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Global News Headlines 08/22
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Tuesday, August 22, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
(Greenpeace)
1) The Mirror August 22, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 8 LENGTH:
992 words HEADLINE: WE'RE ON THIN ICE AS NORTH POLE MELTS;
MILE-WIDE GAP OPENS AT TOP OF WORLD BYLINE: Alexandra
Williams BODY: IT'S the news even hardened doom-mongers
have been dreading. The ice-cap at the North Pole has
melted for the first time in 50 million years. The thick
2) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence August 22, 2000
SECTION: Pg. 19 LENGTH: 100 words HEADLINE: Perils of the
melting poles SOURCE: The Advertiser ABSTRACT: On 21 August
2000, Peter Schwedtfeger warned of the significance of
changes to polar ice-caps. The Flinders University
researcher and senior adviser with Airborne Research
(Greenpeace)
3) Birmingham Post August 22, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 6
LENGTH: 95 words HEADLINE: VOICE FOR CLIMATE CAMPAIGN BODY:
Citizens round the world are being given an opportunity to
demand a halt to global warming. The move follows the
launch of a coalition of 16 environmental bodies including
World Wide Fund for Nature, Greenpeace and Friends of the
4) Tennessee Energy Company Aims to Convert Stadium ...
Aug. 22 (Chattanooga Times/Free Press/KRTBN)--Finley
Stadium may not have generated the football power or fan
excitement that its backers originally expected. But the
football stadium could soon begin producing another source
of power. TVA wants to use the downtown stadium for its
5) The Christian Science Monitor August 22, 2000, SECTION:
USA; Pg. 4 LENGTH: 912 words HEADLINE: As Arctic warms,
scientists rethink culprits BYLINE: Peter N. Spotts,
HIGHLIGHT: Some say efforts to stem global warming should
focus first on gases other than carbon dioxide. BODY: In
its effort to curb global warming, a three-year-old
FORESTS
(Greenpeace)
6) Greenpeace condemns PNG forest for phones deal BODY: By
Kevin Ricketts, PORT MORESBY, Aug 22 AAP - The World Bank
and Greenpeace today condemned a scheme to trade
communications infrastructure for a multi-million dollar
slice of Papua New Guinea's tropical hardwoods. Australian
telecommunications carrier Cable & Wireless Optus, French
GENETIC ENGINEERING
7) SA: Local farmers want GM food watchdog to be independent
BODY: ADELAIDE, Aug 22 AAP - South Australian farmers don't
want the regulation of genetically modified (GM) food to be
funded by the food industry to ensure its independence. The
South Australian Farmers Federation told a Senate committee
that the federal government's office of the gene technology
(Greenpeace)
8) The Nando Times, USA, August 22, 2000, Online, Greenpeace
occupies part of Greek factory in soya protest Agence
France-Presse ATHENS, Greece (August 22, 2000 12:29 p.m.
EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Thirty Greenpeace
protesters occupied part of a Greek factory Tuesday and
accused the owners of importing genetically modified soya,
9) FEATURE-U.S. exporters say non-GMO grain yours for a price
By K.T. Arasu CHICAGO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - U.S. grain
exporters, faced with demands for sorting billions of
bushels of genetically modified grains from other crops for
foreign customers, have a simple answer: You get what you
pay for. And they say some of the biggest buyers of U.S.
