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Tuesday, August 8, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

1) XINHUA NEWS LENGTH: 104 words HEADLINE: China's First SOE 
Closed Down for Pollution DATELINE: SHENYANG, August 8 BODY:
A large State-owned enterprise in north China's Liaoning 
Province was forced to close today owing to serious 
pollution problem. The Shenyang Intermediate People's Court 
today declared bankruptcy of Shenyang Smeltery, which 

2) OIL PUMPING FROM SUNKEN TANKER ERIKA NEARLY COMPLETE PARIS, 
France, August 7, 2000 (ENS) - Most of the oil has now been 
removed from the sunken oil tanker Erika off the west coast 
of France. On December 13, 1999, the Erika broke in two in 
heavy seas off the Breton coast of France while 
transporting eight million gallons (190,000 barrels) of 

3) Asahi News Service August 8, 2000, LENGTH: 719 words 
HEADLINE: OZONE DEPLETION TAKES FUN OUT OF SUN-WORSHIPPING 
DATELINE: TOKYO BODY: It seems like the good old days, 
those years when frolicking in the summer sun was fun. That 
was when there were more hours in the day than there are 
now, when kids after each summer break would compete for 

4) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 8, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 2 
LENGTH: 264 words HEADLINE: Govt presents CO2 cut plan to 
U.N. BODY: The government has presented to the secretariat 
of the U.N. conference on climate change a proposal to cut 
Japan's carbon dioxide emissions through forest absorption 
to help it attain its 6 percent reduction target, the 

5) Japan Economic Newswire August 8, 2000, Tuesday LENGTH: 341 
words HEADLINE: EU in principle against CO2 cut through 
forest absorption DATELINE: TOKYO, Aug. 8 Kyodo BODY: The 
European Union (EU) has suggested that efforts to curb 
carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to tackle global warming 
should not in principle rely on the use of 'sinks,' or the 

6) MAN KILLED AS DESPERATE ANIMALS ESCAPE KENYAN PARKS By 
Tervil Okoko NAIROBI, Kenya, August 7, 2000 (ENS) - The 
severe drought parching the range sections of Kenya is 
bringing wildlife into dangerous conflict with human beings.
On Friday, a 52 year old farmer was trampled to death by 
marauding elephants in Loitoktok, about 170 miles south of 

7) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) August 08, 2000, Tuesday 
SECTION: Pg. 18 LENGTH: 675 words HEADLINE: Features: 
Comment: beyond petroleum lies big trouble Acid Test 
BYLINE: By Matt Ridley BODY: PAYING Danegeld is a mistake. 
 The board of "bp", the newlyrebranded BP-Amoco, might 
ponder this as it reviews the results of its $100 million 

(Greenpeace)
8) Greenpeace occupies Alaskan BP barge for second day LONDON, 
Aug 8 (Reuters) - Greenpeace activists continued their 
occupation of a BP Amoco <BPA.L> barge in the Arctic Ocean 
for a second day on Tuesday in protest at the company's 
development of the Northstar oil field off Alaska. The 
environmental group said five activists were now occupying 

FORESTS

9) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 8, 2000, LENGTH: 389 words 
HEADLINE: U.N. sees strong indications for slow-down in 
deforestation DATELINE: Rome BODY: The destruction of the 
world's forests is continuing but there are strong 
indications that the rate of deforestation is slowing down, 
the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a 

10) APwo 08/08 Lack of consensus towards sustainable forest 
manag...
 SUSTAINABLE forest management should be promoted through 
mutually supportive trade and environmental policies, not 
through boycotts and ban on forest products, particularly 
tropical forest products, or linking stringent 

(Greenpeace)
11) OTC 08/07 2001 RUSSIA: CORRUPTION, ILLEGAL LOGGING THREATEN 
FAR ...
 KHABAROVSK, RUSSIA, (Aug. 6) IPS - Illegal logging, 
fuelled by corruption and timber demands from Japan, China 
and North and South Korea, is leading to the plundering of 
the Russian Far East's forests, one of the world's largest 

(Greenpeace)
12) The Atlanta Journal and Constitution August 8, 2000, 
SECTION: Business; Pg. 1D LENGTH: 770 words HEADLINE: 
Lowe's to stop selling products from endangered forests; 
New policy to begin with immediate ban on wood from parts 
of British Columbia. BYLINE: Patti Bond, Staff SOURCE: 
CONSTITUTION BODY: Lowe's Cos. plans to stop selling 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

13) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence August 8, 2000 
SECTION: Pg. 5 LENGTH: 109 words HEADLINE: Consumer 
resistance to GM food won't last 10 years, says expert 
SOURCE: Sydney Morning Herald ABSTRACT: Australian 
consumers would embrace genetically modified foods in less 
than a decade. Biotechnology Industry Association 

14) France's Glavany wants EU limit on GMO seed content PARIS, 
Aug 8 (Reuters) - French Farm Minister Jean Glavany, whose 
country currently holds the presidency of the European 
Union, said on Tuesday he would push member states to agree 
a maximum threshhold for GMO content in seeds. In an 
editorial published in daily Le Monde, Glavany said the law 

15) PA 08/08 1746 SEVEN QUESTIONED OVER GM CROPS ATTACK By Mark 
Sage, PA News Seven people were arrested after genetically 
modified crops were trampled and pulled up in a field in 
Essex, police said. The group of five women and two men, 
from London, Oxford and Cambridge, were arrested last night 
for criminal damage after 300-worth of GM maize was 

MILITARY

16) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 186 words HEADLINE: Cambodia 
ratifies nuclear test ban treaty DATELINE: PHNOM PENH, Aug 8
BODY: Cambodia on Tuesday ratified the Comprehensive 
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), four years after signing 
it, according to members of parliament who attended a 
debate on the issue. "Today the National Assembly ratified 

