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Global News Headlines 08/18
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Friday, August 18, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, World climate talks in Lyon to thrash
out rules FRANCE: August 18, 2000 PARIS - Representatives
of 180 countries will meet in the French city of Lyon next
month to work out how an international agreement to curb
the greenhouse gas emissions will be made to work in
practice. The negotiations on September 4-15 between
2) Hermes Database August 18, 2000 HEADLINE: India And Uk Team
Up To Study Climate Change KEYWORDS: Environmental BODY: An
Indo-UK research programme on the impacts of climate change
in India was launched today in New Delhi, India. India's
Ministry of the Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the UK's
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
(Greenpeace)
3) San Jose Mercury News August 17, 2000, LENGTH: 1482 words
HEADLINE: California Teen-Ager Makes A Statement By Buying,
Removing Emissions BYLINE: By Katherine Ellison BODY:
Already a committed environmentalist at 18, Ryan Buckley
has raised money, made speeches and joined protests to show
his concern about the planet's fate. But nothing has given
ENERGY
4) The Gazette (Montreal) August 18, 2000, FINAL SECTION:
News; A5 HEADLINE: Transit buses run on vegetable oil?
BYLINE: INGRID PHANEUF BODY: The aroma of french fries
could soon fill the nostrils of transit- users if the
Montreal Urban Community Transit Corp. approves a pilot
project to fuel 10 of its buses with used cooking oil. The
5) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, TotalFinaElf sees chance of huge oil
find in Brazil FRANCE: August 18, 2000 PARIS - French oil
giant TotalFinaElf said yesterday it might find oil
reserves in its Brazilian deep offshore bloc BC-2 in the
Campos Basin as big as those found in fields on Angola's
block 17. Oil companies have discovered, and plan to
FORESTS
6) New Scientist August 19, 2000 SECTION: This Week: In brief,
Pg. 21 HEADLINE: Rainy old Med BODY: DEFORESTATION is
responsible for today's drier Mediterranean climate, say
Oreste Reale and Paul Dermeyer of the Center for Ocean Land
Atmosphere Studies at Calverton in Maryland. They worked
out how much and what kind of plant cover there was 2000
GENETIC ENGINEERING
7) FEATURE-Forget Dolly the sheep, Tasmanian tiger is next By
Andrea Hopkins BRIGHTON, Tasmania, Aug 18 (Reuters) - The
small wooded enclosure near the entrance of the Bonorong
Park Wildlife Center is labelled "Tasmanian tiger" but the
fabled Australian carnivore is nowhere to be seen. The last
known Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, died in captivity in
8) Reuters, Australia non-GM grains cash in winning trade hand
AUSTRALIA: August 18, 2000 SYDNEY - Australia's big grains
export industry has begun cashing in on worldwide consumer
fears about genetically modified (GM) food by selling
canola to Europe with a non-GM price premium. The sales
involve about 150,000 tonnes of canola, for shipment early
(Greenpeace)
9) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 290 words HEADLINE: Greenpeace
claim Hong Kong food chains using engineered ingredients
DATELINE: HONG KONG, Aug 18 BODY: Greenpeace on Friday
claimed three fast food chains in Hong Kong were using
genetically engineered (GE) ingredients in the food they
were selling. Greenpeace said it found genetically
10) BusinessWorld August 18, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 20 HEADLINE:
Developing nations biggest losers from lack of biotech
investments (Enhanced IPR environment needed to attract
private sector, paper notes) BYLINE: Arnold S. Tenorio BODY:
Developing countries like the Philippines need genetically
modified (GM) agricultural crops more so than developed
11) BUSINESS DAY (THAILAND) August 18, 2000 HEADLINE:
Editorial: Thailand Must Assert Policy On GM Products BODY:
Exported Thai canned tuna was recently rejected by Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait because the importers in these countries
claimed Thai canned tuna has a substantial content of
Genetically Modified Organisms ( GMO) , in the form of soya
12) The Independent (London) August 18, 2000, SECTION: NEWS;
Pg. 8 HEADLINE: SCIENTISTS USE MORE GM ANIMALS IN
EXPERIMENTS BYLINE: Steve Connor Science Editor BODY: THE
NUMBER of genetically modified animals used last year in
laboratory experiments increased by 14 per cent compared
with 1998, according to figures released yesterday by the
13) FEATURE-Gene-altered U.S. wheat coming but who will buy it?
By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 18 (Reuters) - A
loaf of bread could soon become a subject of controversy.
