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Thursday, August 24, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

1) The Toronto Star August 24, 2000, Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS 
HEADLINE: SMOG PATROL TRACKS ROADS FOR SMOKE SIGNALS 
BYLINE: Brian McAndrew BODY: ENVIRONMENT REPORTER Traffic 
slows when Mark Bailey pulls on the highway in his white 
cruiser with the blue and gold striping along the side and 
red emergency lights on top. But Bailey isn't looking for 

2) The Christian Science Monitor August 24, 2000, SECTION: 
FEATURES; A THOUSAND YEARS OF THE ENVIRONMENT; Pg. 12 
HEADLINE: Yes, it's hotter. But why? BYLINE: Robert C. 
 Cowen, Special to The Christian Science Monitor HIGHLIGHT: 
Establishing the cause of global warming BODY: Savante 
August Arrhenius, the Swedish prophet of global warming - 

(Greenpeace)
3) The Herald (Glasgow) August 23, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 6 LENGTH: 
1031 words HEADLINE: When it comes to global warming, we 
all lit the match BYLINE: Iain Macwhirter BODY: Whatever 
happened to the environment? They may be discovering 
meltwater at the North Pole for the first time in 50 
million years, but it seems that global warming has lost 

(Greenpeace)
4) Evening News (Edinburgh) August 22, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 5 
LENGTH: 282 words HEADLINE: FORGET ALL THE DOWNPOURS . . 
 THIS IS A SUNSHINE SUMMER BODY: IT may seem like we have 
had a dismal wet summer - but an expert today revealed that 
we have actually had more sun this summer than last year. 
 The sunlight recorder at Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden 

ENERGY

(Greenpeace)
5) Financial Times August 22, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 03; HEADLINE: 
NATIONAL NEWS: Ban on dumping oil rigs at sea HIGHLIGHT: 
Guidelines to ban dumping of oil rigs in North Sea were 
published by government yesterday in attempt to avoid 
repetition of row over Brent Spar facility BODY: Byline: 
Rosemary Bennett, Political Correspondent Guidelines to ban 

FORESTS

6) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) 
August 24, 2000, SECTION: Finance; Pg. 11 HEADLINE: Where 
Forests Disappear; Illegal Loggers Defy Conservationists in 
Cambodia BYLINE: By Michael Richardson; International 
Herald Tribune DATELINE: PHNOM PENH BODY: In the battle to 
save Cambodia's tropical hardwood forests from destruction, 

7) THE JAKARTA POST August 24, 2000 HEADLINE: Govt says no new 
permits for natural forest conversion BODY: JAKARTA (JP): 
The Ministry of Forestry and Plantations has stopped the 
issuance of new permits to develop natural forests for 
logging, plantations and other forestry -related industries.
Moch. Toha Bratakusumah, the head of the ministry's 

(Greenpeace)
8) HEADLINE: PNG hardwood for telecommunications cable deal 
denied LENGTH: 497 words BODY: By Kevin Ricketts, Papua New 
Guinea correspondent PORT MORESBY, Aug 23 AAP - Cable and 
Wireless Optus today rejected claims it was involved in a 
barter deal in which Papua New Guinea was being offered 
upgraded communications in return for millions of dollars' 

9) The Christian Science Monitor August 24, 2000, SECTION: 
FEATURES; A THOUSAND YEARS / THE ENVIRONMENT; Pg. 14 
HEADLINE: Legacy of extinction BYLINE: Lauren Gravitz , 
Special to The Christian Science Monitor HIGHLIGHT: Habitat 
preservation is the key to saving endangered species. BODY: 
Each evening in Curaa, Brazil, when a small sapphire-blue 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

10) Tasmania pushes to opt out of GM laws CANBERRA, Aug 24 AAP 
- The Tasmanian government has continued its push against 
proposed national laws governing gene technology, taking 
its case to a Senate inquiry. The state government is 
formulating its own policy on genetically modified 
organisms ( GMOs) and does not want GMOs in state 

(Greenpeace)
11) UPDATE 2-Greece charges Greenpeace activists for GM protest 
By Dina Kyriakidou ATHENS, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Greece on 
Wednesday charged a group of Greenpeace activists with 
disturbing the peace for blockading a soya processing plant 
to protest against genetically modified (GM) crops. 
 Greepeace Greece campaign director Nikos Charalambides was 

12) THE HINDU August 24, 2000 HEADLINE: Cloned pig sets the 
stage for organ transplants BODY: HER NAME is Xena, and she 
joins that other famous female, Dolly, in the ranks of the 
barnyard cloned. Xena's debut is reported in Science. 
 Xena's name underscores one hope for the future of pig 
cloning - the use of these animals in xenotransplantation, 

