Global News Headlines 07/28

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Friday, July 28, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

1) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Dinosaurs wiped out by their 
own wind: Chinese report DATELINE: BEIJING, July 28 BODY: 
Contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs were not wiped out by 
a meteorite or a planetary catastrophe, but by the power and
potency of their own wind, a Chinese report said Friday. 
 According to the China Youth Daily, which quotes an 

2) Daily Record July 28, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 19 HEADLINE: 
BURPING COWS CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING; BUG TO BEAT METHANE 
MENACE BYLINE: Charlie Gall BODY: BELCHING and burping 
beasts down on the farm have been blamed for global warming.
But now scientists in Scotland are on a verge of a major 
breakthrough in a bid to save the planet from the menace. 

3) US SEEKS POLLUTION REPRIEVE: WASHINGTON MAKES A PLEA TO 
EUROPE FOR 'CARBON CREDITS' AS GAS-EMISSION TARGETS AGREED 
AT KYOTO ARE MISSED The Guardian 27-Jul-2000 BY PAUL BROWN 
The United States is unable to meet the legally binding 
greenhouse gas reduction target it accepted at the Kyoto 
climate conference in 1998, Washington admitted last week. 

4) BBC Online You are in: Sci/Tech 27 July, 2000, New 
greenhouse gas threat Greenhouse gases prevent heat 
escaping from Earth By Toby Murcott Scientists have 
discovered a potent new greenhouse gas in the upper 
atmosphere that could increase global warming. British 
researchers stumbled across gas the while they were 

ENERGY

5) TASS HEADLINE: Major oil spill contaminating Amur Bay near 
Vladivostok. BYLINE: By Marina Shatilova DATELINE: 
VLADIVOSTOK, July 28 BODY: About 30 tons of fuel oil on 
Thursday leaked here into the Pervaya river from a local 
fuel depot of the Russian Pacific fleet. The leak was 
believed to have occurred through a faulty pipeline while 

6) Europe Energy July 28, 2000 HEADLINE: RENEWABLES: 
EXPERIMENTAL WAVE POWER INSTALLATION PUT TO THE TEST IN 
ENGLAND HIGHLIGHT: The European Commission recently 
announced a new breakthrough in efforts to harness energy 
from the oceans with the launch of a newly-developed 
experimental wave energy device in Plymouth in the UK. The 

7) 07/28 Episcopalians Take Stand on Energy By JUDITH KOHLER 
Associated Press Writer DENVER (AP) -- When people ask why 
the Episcopal Church promotes renewable energy, the Rev. 
 Sally Bingham mentions Noah. She refers to his saving the 
animals from the flood as the first "endangered species 
act."

FORESTS

8) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: EC calls on Indonesia to 
prosecute illegal loggers DATELINE: JAKARTA, July 28 BODY: 
The European Commission on Friday called on Indonesia to 
take strong legal action against anyone engaging in illegal 
logging and haze-generating slash-and-burn land clearing. 
 Visiting EC Commissioner in charge of trade, Pascal Lamy, 

(Greenpeace)
9) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 200 words HEADLINE: Greenpeace 
boards cargo ship carrying Amazonian hardwood DATELINE: LE 
HAVRE, France, July 28 BODY: The environmental pressure 
group Greenpeace boarded a cargo ship carrying Amazonian 
hardwood Friday in the northwestern French port of 
Honfleur, according to a spokesman for the group. Three 

10) WORLD NEWS: ASIA-PACIFIC: Indonesia gets tough on fires 
NEWS DIGEST: Financial Times ; 28-Jul-2000 FORESTRY LAWS 
Indonesia gets tough on fires The Indonesian government is 
to suspend the operations of 12 palm oil and plantation 
companies for allegedly starting forest fires that have 
spread a smoky haze across neighbouring Malaysia and 

(Greenpeace)
11) PA 07/28 MEACHER'S TIMBER PLEDGE TO SAVE FORESTS By Sarah 
Westcott, Political Staff, PA News The Government today 
moved to stem the tide of ancient forest destruction by 
committing itself to buying sustainable timber. Environment 
Minister Michael Meacher said each government department 
will actively seek to buy timber from sustainable and legal 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

