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Global News Headlines - May 22
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NEWSLINK: Environmental News Headlines
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Tuesday, May 22, 2001
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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An overview of the environmental news of the day
ATMOSPHERE
1) The Times (London) May 21, 2001, Overseas news HEADLINE:
Siberian floods worsen after jets bomb ice dam BYLINE:
Giles Whittell in Moscow BODY: SURGING water levels
increased by the aerial bombing of ice on one of Russia's
longest rivers were threatening the city of Yakutsk last
night as Siberia struggles to cope with its worst spring
(Greenpeace)
2) ENVIRONMENT: GREENS TARGET EXXONMOBIL IN FIGHT ...
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2001 (Inter Press Service via COMTEX)
-- With the outlook bleak for the global treaty on climate
change, environmentalists are training their fire on the
only major oil company openly skeptical of the science
behind global warming: ExxonMobil. Through boycotts and
ENERGY
3) Los Angeles Times May 21, 2001 Home Edition Part A; Part
1; Page 1; Metro Desk HEADLINE: THE NATION; ; First Battle
Begins Over Drilling Policy BYLINE: GEOFFREY MOHAN, TIMES
STAFF WRITER DATELINE: WEATHERMAN DRAW, MONT. BODY: The
artists never signed their names, and for centuries their
sandstone gallery remained hidden from all but their tribal
FORESTS
4) National Post May 22, 2001 EDITION National Canada PAGE A8
Concrete spikes pose danger to loggers: Latest tactic by
activists avoids detection Glenn Bohn NELSON, B.C. -
Environmental activists bent on stopping logging are using
tree spikes made of concrete to evade detection and create
a deadly hazard in some British Columbia forests. The
5) The Guardian (London) May 21, 2001 Guardian Home Pages, Pg.
3 HEADLINE: Last chance to save great apes from extinction:
Conservationists launch desperate effort to stop humanity
killing closest relatives BYLINE: Tim Radford Science editor
BODY: An international push to save the great apes - the
gorilla, orang-utan and chimpanzee - from extinction is
6) The International Herald Tribune May 21, 2001 NEWS; Pg. 1
HEADLINE: Mischievous Species Capitalize on Globalization
BYLINE: Barry James SOURCE: International Herald Tribune
DATELINE: PARIS BODY: Invading "aliens" are costing the
global economy possibly hundreds of billions of dollars
every year as well as spreading diseases and causing massive
7) THE JAKARTA POST May 21, 2001 HEADLINE: Trucks impounded
for illegal logs BODY: PADANG, West Sumatra: West Sumatra
Police on Saturday impounded eight trucks and questioned
their drivers for transporting logs without proper
documentation from several areas in the province. West
Sumatra Police chief of detectives, Sr. Comr. Octavianus
8) DAILY MAIL (London) May 22, 2001 HEADLINE: GENOCIDE AND THE
GREAT APES BYLINE: DR JANE GOODALL*TO BE ADVISED* BODY: We
are killing our brothers and sisters. Humankind's closest
relatives, the Great Apes, are on their way out, according
to experts at the United Nations. Unless we act fast, a
group of animals with whom we share so much will be gone
GENETIC ENGINEERING
9) The Independent (London) May 22, 2001, NEWS; Pg. 2
HEADLINE: GM INDUSTRY SCRAPS PLANS FOR TESTS NEAR ORGANIC
CENTRE BYLINE: Michael Mccarthy Environment Editor BODY:
PLANS FOR Britain's most controversial GM crops site, close
to a world- famous organic farming centre, were scrapped
last night after a tide of protests. The GM industry
10) The Guardian (London) May 21, 2001 Guardian Home Pages, Pg.