From university laboratories to U.S. government-run
greenhouses, research is moving forward to bring the first
genetically modified wheat to market as early as 2003. The
14) Financial Times ; 18-Aug-2000 , Online, WORLD NEWS: THE
AMERICAS: US may not seek GM food labels The US is on track
to require more information from food makers before
genetically altered foods go on sale, but it looks years
away - if ever - from mandating special labels on food
packages, writes Our International Staff. Rather than
MILITARY
15) Israeli Nuclear Weapons Facility Revealed in New ...
WASHINGTON, August 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- New
high-resolution satellite imagery provides important new
insights into Israel's nuclear weapons capabilities. The
imagery of the Dimona nuclear reactor was acquired by Space
Imaging Corporation's IKONOS satellite on July 4th 2000 on
16) Asahi News Service August 18, 2000, HEADLINE: MORI'S VISIT
SHOULD BE A CALL TO SIGN NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY BODY:
Asahi Shimbun said in an editorial: Prime Minister Yoshiro
Mori begins a trip to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal
on Aug. 19. His visit to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh is
the first for a prime minister since Toshiki Kaifu went
17) DEFENSE AND SECURITY August 18, 2000, SECTION: SECURITY
HEADLINE: KURSK SUBMARINE CREW TO BE RESCUED SOURCE:
Nezavisimaya Gazeta, August 16, 2000, p. 1 BYLINE: Alan
Kasaev, Valery Aleksin HIGHLIGHT: A RESCUE OPERATION IS
SHORTLY DUE TO START IN THE BARENTS SEA, WHERE A RUSSIAN
NUCLEAR SUBMARINE LIES CRIPPLED ON THE SEA FLOOR WITH 107
18) The Guardian (London) August 18, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Home Pages, Pg. 4 HEADLINE: Reactors may not be shut down;
Pollution Vessel Harbours Powerful Threat To Environment
BYLINE: Paul Brown Environment correspondent BODY: There is
around 1.2 tonnes of enriched uranium in the twin reactors
which powered the submarine Kursk, which is a modern Oscar
19) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
August 18, 2000, SECTION: News; Pg. 1 HEADLINE: Kursk
Rescue Odds Increasingly Grim; 'Catastrophic' Damage to
Hull Suggests Fire and Flooding BYLINE: By Patrick Tyler;
New York Times Service DATELINE: MOSCOW BODY: In frantic
efforts against increasingly hopeless odds to save the crew
20) The Times (London) August 18, 2000, SECTION: Overseas news
HEADLINE: Sub blast may have killed most of crew BYLINE:
Giles Whittell in Moscow BODY: MOST of the crew of the
stricken submarine Kursk were feared dead last night after
Russia admitted they had been caught in "a sudden
catastrophe" on board. Defence experts from Jane's
(Greenpeace)
21) Gibraltar clashes with London over stranded sub GIBRALTAR,
Aug 17 (Reuters) - The local government of the British
colony of Gibraltar clashed on Thursday with London for the
first time over how to deal with a stranded British nuclear
submarine moored in Gibraltar's harbour since May. While
international attention has focused this week on a Russian
NUCLEAR POWER
(Greenpeace)
22) 08/18 ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: NEW PLANT FUELS DEBATE OVER ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Aug. 17) TIERRAMERICA/IPS - The Angra 2
nuclear plant, located about an hour outside Rio, finally
switched on its reactors last month 17 years after the
original deadline, but at the perfect moment for proponents
of nuclear energy due a desperate power shortage in the
23) AP Worldstream August 18, 2000; HEADLINE: Radioactive water
leaks in nuclear power plant DATELINE: HELSINKI, Finland
BODY: Officials on Friday reported a minor radiation leak
in a nuclear power plant in southern Finland. They said no
radiation escaped the facility, and that there was no
danger to the environment. Some 10,000 liters (2570
24) New Scientist August 19, 2000 SECTION: This Week: Newswire,
Pg. 11 HEADLINE: Clean burn BODY: The nuclear industry has
begun testing a new type of fuel designed to burn plutonium
without breeding it. If successful, it could help rid the
world of its stockpiles of plutonium waste from nuclear
weapons and power stations. Before it is irradiated in
25) BBC On-Line , Friday, 18 August, 2000, UK Nuclear clean-up
begins Drilling work has started around a nuclear waste
shaft at the Dounreay plant in Caithness to establish how
safely it can be emptied of radioactive material. The task
of clearing the 220ft deep shaft has been described as one
of the biggest challenges in the nuclear industry. The
26) REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, US nuke regulators criticized for
false safety methods USA: August 18, 2000 WASHINGTON - The
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was charged yesterday
with using faulty risk assessment methods in determining
the safety of the nation's nuclear power plants, putting
cost containment ahead of safety, according to the Union of
OCEANS
27) ASIA PULSE HEADLINE: USDS US OBJECTS TO JAPAN S LETHAL
WHALING RESEARCH PROGRAM DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Aug 18 BODY:
STATEMENT BY PHILIP T. REEKER, DEPUTY SPOKESMAN US Objects
to Japan's Lethal Whaling Research Program The Government
of Japan has confirmed that it has taken one sperm whale,
four Bryde's whales and six minke whales as part of its
28) BUSINESSWORLD (PHILIPPINES) August 18, 2000 HEADLINE:
WEEKENDER: BATTLE FOR MANILA BAY BODY: Fishermen are said
to be a patient lot, having been used to waiting hours on
end for the proverbial prey to take the bait. But small
fishermen in the Manila Bay area have found out that
government could take a far longer wait than what several
29) THE RUSSIAN BUSINESS MONITOR August 18, 2000, HEADLINE:
RUSSIA LOSES $1 BILLION FROM UNREGISTERED FISH EXPORT TO
JAPAN SOURCE: Mayak radio, August 17, 2000 BODY: Experts of
the State Fishing Committee say that Russia loses up to $1
billion from the unregistered export of fish to Japan.