12) 07/28 Australia and New Zealand agree to tight food label...
By RAY LILLEY Associated Press Writer WELLINGTON, New 
Zealand (AP) -- Australia and New Zealand agreed Friday to 
introduce strict labeling of foods containing all but 
minute traces of genetically modified ingredients. The new 
labeling standards are among the strictest in the world, 

(Greenpeace)
13) Newsweek July 31, 2000, Atlantic Edition SECTION: BUSINESS; 
Agriculture; Pg. 43 LENGTH: 780 words HEADLINE: Another 
Bitter Harvest BYLINE: By Mac Margolis HIGHLIGHT: 
Genetically modified crops are banned in Brazil. That 
pleases Greenpeace--and outrages farmers. BODY: Speakers at 
agricultural seminars don't usually deliver table-thumping 

14) XINHUA NEWS AGENCY. HEADLINE: China Discovers Genetically 
-Modified Ingredients from Rapeseed Imports DATELINE: 
SHANGHAI, July 28 BODY: The Shanghai Administration of 
Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine has announced that it 
has discovered trans- genetic ingredients from a batch of 
rapeseed imports from Canada, the first of such cases found 

15) Reuters German study finds GM material often in store food 
GERMANY : July 28, 2000 BERLIN - More than a third of 
Germany's packaged food products including maize or soya 
contain genetically modified material, according to a 
consumer study released yesterday. The German 
government-funded consumer protection body, Stiftung 

(Greenpeace)
16) Inter Press Service July 26, 2000, LENGTH: 881 words 
HEADLINE: DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: FARMERS IN UPROAR OVER GENETIC 
COTTON TRIAL BYLINE: By Ranjit Devraj DATELINE: NEW DELHI, 
Jul. 26 BODY: The Indian government's decision to allow 
field trials of the controversial genetically-engineered 
(GE) cotton has come under flak from farmers' rights 

(Greenpeace)
17) Reuters Switzerland approves Monsanto GM maize variety 
SWITZERLAND: July 28, 2000 BERNE - Switzerland yesterday 
approved a gene-modified (GM) maize variety for use in 
animal feed, the fourth such approval on the Swiss market. 
 The Health and Agriculture Ministries said in a joint 
statement they decided to allow the Mon810 maize variety, 

MILITARY

18) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: North Korea's missile 
program remains shrouded in secrecy DATELINE: SEOUL, July 28
BODY: Pyongyang's offer to abandon its missile program in 
exchange for space-rocket technology remains unclear as US 
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Friday her talks 
with North Korean counterpart Paek Nam-Sun in Bangkok had 

19) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) 
July 28, 2000, SECTION: Opinion; Pg. 10 HEADLINE: Missile 
Defense? BYLINE: By Malcolm Fraser; International Herald 
Tribune DATELINE: MELBOURNE BODY: The U.S. proposal to 
build a missile defense shield would abrogate the 
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed in 1972 with the 

NUCLEAR POWER

20) Europe Energy July 28, 2000 SECTION: No. 564 HEADLINE: 
JAPAN TO TAP MOX FUEL DESPITE FALSE DATA BODY: Japan's 
electricity industry is to press on with plans to use 
mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel at its nuclear reactors, despite the 
controversy over falsified data, the Federation of Electric 
Power Companies said. The revelation last September that 

21) OTC Study Shows High Levels of Plutonium near Hanford, ...
 Jul. 27 (The Seattle Times/KRTBN)--Air samples taken in 
Richland and Pasco after last month's fire at the Hanford 
nuclear reservation showed plutonium concentrations 1,000 
times higher than normal levels but below all state or 
federal safety standards. The test results, unveiled 

22) Associated Press. July 28, 2000, HEADLINE: NRC: 1997 
nuclear plant inspection was deficient DATELINE: BUCHANAN, 
N.Y. BODY: Con Edison's last inspection of the Indian Point 
2 nuclear reactor was "deficient in several respects" that 
may have contributed to a radioactive leak in February, the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission said. "Con Edison did not 