5 HEADLINE: GM animals have role for third world' BYLINE:
Tim Radford Science editor BODY: Genetically modified farm
animals - altered to resist tropical diseases such as
sleeping sickness - could play a powerful role in helping
the developing world, according to a report today by
11) The Scotsman May 21, 2001, Pg. 6 HEADLINE: FEARS GROWING OF
GM ESCAPEES BYLINE: David Montgomery Science Correspondent
BODY: THE rearing of genetically-modified fish in sea
"farms" should be banned to prevent damage to wild fish
stocks, a report will claim today. More than 491,000 salmon
escaped from fish farms in Scotland last year, which
12) 05/22 'Gene giants' criticized at world ag forum By Carey
Gillam ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Reuters) - Too much power in the
hands of just a few biotech giants is undermining the
ability of farmers to fight hunger and poverty in
developing countries, an agricultural research expert said
Tuesday. "A steadily shrinking number of companies are
MILITARY
(Greenpeace)
13) The Press (Christchurch) May 19, 2001 NEWS; INTERNATIONAL;
Pg. 3; NEWS 184 words HEADLINE: Healthy nuclear soldiers
'lucky' BYLINE: WELLWOOD Elinore BODY: New Zealand
soldiers used as human guinea pigs in 1950s nuclear tests in
Australia may still be healthy through luck, says visiting
nuclear expert John Large. Mr Large, an independent nuclear
14) TASS May 22, 2001, HEADLINE: Russia to design portable nuke
arms if US does that-minister. BYLINE: By Veronika
Voskoboinikova DATELINE: MOSCOW, May 22 BODY: If the United
States designs portable nuclear arms, Russia will have to do
the same, Minister of Atomic Energy Alexander Rumyantsev
told representatives of the International Physicians for
15) The International Herald Tribune May 21, 2001 NEWS; Pg. 4
HEADLINE: In Policy Twist, U.S. and India Lean Toward
Strategic Partnership BYLINE: Pamela Constable SOURCE:
Washington Post Service DATELINE: NEW DELHI BODY: Three
years after India exploded five nuclear devices in the
Rajasthan desert, leading to U.S. economic and military
NUCLEAR POWER
16) CTK National News Wire May 21, 2001 HEADLINE: GERMAN
ENVIRONMENTALISTS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE SHUT-DOWN OF TEMELIN
BYLINE: INW DATELINE: BERLIN, May 22 ; (INW) BODY: The
German environmental group Union for the Protection of
Nature today called for the immediate halting of the trial
operation of the Temelin nuclear power station in south
17) Germany red-faced over nuke accident test fax BERLIN, May
22 (Reuters) - The German Environment Ministry
unintentionally released a practice warning statement about
a fictitious nuclear accident at a French power plant on
Tuesday -- which embarrassed officials rushed to withdraw.
"French authorities confirm a fault at the Gravelines
18) BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Political May 21,
2001, HEADLINE: Kenya interested in Russian help in
building nuclear power station SOURCE: ITAR-TASS news
agency, Moscow, in Russian 1215 gmt 21 May 01 BODY:
Nairobi, ITAR-TASS correspondent Andrey Polyakov: Relations
between Kenya and Russia "are developing apace". This is
19) N. Korea seeks S. Korean electricity until ...
SEOUL, May 22, 2001 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- North Korea has
demanded that South Korea supply it with electricity until
stalled construction of two light-water reactors in the
North by an international consortium is completed,
according to documents released Tuesday by South Korea's
(Greenpeace)
20) The Boston Globe May 21, 2001, THIRD EDITION
NATIONAL/FOREIGN; Pg. A1 1485 words HEADLINE: RADIOACTIVE
CORNER OF RUSSIA COULD GROW MORE SO UNDER PLAN BYLINE: By
David Filipov, GLOBE STAFF BODY: MUSLYUMOVO, Russia - The
Techa River, the main source of water for this Ural
Mountains farming community, flows through ground zero of
21) International Nuclear Emergency Exercise to Be ...
GENEVA, May 21, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An extensive
international nuclear emergency exercise will be held on
May 22-23 based on a French national exercise at the
Gravelines nuclear power plant located in the north of
France, according to a news release issued by the World
22) The Evening Standard (London) May 21, 2001 Pg. 4 HEADLINE:
Engineers assess damage after Dungeness N-plant fire BODY:
ENGINEERS at the Dungeness A Power Station were today
assessing the damage caused by a fire which broke out in a
turbine alternator at the Romney Marsh site. Kent fire
brigade sent eight engines as well as specialist equipment
(Greenpeace)
23) FEATURE-Nuclear renaissance has to reckon with Chernobyl By
Duncan Shiels LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - The evening of
April 26, 1986. Europe's media alert the public to
unusually high atmospheric radiation readings over
Scandinavia. Days later, the fearful continent learns why.
