavor of the month for Britain's
eco-warriors is genetically modified crops. With
universities and colleges on vacation and the weather fine,
MILITARY
18) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Japan, S. Korean A-bomb
survivors' children to hold symposium DATELINE: NAGASAKI,
July 27 Kyodo BODY: A symposium to discuss the problems of
the children of Japanese and South Korean atomic bomb
survivors will be held in Seoul on Saturday. The
participants, including 23 people from Hiroshima and
19) Korea Times July 28, 2000, HEADLINE: [A View From Abroad A
Missile Message From N. Korea BODY: President Vladimir
Putin of Russia came back from North Korea recently
reporting a tantalizing offer. The North, he said, would
give up its menacing long-range-missile program if other
countries would launch at least two North Korean space
20) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: 2ND LD: ASEAN regional
security forum ends in Bangkok BYLINE: Siti Rahil DATELINE:
BANGKOK, July 27 Kyodo BODY: END OF MEETING, NORTH KOREAN
STATEMENT) Foreign ministers from Asia-Pacific countries
and Europe ended an annual meeting on regional security
issues Thursday, with North Korea participating in the
NUCLEAR POWER
21) Mainichi Daily News July 27, 2000, SECTION: Page 2;
OPINION/ANALYSIS HEADLINE: Misguided nuke plan BODY: Even
though Japan's 51 commercial nuclear reactors already
supply one-third of the nation's electricity needs, for
many years the government has been pursuing a nuclear fuel
recycling strategy which aims to increase our dependence on
22) AP Worldstream July 27, 2000; HEADLINE: EBRD considering
loan to build two atomic reactors in Ukraine DATELINE:
KIEV, Ukraine BODY: The European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development said Thursday that it was considering a
dlrs 200 million loan to build two nuclear reactors in
Ukraine, but set strict conditions for the aid. Cash-poor
23) Interfax Russian News HEADLINE: EBRD to increase financing
for Chernobyl sarcophagus BODY: LONDON. July 27 (Interfax)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is
expected to sign a document to increment financing for the
construction of a sarcophagus over the damaged reactor at
the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in London today. The EBRD
OCEANS
24) Africa News July 27, 2000 HEADLINE: Namibia; Seal Quotas
'Not Based On Saving Fish' BYLINE: Christof Maletsky, The
Namibian (Windhoek) BODY: Windhoek - Government says the
high consumption of fish by seals is a cause for concern
but is not the basis for its seal management policy, which
is based on the principle of sustainable utilisation.
25) Interfax Russian News July 27, 2000, HEADLINE: RUSSIA TO
PRODUCE BLACK CAVIAR COMMERCIALLY AT FISH FARMS BODY:
Russia's fishery enterprises have begun breeding sturgeon
in order to commercially farm fish and produce black caviar
for sale on the market, deputy head of the State Fisheries
Committee of Russia Vladimir Izmailov reported. The
(Greenpeace)
26) The Washington Times July 27, 2000, Final Edition SECTION:
PART A; NATION; Pg. A5 LENGTH: 466 words HEADLINE: Court
halts fishing in sea lions' habitat; Endangered animals are
starving BYLINE: August Gribbin; THE WASHINGTON TIMES BODY:
The Federal District Court in Seattle has moved to save the
lives of the giant sea lions with big eyes and doll-like
OZONE
27) New Straits Times (Malaysia) July 27, 2000 SECTION:
National; Pg. 10 HEADLINE: Man's lifestyle a direct cause
of earth's decline, says report DATELINE: Kuala Lumpur BODY:
KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. - Public awareness of environmental
issues may have increased, but many people actually fail to
realise that their lifestyles are a direct cause of the
TOXICS
28) WORLD NEWS: LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN: Open sewers give
Brazil's cities a waste water stomach ache: Lack of
treatment is damaging health and the environment, writes
Raymond Colitt: Financial Times ; 27-Jul-2000 A nauseating
stench arises from the frothy brown liquid that passes
under a bridge in northern Sao Paulo city. Nearby, children
29) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: China slams US military
presence in Asia after SKorea incident DATELINE: BEIJING,
July 27 BODY: China's state-controlled press called
Thursday for all US troops to leave Asia following the
storm in South Korea over the dumping of toxic chemicals in
a river by the US military. The English-language China
30) Africa News July 27, 2000 SECTION: NEWS, DOCUMENTS &
COMMENTARY HEADLINE: Ghana; Environment: Matters Green
BYLINE: :S.B. Akuffo, Environmental Consultant, Accra Mail
(Accra) BODY: Accra - A review of the Pesticides Control
and Management Act Of 1996 (Act 528) In many developing
countries, sentiments run very high against the use of
31) Korea Times July 28, 2000, HEADLINE: Device to Decompose
Dioxin Developed BODY: Local university professors have
developed a device to decompose dioxin which is classified
as a carcinogenic substance. A research team of Chonbuk
National University said yesterday that it has devised a
method to oxidize dioxin by using vanadium and molybdenum as
32) The Guardian (London) July 27, 2000 SECTION: Guardian Home
Pages, Pg. 7 HEADLINE: Polluter firms face tougher fines
BYLINE: James Meikle BODY: James Meikle Big companies were
warned yesterday they could soon face huge fines for
polluting the environment as the government urged
magistrates to stop imposing derisory' penalties. Michael
33) The Times (London) July 27, 2000, SECTION: Overseas news
HEADLINE: A fatal bite in the Big Apple BODY: RUDOLPH
GIULIANI, the Mayor of New York, has enhanced his
reputation as a man of action by closing Central Park while
it was doused with pesticides to kill virus-bearing
mosquitoes. The mosquitoes, especially those of the Culex
X-OTHER-X
34) WHAT THE PAPERS SAY July 27, 2000, HEADLINE:
ENVIRONMENTALISTS WANT A REFERENDUM SOURCE: Izvestia, July
27, 2000, p. 3 BODY: The Moscow election commission has
registered an initiative group which advocates a nationwide
referendum on ecological issues, according to Chairman of
the Central Election Commission Alexander Veshnyakov.
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