(Greenpeace)
10) Agence France Presse August 22, 2000, LENGTH: 409 words
HEADLINE: Research backs up theory GE corn kills monarch
butterflies: Greenpeace DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Aug 21 BODY:
A two-year field study on the effects of genetically
engineered (GE) corn backs up evidence that pollen from the
GE crop can kill monarch butterflies, Greenpeace said. An
MILITARY
11) 64 delegates discuss disarmament at U.N. confab in Akita
DATELINE: AKITA, Japan, Aug. 22 Kyodo BODY: Sixty-four
government officials, scholars and private-sector experts
from 22 countries started four days of discussions Tuesday
on worldwide nuclear disarmament at a U.N. conference in
Akita, northeastern Japan. 'The U.N. will be more and more
(Greenpeace)
12) Kursk must be raised from seabed, Greenpeace says LONDON,
Aug 22 (Reuters) - Environmental pressure group Greenpeace
demanded on Tuesday that the stricken Russian nuclear
submarine Kursk be recovered from the depths of the Barents
Sea to prevent leaks of radiation. The group also called on
all countries with nuclear-powered vessels to withdraw them
13) AP Worldstream August 22, 2000; HEADLINE: World critical of
Russia's slow reaction to submarine disaster BYLINE: KIM
GAMEL BODY: World leaders expressed grief over the deaths
of 118 sailors aboard a Russian nuclear submarine while
newspapers and spectators were sharply critical of Moscow
for seeming more concerned with saving face than saving
14) TASS HEADLINE: Admiral insists on Kursk's collision with
foreign sub. BYLINE: By Sergei Ostanin DATELINE: MOSCOW,
August 22 BODY: Some signs of damage of the Kursk
N-submarine point to its collision with a foreign submarine
when it was about to surface at a small depth, Hero of the
Soviet Union, Admiral Eduard Baltin, told reporters here on
15) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Submarine body recovery may
be impossible, company says DATELINE: OSLO, Aug 22 BODY:
Any operation to retrieve the bodies of Russian seamen from
the wreck of the Kursk nuclear submarine would be dangerous
and maybe impossible, the company whose divers accessed the
vessel said Tuesday. Recovering the corpses "may be
16) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 333 words HEADLINE: Russian
sub will leak radiation in six weeks: Russian expert
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Aug 22 BODY: A former Russian Navy
nuclear engineer, now an ardent environmental advocate,
said Tuesday the sunken Russian submarine Kursk might begin
leaking radiation in six weeks or earlier. "I believe that
17) The Guardian (London) August 22, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Leader Pages, Pg. 15 LENGTH: 987 words HEADLINE: Russia's
fall; John Gray The West Must Accept Its Share Of
Responsibility For Russia's Current Plight BODY: What has
the fate of the Russian submariners to do with the Siberian
tiger? Mr Putin's powerlessness in the face of the trapped
18) The Guardian (London) August 22, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Foreign Pages, Pg. 10 LENGTH: 543 words HEADLINE: Truth was
the first casualty BODY: How the navy hid the truth about
the submarine's fate. Saturday August 12 10.31am Two
explosions in forward torpedo compartment of the Kursk.
11.20pm Kursk fails to make radio contact with command.
(Greenpeace)
19) The London Free Press, Canada, August 22, 2000,SECTION:
EDITORIAL/OPINION, Pg. A11 LENGTH: 522 words HEADLINE:
NUCLEAR POWER MAY NOT BE RIGHT FOR SHIPS BYLINE: KARL
GROSSMAN, BODY: The tragedy involving the Russian nuclear
-powered submarine Kursk raises the question of whether
nuclear power is right for ships. The prevailing wisdom
20) The Times (London) August 22, 2000, SECTION: Features
LENGTH: 273 words HEADLINE: Backing Russia over the Kursk
BODY: From Captain Richard Sharpe, RN, Editor of Jane's
Fighting Ships Sir, Before international condemnation of
the Russian Navy over the Kursk incident goes completely
over the top, the following facts should be borne in mind:
(Greenpeace)
21) AP Worldstream August 22, 2000; HEADLINE: World critical of
Russia's slow reaction to submarine disaster BYLINE: KIM
GAMEL BODY: World leaders expressed grief over the deaths
of 118 sailors aboard a Russian nuclear submarine while
newspapers and spectators were sharply critical of Moscow
for seeming more concerned with saving face than saving