(Greenpeace)
13) Birmingham Post August 24, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 6 
LENGTH: 274 words HEADLINE: GREENPEACE LAW THREAT ON GM 
TRIALS DISMISSED BODY: The Government yesterday rejected 
claims from Greenpeace that it would be acting unlawfully 
if it allowed trials of genetically -modified crops to go 
ahead without planning permission. The Ministry of 

14) The Guardian (London) August 24, 2000 SECTION: Guardian 
Leader Pages, Pg. 24 HEADLINE: Biotech has bamboozled us 
all; Studies Suggest That Traditional Farming Methods Are 
Still The Best BODY: The advice could scarcely have come 
from a more surprising source. If anyone tells you that GM 
is going to feed the world," Steve Smith, a director of the 

15) The Scotsman August 24, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 2 HEADLINE: 
CONCERN AS APPROVAL IS GIVEN FOR MORE GM CROP TRIALS 
BYLINE: John Ross BODY: THE executive yesterday gave the 
go-ahead for a new wave of experiments on genetically 
modified crops , and was accused of "gambling" with the 
countryside. The decision may also face a legal challenge 

MILITARY

16) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: CTBT commission hopes China 
will ratify treaty soon DATELINE: VIENNA, Aug 24 BODY: The 
Vienna-based preparatory commission for a global agreement 
to ban nuclear weapons testing (CTBTO) said Thursday it 
hoped that China would ratify the treaty in the near future.
"There are some hopes with China. They might ratify in a 

17) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Denmark refuses to take 
stand on US missile shield DATELINE: COPENHAGEN, Aug 24 
BODY: Denmark refused Thursday to state its official 
position on the United States' controversial nuclear 
missile defense (NMD) program, despite pressure from 
opposition parties bitterly against the plan. A US radar 

18) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 24, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 1 
HEADLINE: India vows to maintain freeze on N-tests until 
CTBT in place BYLINE: Kohei Kawashima Yomiuri Shimbun 
Correspondent ; Yomiuri DATELINE: NEW DELHI BODY: Indian 
Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh assured visiting Japanese 
Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Wednesday that India would 

19) TASS HEADLINE: Kursk sub to be removed from seabed 
anyway--General Staff. BYLINE: By Andrei Marychev, Sergei 
Bodanov DATELINE: MOSCOW, August 24 BODY: The Russian 
General Staff believes that the sunken Kursk nuclear 
-powered submarine should be removed from the place of 
distress in any case, First Deputy Chief-of-Staff Valery 

(Greenpeace)
20) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 585 words HEADLINE: Kursk 
meltdown threat eases, but long-term menace remains BYLINE: 
Bernard Besserglik DATELINE: MURMANSK, Russia, Aug 24 BODY: 
A report that radiation levels in the Barents Sea have 
remained normal since the wreck of the nuclear -powered 
submarine Kursk eases fears of a nuclear meltdown on the 

21) Interfax Russian News August 24, 2000, HEADLINE: The Kursk 
crew prevented ecological catastrophe -- general BODY: 
MOSCOW. Aug 24 (Interfax) Russian army commanders have said 
they think that the Kursk submarine's crew prevented an 
ecological catastrophe that could have happened as result 
of the wreck. "Preliminary information shows that the 

22) The New York Times August 24, 2000, Late Edition - Final 
SECTION: Section A; Page 1; Column 1; Foreign Desk 
HEADLINE: A Transformed Russia BYLINE: By PATRICK E. TYLER 
DATELINE: MOSCOW, Aug. 23 BODY: With a public confession 
tonight by President Vladimir V. Putin that he feels 
"responsibility and guilt" for the loss of the nuclear 

(Greenpeace)
23) RusData DiaLine- BizEkon News August 24, 2000 SECTION: News 
LENGTH: 381 words HEADLINE: Dormant, But Very Dangerous 
BYLINE: Vitaly Romanov SOURCE: SEGODNYA, pp. 1, 3 HIGHLIGHT:
Western press assertions about increased radiation in 
Berents Sea due to accident with "Kursk" submarine are 
denied by Russian naval command, though such prospect is 

24) The Times (London) August 24, 2000, SECTION: Overseas news 
HEADLINE: Bodies cannot be recovered from the deep until 
summer BYLINE: Michael Evans Defence Editor BODY: THE 
Norwegian company whose divers led the Kursk rescue attempt 
added to President Putin's woes yesterday when it issued a 
warning that no salvage operation could be contemplated 

(Greenpeace)
25) The Herald (Glasgow) August 23, 2000 SECTION: Pg. 14 
LENGTH: 684 words HEADLINE: Radiation fears growing as 
Kursk death toll rises to 130;Contamination could begin in 
four to six weeks, warns ex-navy officer BYLINE: Vicky 
Collins BODY: TWELVE civilians perished on the Kursk 
submarine together with the 118 navy personnel, a Russian 

