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Global News Headlines 08/31
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Thursday, August 31, 2000
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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ATMOSPHERE
1) Agence France Presse August 31, 2000, HEADLINE: Air
pollution causes six percent of deaths in Europe: study
DATELINE: PARIS, Sept 1 BODY: Europe's love affair with the
car costs tens of thousands of deaths from air pollution
each year and carries an astronomical economic price,
according to research published Saturday in The Lancet, the
2) The Ottawa Citizen August 31, 2000, HEADLINE: Canada faces
climatic catastrophe: Global warming could wipe out
hundreds of animal and plant species BYLINE: Bev Wake BODY:
Global warming will hit Canada harder than almost any
country in the world, killing or altering half the current
plant habitat and placing hundreds of species at risk,
3) The Guardian (London) August 31, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Home Pages, Pg. 7 HEADLINE: Warming threat to many species
BYLINE: Paul Brown Environment correspondent BODY: Global
warming is likely to destroy more than half the earth's
colder habitats by the end of the century, causing the
extinction of species which cannot adapt or move quickly
4) The Independent (London) August 31, 2000, HEADLINE:
NORTHERN HABITATS THREATENED BY CLIMATE CHANGE BYLINE:
Michael Mccarthy Environment Correspondent BODY: TREES,
PLANTS and flowers in the northern hemisphere will have to
"migrate" northwards at up to a kilometre a year to survive
global warming, a report suggested yesterday. The shift, by
5) National Post August 31, 2000 SECTION: FINANCIAL POST:
EDITORIAL; Pg. C15, Global Warming: A New Look HEADLINE:
Hansen: Alternative to Kyoto BYLINE: James Hansen et
al;Excerpted from Global Warming in the 21st Century: An
Alternative Scenario, by James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Reto
Ruedy, Andrew Lacis, and Valdar Oinas. BODY: Acommon view
ENERGY
6) BANGKOK POST August 31, 2000 HEADLINE: OIL CRISIS: Pilot
project on ethanol fuel: State in research deal with Ford
BODY: A pilot project into the use of ethanol made from
farm crops as a vehicle fuel was announced yesterday, in a
move to ease reliance on increasingly expensive imported
oil. A memorandum of understanding for a joint study was
FORESTS
7) Interfax Russian News August 31, 2000, HEADLINE: 60 MLN
FOREST LOAN TO RUSSIA$ BODY: WORLD BANK TO RELEASE$ 60 MLN
FOREST LOAN TO RUSSIA The World Bank has not frozen a$ 60
million loan for sustainable forest management projects in
Russia, and has recently confirmed that it plans to
implement this project and release the funds, First Deputy
GENETIC ENGINEERING
8) Reuters Australia seeks views on GM potato safety reports
AUSTRALIA: August 31, 2000 SYDNEY- The Australia and New
Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) yesterday released safety
assessment reports for three genetically modified (GM)
varieties of potato for public comment. This brings to 10
the number of GM foods on which full safety assessments
9) The Toronto Star August 31, 2000, SECTION: BUSINESS
HEADLINE: GUELPH HARVESTS FIRST GM CORN AND POTATOES BODY:
Vik Kirsch TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE GUELPH - The University of
Guelph yesterday marked the first harvest of genetically
engineered sweet corn and potatoes at its model farm in
Hillsburgh. To a casual observer, the two ears of corn
10) BUSINESS LINE August 31, 2000 HEADLINE: India: Mahyco
begins large-scale field trials on Bt cotton BODY: NEW
DELHI, Aug. 30. THE Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company
(Mahyco), an associate of multinational giant Monsanto, has
begun large-scale field trials of transgenic Bt cotton
plants in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, following the
11) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 31, 2000, HEADLINE: ROUNDUP:
Biotechnology key to solving hunger, says FAO chief
DATELINE: Yokohama BODY: Biotechnology and recent advances
in science and technology are providing key opportunities
to solve global poverty and hunger amid rapidly increasing
demands for foods and dwindling natural resources, the
12) The Guardian (London) August 31, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Home Pages, Pg. 5 HEADLINE: Move to try out GM feed on
cattle BYLINE: James Meikle BODY: The government is to
consider proposals for the first experiments using
home-grown genetically modified animal feed on cattle. The
feed is made from fodder maize grown during this summer's
13) The Guardian (London) August 31, 2000 SECTION: Guardian
Home Pages, Pg. 10 HEADLINE: Natural way to decaf coffee or
tea BODY: Scientists today foresee a world in which
caffeine free coffee or tea is grown naturally on
genetically modified bushes. Alan Crozier of the University
of Glasgow and four colleagues from three Japanese
14) The Scotsman August 31, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 8 HEADLINE:
MINISTER INVITED TO GM TRIAL MEETING BYLINE: John Ross BODY:
PEOPLE living near a site earmarked for a GM crop trial in
the Highlands will outline their concerns tonight at a
public meeting called after legal and political attempts to
halt the experiment failed. The meeting has been organised
(Greenpeace)
15) Coventry Evening Telegraph August 30, 2000, SECTION:
FEATURES; Pg. 6, 7 LENGTH: 1819 words HEADLINE: PUTTING THE
SAFETY OF GM CROP TESTS ON TRIAL BYLINE: Alison Mcconkey
BODY: THE controversy surrounding genetically-modified
crops is hotting up again in the wake of the government
confirming the locations of the next farm scale trials.