(Greenpeace)
22) Financial Times; 22-Aug-2000, Online, WORLD NEWS - EUROPE:
Warning on risks of radioactive leaks after salvage 370
words By ROBERT GRAHAM and ANDREW JACK International
experts yesterday cast doubt on the feasibility or
desirability of salvaging the Kursk despite a call by
Mikhail Kasyanov, the Russian prime minister, for
23) The Times (London) August 22, 2000, SECTION: Overseas news
LENGTH: 143 words HEADLINE: MoD aims to soothe Gibraltar on
repairs BYLINE: Michael Evans and Dominique Searle BODY:
THE Ministry of Defence tried to persuade a delegation from
Gibraltar yesterday that "modest" repairs could be made to
a Royal Navy nuclear submarine at a dockyard in the colony
24) U.S. still leads flat world arms trade - study WASHINGTON,
Aug 21 (Reuters) - The world trade in arms, still dominated
by the United States and primarily supplying Third World
markets, faces big constraints in coming years, according
to a U.S. congressional report released on Monday. The
annual report of the Congressional Research Service on arms
NUCLEAR POWER
25) Radioactive uranium goes on sale on the Internet By Chris
Reese NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Add radioactive uranium
to the list of items you can buy and sell with the click of
a computer mouse, and it might seem like a nuclear
bomb-maker's dream come true. "An (Internet) auction for
uranium seems far out, but it's really quite
OCEANS
(Greenpeace)
26) The Washington Post August 22, 2000, SECTION: A; Pg. A01
LENGTH: 1613 words HEADLINE: Japanese Whaling Culture
Endangered, Not Extinct; Tradition Lives On Despite World
Outcry BYLINE: Doug Struck , DATELINE: AYUKAWA, Japan BODY:
In his perch high above the water, lookout Katsuo Abe would
watch the silent shadow of a whale and coax the gunner on
(Greenpeace)
27) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Environmentalists stage
whaling protest at Japanese embassy in Mexico DATELINE:
MEXICO CITY, Aug 22 BODY: The environmental group
Greenpeace Tuesday staged a protest outside the Japanese
embassy here to demand and end to commercial whaling. A
dozen Greenpeace activists hung a banner outside the
(Greenpeace)
28) The Dallas Morning News August 21, 2000, SECTION: BUSINESS;
Pg. 1D; LENGTH: 847 words HEADLINE: Mexico still stuck in
tuna controversy's net BYLINE: Jim Landers BODY: WASHINGTON
- For six years Mario Aguilar has represented Mexico's
ministry of the environment, natural resources and fishing
at his country's embassy here in Washington. There are
(Greenpeace)
29) Financial Times; 22-Aug-2000, Online, NATIONAL NEWS: Ban on
dumping oil rigs at sea 210 words By ROSEMARY BENNETT
Guidelines to ban the dumping of oil rigs in the North Sea
were published by the government yesterday in an attempt to
avoid a repetition of the row over the Brent Spar facility.
Helen Liddell, energy minister, said the decommissioning of
TOXICS
(Greenpeace)
30) AP Online August 22, 2000; HEADLINE: Greenpeace Protests at
Olympics DATELINE: SYDNEY, Australia BODY: Environmental
activists on Tuesday started carving the word ''Toxic''
into a vacant field adjacent to Sydney Olympic Park to
highlight the failure of Sydney 2000 organizers to meet key
''Green Games'' promises. Greenpeace spokesman Matt Ruchel
(Greenpeace)
31) Australian Broadcast Corporation News, 22.08.2000, Online,
Greenpeace to highlight Homebush waste concerns Greenpeace
is seeking assurances from the New South Wales Government
that toxic waste at Homebush Bay will be cleared up.
Greenpeace is concerned about an area of the bay including
Rhodes Peninsula, two kilometres from the Olympic site.
32) TOXIC WASTE VICTIMS SUE PHILIPPINE, U.S. GOVERNMENT CLARK
FIELD, Pampanga, Philippines, August 21, 2000 (ENS) -
Victims who allege they were poisoned by toxic wastes at
two American military bases have filed a multi-billion
dollar lawsuit against the Philippines and the United
States. The case was filed Friday before the regional trial
(Greenpeace)
33) The Advocate, USA, 22.08.2000, Online, Environmentalists
shake off reports of burial: We are not dead By MIKE DUNNE
Advocate staff writer The environmental movement is dead -
or alive and expanding, depending on the two opposing
viewpoints aired at the Baton Rouge Press Club luncheon
Monday. A former television environmental reporter and
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