However, Yury Sinelnik, the Chair of the Committee, says
30) DOGFISH SHARKS NEED EMERGENCY HELP, ENVIRONMENTALISTS SAY
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, August 17, 2000 (ENS) - Leading
environmental, scientific, and recreational fishing groups
are calling on Atlantic state governors to support
emergency action to protect the imperiled spiny dogfish
shark in state waters. The groups also expressed their
31) International Wildlife September 1, 2000 SECTION: Pg. NA ;
ISSN: 0020-9112 IAC-ACC-NO: 64196604 HEADLINE: Road Spurs
NWF Call For Development Ban Near Alaska Sound; Brief
Article BODY: Concerned that a newly opened road will bring
get-rich-quick development on the shores and waters of
Alaska's Prince William Sound, NWF is urging the state to
TOXICS
(Greenpeace)
32) CHEMICAL BUSINESS NEWSBASE August 17, 2000 LENGTH: 155 words
HEADLINE: CHEMISCH2WEEKBLAD: Dutch environmental bodies
want Akzo Nobel's chlorine train stopped BODY:
Environmental organizations want the Dutch minister of the
environment to take concrete measures against Akzo Nobel's
chlorine train which runs twice a week in the Netherlands.
(Greenpeace)
33) 08/18 Turkish police detain Greenpeace activists protesti...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Police on Friday detained nine
Greenpeace activists, including three foreigners, after the
protesters tried to block ships bound for a Turkish
chemical plant. The activists were trying to interrupt
production of polyvinyl chloride, better known as PVC, at
34) The Express August 18, 2000 HEADLINE: STORES NAMED AND
SHAMED OVER RISKY CHEMICALS BYLINE: By Lucy McDonald BODY:
LEADING high street stores have been criticised for selling
products containing potentially dangerous chemicals. Marks
and Spencer, Tesco, Mothercare and Boots have all been
named and shamed by Friends of the Earth for selling
35) 08/18 U.S., Philippines Sued Over Waste MANILA, Philippines
(AP) -- More than 100 people filed suit Friday against the
United States and the Philippines, seeking $103 billion in
damages for deaths and illnesses they say were caused by
hazardous waste at former American military bases. The suit
seeks $1.1 billion from the Philippine government for
36) United Press International HEADLINE: Groundwater near
offices contaminated DATELINE: ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Aug.
18, BODY: Groundwater fouled by a highly toxic element has
been found near a check verification company where workers
have been suffering hair loss, state officials said Friday.
Twelve people, mostly women, telephoned the Occupational
X-OTHER-X
(Greenpeace)
37) The Evening Post (Wellington) August 16, 2000 SECTION:
NEWS; NATIONAL; Pg. 3 LENGTH: 206 words HEADLINE: Rainbow
Warrior opera now released on CD BODY: SYDNEY. - The
bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour 15 years
ago and the political fallout that followed has been
chronicled in an operatic recording released yesterday in
38) The Independent (London) August 18, 2000, SECTION: TITLE
PAGE; Pg. 1 HEADLINE: CRISIS FOR BRITISH FARMING AS FEVER
SPREADS BYLINE: Paul Waugh Deputy Political Editor BODY:
BRITISH FARMING is facing its biggest safety crisis since
the BSE scandal after the Government last night extended
its swine fever ban to 35 farms across the UK. The Ministry
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