MILITARY
16) Mainichi Daily News August 31, 2000, SECTION: Page 1; FRONT
PAGE HEADLINE: Secret nuke pact BODY: US given free rein to
bring weapons into Japan By Yoshinori Nakai Mainichi
Correspondent WASHINGTON -- Tokyo allows U.S. forces armed
with nuclear weapons to call on their bases in Japan
without any prior consultation in a secret pact agreed by
17) TASS HEADLINE: No weapon tests on board Kursk. BYLINE: By
Andrei Marychev, Pavel Koryashkin DATELINE: MOSCOW, August
31 BODY: There have been no tests of new weapons on the
Kursk nuclear submarine. The military believe the accident
has most probably been caused by a collision with an
underwater object, Colonel-General Valery Manilov, first
18) Birmingham Post August 31, 2000, SECTION: Pg. 9 HEADLINE:
DIVERS WILL RECOVER BODIES FROM KURSK BODY: Russian and
Norwegian divers will start the delicate task of recovering
the remains of 118 seamen who died in the Kursk submarine
disaster in late September, a Russian government official
yesterday. After meeting President Vladimir Putin, Deputy
19) Interfax Russian News HEADLINE: Sunken sub may become
source of radiation in several years - expert BODY: MOSCOW.
Aug 31 (Interfax) The nuclear reactor of the sunken
submarine Kursk poses no immediate radiation threat to the
environment, but radiation leaks are possible in a few
years' time, Alexander Nikitin, an activist of the Bellona
20) AP Worldstream August 31, 2000; HEADLINE: Region of
mysterious illness in Ukraine declared disaster zone
BYLINE: SERGEI SHARGORODSKY DATELINE: KIEV, Ukraine BODY:
President Leonid Kuchma on Thursday declared four southern
Ukrainian villages an ecological disaster zone, following
an outbreak of a mysterious illness some have blamed on
NUCLEAR POWER
(Greenpeace)
21) Czech utility CEZ files lawsuit against Greenpeace PRAGUE,
Aug 31 (Reuters) - Czech utility CEZ said on Thursday it
had filed suit against Greenpeace accusing the
environmental activist organisation of libelling it over
the controversial new Temelin nuclear power plant. In a
statement, CEZ said Greenpeace's Czech chapter had
(Greenpeace)
22) BBC Monitoring Europe - Political LENGTH: 168 words SOURCE:
CTK news agency, Prague, in English 31 Aug 00 BODY:
Austrian Greenpeace seeks summit on disputed Czech nuclear
plant Vienna, 31st August: Austrian Greenpeace sent a
letter to Austrian President Thomas Klestil today demanding
that a summit of three central European presidents on the
(Greenpeace)
23) NEW YORK SUMMIT ON DISPUTED CZECH NUCLEAR PLANT
"UNREALISTIC" - PRESIDENT - BBC Monitoring Service 332 words
Text of report in English by the Czech news agency CTK
Prague, 31st August: The holding of a summit on the nuclear
power plant being completed in Temelin, southern Bohemia,
in New York as demanded by the Austrian Greenpeace seems to
24) Russia prepares for utilisation of weapon-grade ...