A huge explosion has blown the roof off Reactor Four at
OCEANS
(Greenpeace)
24) Agence France Presse May 22, 2001, 382 words HEADLINE:
Greenpeace seeks ban on hunting endangered Siberian seals
DATELINE: MOSCOW, May 21 BODY: Environmental group
Greenpeace called Monday for a ban on the commercial
hunting of the unique Siberian nerpa seal which is
threatened by poaching and pollution. "Greenpeace has every
25) XINHUA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE May 21, 2001, HEADLINE: S.
Africa, Australia to Cooperate to Fight Illegal Fishing
DATELINE: JOHANNESBURG, May 21 BODY: South Africa and
Australia on Monday pledged to cooperate in efforts to clamp
down on vessels fishing illegally in their respective
territorial waters. The vast distances both South Africa
TOXICS
26) HUNGER STRIKER WINS CANADA'S PROMISE ON SYDNEY TAR PONDS
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, May 20, 2001 (ENS) - A 17 day
hunger strike on Parliament Hill by the executive director
of the Sierra Club of Canada ended Friday as the government
promised to relocate families at risk who are living in the
neighborhoods adjacent to the Sydney Tar Ponds, Canada's
(Greenpeace)
27) The Evening Post (Wellington) May 19, 2001 FEATURES;
GENERAL; Pg. 32 1183 words HEADLINE: The ship graveyard
BYLINE: HERRICK Stefan BODY: Next month the former
Interislander ferry Arahanga - a familiar sight to
Wellingtonians for 30 years - will be torn apart at the
infamous Alang shipyard on the west coast of India. It is a
(Greenpeace)
28) Dawn 22/05/2001, Pakistan
[http://www.dawn.com/2001/05/22/int11.htm] 22 May 2001
Tuesday 27 Safar 1422 Legal fight grows tough for Bhopal
victims By Sandhya Srinavasan MUMBAI: Nearly 17 years of
seeking justice is long enough for the victims of the 1984
chemical disaster in Bhopal, but today Rashda Bi is even
(Greenpeace)
29) Agence France Presse May 21, 2001, 262 words HEADLINE:
Greenpeace activists chain themselves to Beirut hospital
incinerator BODY: BEIRUT, May 21 (AFP) - Activists from the
environmental group Greenpeace spent eight hours chained to
a door at a major Beirut hospital Monday in a vain attempt
to stop the use of an incinerator emitting cancer-causing
(Greenpeace)
30) Agence France Presse May 21, 2001, 384 words HEADLINE:
Greenpeace rails against Japanese aid agency in Bangkok
DATELINE: BANGKOK, May 21 BODY: Greenpeace staged a protest
Monday at the Bangkok headquarters of Japan's largest
public bank for loans to developing countries, accusing it
of funding toxic fume-spewing incinerators in Thailand.
(Greenpeace)
31) 05/22 UPDATE 1-Nations adopt treaty to ban toxic chemicals
By Alister Doyle STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Almost 130 nations
formally agreed to a U.N. treaty Tuesday to ban or minimize
use of a "dirty dozen" toxic chemicals blamed for causing
cancers and birth defects in people and animals.
Environment ministers or senior officials from 127
32) 05/21 Bears take brunt of toxic chemicals as ban looms By
Alister Doyle STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A U.N. treaty being
adopted in Stockholm Tuesday will ban a range of man-made
chemicals so toxic that they are causing polar bears in the
otherwise pristine Arctic to develop malformed sexual
organs. The 12 so-called persistent organic pollutants
(Greenpeace)
33) Agence France Presse May 21, 2001, 311 words HEADLINE: Ten
Greenpeace activists detained in demo over Turkish
incinerator DATELINE: ANKARA, May 21 BODY: Police detained
10 activists from the environmental group Greenpeace Monday
during a demonstration against a toxic waste incinerator in
the northwestern Turkish city of Izmit, the group said.
(Greenpeace)
34) The Guardian (London) May 22, 2001 Guardian Home Pages, Pg.
8 626 words HEADLINE: Incinerator breaches go unpunished;
Poisonous Chemicals Pumped Into Atmosphere, Report Reveals
BYLINE: Paul Brown Environment correspondent BODY: Hundreds
of pollution offences being committed by operators of
household waste incinerators each year are escaping
(Greenpeace)
35) Ananova Tuesday 22nd May 2001
[http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_301028.html]
Greenpeace activists protest in incinerator Greenpeace
protesters are occupying an incinerator in Sheffield which
they claim is the worst in the country for breaking
pollution laws. Two teams of Greenpeace campaigners entered
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