OCEANS

(Greenpeace)
23) APwo 07/27 Oil Rush May Kill Caspian Sea Ecosystem, THE ST. 
P...
 ATYRAU, Kazakstan-Despite the splendid lunch dedicated to 
the release of 1.1
 million baby sturgeon into the Ural River, the mood at the 
Ural-Atyrau fish farm last week was dismal. After two 

24) NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT July 28, 2000 HEADLINE: Dangerous 
toxins discovered in Norwegian whale meat BODY: The 
Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) has warned that whale meat 
and blubber regularly consumed in Norway may contain some 
of the world's most dangerous toxins. According to a recent 
analysis of whale meat by the WWF, samples purchased in 

25) FLORIDA GOVERNOR FAVORS MANATEES OVER BOATS TALLAHASSEE, 
Florida, July 27, 2000 (ENS) - Florida Governor Jeb Bush 
announced Tuesday that his state will not approve any more 
boat slip applications unless counties develop detailed 
plans for protecting endangered manatees. "There's an 
endangered species that's close to being extinct in Florida 

26) New Scientist July 29, 2000 SECTION: This Week, Pg. 5 
HEADLINE: A receding shoreline BYLINE: Mark Schrope 
HIGHLIGHT: Is seaweed causing tropical beaches to disappear 
? BODY: OFF to the tropics for your holidays ? You might 
have trouble finding the beach, and pollution from increased
tourism could be to blame. Researchers in Florida have found

OZONE

(Greenpeace)
27) Financial Times London Edition; July 26, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 
 14; LENGTH: 988 words HEADLINE: INSIDE TRACK: Coolants 
spark heated debate: CLIMATE CHANGE: Saving the ozone layer 
might have unintentionally worsened the greenhouse effect, 
writes Vanessa Houlder HIGHLIGHT: Greenpeace favors 
Coca-Cola's decision to phase out use of hydrofluorocarbons 

TOXICS

28) The Gazette (Montreal) July 28, 2000, FINAL SECTION: News; 
B10 HEADLINE: Hazardous-waste imports on rise: Tougher 
regulations in U.S. cited as cause BYLINE: DENNIS BUECKERT 
DATELINE: OTTAWA BODY: Canadian imports of hazardous waste 
are rising sharply and a growing proportion of that waste 
is being dumped without treatment rather than recycled. 

29) The Irish Times July 28, 2000 SECTION: CITY EDITION; 
EDITORIAL PAGE; EDITORIAL COMMENT; Pg. 17 HEADLINE: 
Disposing of Waste BODY: Galway Corporation's unanimous 
decision this week to exclude thermal treatment from the 
menu of options for regional waste management has been 
greeted with jubilation by those who campaigned against 

(Greenpeace)
30) Environmentalists unite to oppose waste incineration 
BANGKOK, July 28 (Kyodo) -- By: Nattha Keenapan Activists 
from 12 Asia-Pacific countries and territories formed 
Friday the region's first alliance to oppose waste 
incineration. The Asian Anti-Incineration Alliance hopes to 
promote "clean production" and a "zero-waste oriented 

(Greenpeace)
31) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 480 words HEADLINE: Rich 
nations treating Asia as the world's cesspit: Greenpeace 
DATELINE: BANGKOK, July 28 BODY: The world's rich nations 
are treating Asia as the cesspit of the industrialised 
world by paying developing countries to take their toxic 
wastes, Greenpeace said Friday. "Industrialised countries 

32) THE JOURNAL (Newcastle, UK) July 28, 2000, Edition 4 
SECTION: REGIONAL NEWS, Pg. 13 HEADLINE: Council 'trying to 
protect itself' over toxic ash inquiry BYLINE: by Luke 
Edwards BODY: CAMPAIGNERS against the Byker incinerator in 
Newcastle have accused the city council of trying to 
protect itself from legal action by carrying out its own 

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