LONDON, August 31 (Itar-Tass) - Russia is conducting
"intensive preparations" for the implementations of the
agreement with the United States on the utilisation of
weapon-grade plutonium, Russian First Deputy Minister of
Atomic Energy, Valentin Ivanov, said here on Thursday,
25) TASS HEADLINE: IAEA conducts seismic stability research at
Russian plant. BYLINE: By Denis Pinchuk DATELINE: SOSNOVYI
BOR ,Leningrad region, August 31 BODY: The International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is analyzing the seismic
stability of the first unit structures at the Leningrad
nuclear power plant, a spokesman for the nuclear power
(Greenpeace)
26) CONTROVERSY LIKELY IF RUSSO-GERMAN PLUTONIUM-PLANT DEAL
GOES AHEAD - BBC Monitoring Service 30-Aug-2000 606 words
Germany is considering transferring plutonium-reprocessing
equipment to Russia. The equipment is currently standing
idle and may be sold for a fraction of its cost.
Environmentalists have already expressed opposition to the
27) The Irish Times August 31, 2000 SECTION: CITY EDITION;
EDITORIAL PAGE; EDITORIAL COMMENT; Pg. 17 HEADLINE: BNFL
and Russia BODY: The prospect of British Nuclear Fuels
(BNFL), the owner and operator of the Sellafield nuclear
reprocessing plant in Cumbria, becoming involved in
improving nuclear safety in Russia, does not inspire
(Greenpeace)
28) BNFL EXPECTED TO RUN NUCLEAR CLEANUP IN FORMER SOVIET
STATES - Irish Times ; 30-Aug-2000 BY RACHEL DONNELLY
British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL), the owner and operator of the
Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria, is
emerging as the front runner to operate an (pounds) 80
million British government aid package to improve nuclear
OCEANS
29) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: More than 100 endangered
turtles born on Italian island DATELINE: LAMPEDUSA, Italy,
Aug 31 BODY: More than 100 baby sea turtles of the
so-called Caretta caretta species have dashed for the sea
for the last days after much pampering by environmentalists
on the small island of Lampedusa, off Sicily's southern
30) U.S. to boycott Japan event over whaling WASHINGTON, Aug 30
(Reuters) - The United States has decided to boycott a
meeting of environment ministers in Japan next week in
response to Japan's decision to expand whaling, a State
Department official said on Wednesday. "As an initial
diplomatic response to Japan's expansion of its whaling
31) Business Day (South Africa) August 31, 2000 SECTION:
International; Pg. 7 HEADLINE: US OPPOSES WHALE HUNT
BYLINE: Edward Alden DATELINE: NEW YORK BODY: The US is
preparing to certify that an expanded whale hunt by Japan is
threatening several species protected under US law, a
decision that could trigger economic sanctions against
32) WORLD NEWS: TRADE: US steps up pressure on Japan over
whaling Financial Times ; 31-Aug-2000 By EDWARD ALDEN The
US yesterday increased diplomatic pressure on Japan to shut
down its programme of whale hunting by announcing it would
boycott several international meetings in Japan. Richard
Boucher, State Department spokesman, said the US has
TOXICS
(Greenpeace)
33) South China Morning Post August 29, 2000 SECTION: NEWS; Pg.
5 LENGTH: 389 words HEADLINE: Aqueduct 'won't increase
charges' BYLINE: Cheung Chi-fai BODY: A new aqueduct to
carry cleaner water from the mainland will not bring higher
charges with it, an official said yesterday. Ye Xuquan,
director of Guangdong Enterprise (Holding), which is taking
X-OTHER-X
(Greenpeace)
34) Agence France Presse LENGTH: 195 words HEADLINE:
Anti-development protestors arrested in Cyprus DATELINE:
NICOSIA, Aug 31 BODY: Police forcibly removed 12 Greenpeace
protesters chained to Nicosia's presidential palace gates
during a demonstration against the government's decision to
allow "mild" development on Cyprus unspoiled Akamas
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