26) All Rights Reserved Jane's Defence Weekly August 23, 2000 
SECTION: HEADLINES; Vol. 34; No. 8 LENGTH: 327 words 
HEADLINE: Gibraltar protests over SSN repairs BYLINE: 
Richard Scott JDW Naval Editor BODY: Protesters in 
Gibraltar have demanded that the UK Royal Navy (RN) 
nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) HMS Tireless be 

NUCLEAR POWER

(Greenpeace)
27) CTK National News Wire August 23, 2000 SECTION: General News
LENGTH: 255 words HEADLINE: PUT OFF TEMELIN ACTIVATION SAY 
GREENPEACE - REACTOR IS DAMAGED BYLINE: ICE DATELINE: 
PRAGUE, Aug 23 ; (ICE) KEYWORD: 'Czech environment 
government Temelin' BODY: The Greenpeace environmentalist 
organisation sent letters to the government members today 

28) Police to make arrests over Tokaimura nuclear accident 
MITO, Japan, Aug. 25 (Kyodo) -- Police plan to arrest about 
three employees of JCO Co., operators of a 
uranium-processing facility in Tokaimura, Ibaraki 
Prefecture, over a fatal nuclear chain reaction last 
September that killed two JCO workers and exposed hundreds 

29) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Japan steps up safety checks 
at accident-prone nuclear plants DATELINE: TOKYO, Aug 24 
BODY: Japan's government is stepping up safety checks at 
all nuclear power plants following the nation's worst 
nuclear energy disaster last September, an official said 
Thursday. The Natural Resources and Energy Agency will 

30) Workers exposed to higher radiation levels: researchers 
CANBERRA, Aug 24 AAP - Thousands of workers in nuclear 
plants such as hospitals, universities and industry are 
being exposed to radiation 10 times worse than currently 
recorded, a new study shows. The World Health Organisation 
(WHO) said the study, published in New Scientist magazine, 

31) Daily Record August 24, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 17 
HEADLINE: THE ATOMIC CHIP; NUCLEAR ALERT AS DOG CHASES 
RABBIT INTO POWER STATION BODY: A DOG called Chip sparked a 
nuclear alert after chasing a rabbit down a hole near a 
Scots power plant. The terrier ran off while being walked 
by owner Keith Proudfoot near the Chapelcross station in 

OCEANS

32) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Over-fished seas take 
decades to recover, says researcher DATELINE: PARIS, Aug 24 
BODY: Over-exploited fish stocks can take decades to 
recover, confounding optimists who believe that threatened 
species can be rebound quickly if they are left alone, 
according to a study published Thursday. Canadian scientist 

(Greenpeace)
33) Chicago Tribune August 24, 2000 CHICAGO SPORTS FINAL EDITION
SECTION: News; Pg. 4; ZONE: N LENGTH: 1140 words HEADLINE: 
JAPAN HAS A BEEF WITH WHALE QUOTAS BYLINE: By Uli 
Schmetzer, Tribune Foreign Correspondent. DATELINE: TOKYO 
BODY: Behind the wharfs in Tokyo's Toyomi-Cho district, the 
Institute of Cetacean Research is making sure Japanese 

34) PAKISTAN'S FISHER-FOLK AND ENVIROS TAKE ON FACTORY TRAWLERS 
By Ahmar Mustikhan KARACHI, Pakistan, August 23, 2000 (ENS) 
- Fishermen in Pakistan's two southern provinces, Sindh and 
Balochistan, are angry that foreign trawlers, also called 
fish factories, are overfishing Pakistan's territorial 
waters. The government has invited representatives of the 

35) Interfax Russian News August 24, 2000, RUSSIAN FISH FARMS 
TO RAISE 1.8 BLN FISH FRY Russian fish farms will raise 1.8 
billion salmon, sturgeon, cisco and other types of fry in 
2000 to be released into the sea and domestic waterways, 
the deputy head of the State Fisheries Committee, Vladimir 
Izmailov, said. There are 140 fish farms in Russia, 

TOXICS

36) The Province August 23, 2000 EDITION Final News PAGE A4 
Pollution is making kids ill: Child-health study shows 25 
per cent increase in cancer in past 25 years Don Harrison 
Children are increasingly at risk of contracting serious 
diseases from environmental pollution, says a 375-page 
report released yesterday by the Canadian Institute for 

37) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 24, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 2 
HEADLINE: Panel overlooked relevant dioxin report BYLINE: 
Yomiuri BODY: The secondary exposure to a high 
concentration of dioxins by workers demolishing 
incineration facilities at Toyonogun Bika Center in 
Nosecho, Osaka Prefecture, occurred under circumstances 

38) The Gazette (Montreal) August 24, 2000, FINAL SECTION: 
News; B11 HEADLINE: Another reason to dislike Barbie: 
hormone problems BYLINE: PAUL RECER DATELINE: WASHINGTON 
BODY: Warning: mom's old Barbie doll may be dangerous to 
your health. As plastic used in Barbie and some other old 
toys decays, researchers say, it can drip a chemical that 

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