17) 08/08 FEATURE-A disaster the world ignored in Congo Republic
By Stephanie Wolters BRAZZAVILLE, Congo Republic (Reuters) 
- When fighting flared between rebels and government forces 
in Congo Republic in December 1998, nearly a quarter of the 
population, some 800,000 people, fled their homes. The 
outside world took little notice, and even now, when peace 

(Greenpeace)
18) Greenpeace warns of Gibraltar nuclear sub dangers 
GIBRALTAR, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Environmental group Greenpeace 
on Tuesday called on the British government to abandon 
plans to carry out what it says are potentially dangerous 
repairs to a nuclear submarine stranded in Gibraltar. HMS 
Tireless, which has been moored in the British colony's 

19) The Guardian (London) August 8, 2000 SECTION: Guardian Home 
Pages, Pg. 1 LENGTH: 275 words HEADLINE: Grandmother has 
her day in court BODY: Kirsty Scott When retired teacher 
Joan Meredith wanted to make a point about nuclear weapons 
she sat down in the roadway outside the Trident submarine 
base on the Clyde. Yesterday magistrates responded in kind, 

20) The Independent (London) August 8, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 
6 LENGTH: 38 words HEADLINE: PROTESTERS IN TRIDENT BASE SWIM
BODY: TWO ANTI- NUCLEAR protesters were arrested yesterday 
after trying to swim into a Trident submarine base. A man 
and a woman from the Trident Ploughshares group tried to 
breach security at Faslane Naval Base near Glasgow. 

21) United Press International LENGTH: 482 words HEADLINE: 
Suit: Workers kept in dark on hazards DATELINE: PADUCAH, 
Ky., Aug. 8 BODY: Two more lawsuits have been filed against 
the federal government and the companies it hired to run 
the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion plant, accusing them with 
failing to inform workers of hazards at the facility. One 

22) Agence France Presse August 8, 2000, LENGTH: 224 words 
HEADLINE: Two-thirds of US contaminated sites will never be 
safe enough: report DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Aug 7 BODY: More 
than two-thirds of the nearly 150 US nuclear facilities 
contaminated during the Cold War will never be safe for use 
by the population, according to a report released here 

23) The New York Times August 8, 2000, SECTION: Section A; Page 
8; Column 1; Foreign Desk LENGTH: 1510 words HEADLINE: 
United States Is Worried About an Increased Threat of 
Nuclear Conflict Over Kashmir BYLINE: By JUDITH MILLER and 
JAMES RISEN BODY: Behind President Clinton's blunt warning 
last spring that South Asia was the world's most perilous 

NUCLEAR POWER

24) LENGTH: 447 words HEADLINE: Fed: British nuclear expert 
warns against Lucas Heights reactor BODY: Lucas By Linda 
McSweeny CANBERRA, Aug 8 AAP - The federal government must 
abandon plans for a new nuclear reactor or join the rest of 
the world's ongoing nuclear waste woes, an adviser to the 
British government said today. Nuclear physicist Frank 

25) Lightning shuts Japanese reactor,no radiation leak TOKYO, 
Aug 8 (Reuters) - A power loss possibly due to lightning 
shut a nuclear reactor in eastern Japan on Tuesday but 
there was no radiation leak, Japan Atomic Power Co said. 
 The 1.1-gigawatt reactor at the Tokai No. 2 power station 
in Ibaraki Prefecture about 140 km (90 miles) northeast of 

26) NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT August 8, 2000 LENGTH: 95 words 
HEADLINE: Swedish nuclear closures not expected to affect 
supply BODY: Sweden's energy authority has said that the 
country can close a second nuclear power reactor next year 
without jeopardising electricity supply through the 
deregulated energy market. In a statement released 

OCEANS

27) LENGTH: 295 words HEADLINE: Fed: Govt must better protect 
fish BODY: CANBERRA, Aug 8 AAP - Japan's ability to 
overfish southern bluefin tuna proved the federal 
government must enter into tougher world environmental 
agreements, the Australian Democrats said today. Japan 
yesterday claimed victory in its battle to hunt bluefin 

28) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence August 8, 2000 
Tuesday SECTION: Pg. 10 LENGTH: 100 words HEADLINE: Japan 
off hook on tuna fishing SOURCE: The West Australian 
ABSTRACT: An international tribunal has rejected a plea by 
Australia and New Zealand to stop Japan's research fishing 
of bluefin tuna. The tribunal, set up in Washington under 

29) AP Worldstream August 8, 2000; LENGTH: 355 words HEADLINE: 
Mexican government seeks ''dolphin-safe'' label on cans of 
Mexican tuna DATELINE: MEXICO CITY BODY: Tired of waiting 
on a U.S. court ruling, the Mexican government has 
requested talks with the United States to allow 
''dolphin-safe'' labels on Mexican tuna before next year. 

TOXICS

30) Daily Record August 8, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 25 LENGTH: 
244 words HEADLINE: PESTICIDE BANNED OVER CANCER FEARS 
BYLINE: James Moncur BODY: GOVERNMENT scientists have 
ordered a ban on a killer pesticide thought to cause cancer.
The announcement came after the Record revealed the lethal 
chemical was being used on two Scots golf courses bidding 

X-OTHER-X

31) APn 08/07 India-Animal Skins NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- 
Wildlife agencies have seized hundreds of skins and claws 
poached from endangered leopards, tigers and antelope, 
India's deputy environment minister told Parliament on 
Monday. The skins of 249 leopards, 221 blackbuck antelope 
and 21 tigers were seized over the past year, said Babu Lal 

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