Global News Headlines - June 29

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Friday, June 29, 2001
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ATMOSPHERE

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1) Agence France Presse June 29, 2001, 632 words HEADLINE: 
Koizumi to present toned-down Kyoto draft to Bush: report 
DATELINE: TOKYO, June 29 BODY: Japanese Prime Minister 
Junichiro Koizumi this weekend will hand President George 
W. Bush a plan to tone down the targets of the Kyoto 
Protocol on global warming, a report said Friday. Koizumi 

(Greenpeace)
2) Financial Times (London) June 29, 2001, USA Edition 1 
MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA & LATIN AMERICA; Pg. 3 509 words 
HEADLINE: Hopes rise for saving the Kyoto protocol BYLINE: 
By VANESSA HOULDER DATELINE: LONDON BODY: The prospects of 
rescuing the ailing Kyoto protocol on climate change appear 
to have strengthened following several days of informal 

(Greenpeace)
3) New Scientist June 30, 2001 This Week, Pg. 19 507 words 
HEADLINE: Carbon sunk BYLINE: Nicola Jones HIGHLIGHT: Is 
dumping greenhouse gases in the oceans even worth a try ? 
BODY: IT SEEMS like a great idea: slow global warming by 
pumping carbon dioxide to the bottom of the ocean, where it 
will remain locked up for centuries. But a new model of the 

4) The Express June 29, 2001 NEWS; Pg. 35 HEADLINE: 
CATASTROPHES HIT 256M IN 2000; EARTH ALERT AFTER YEAR OF 
DISASTER BYLINE: FROM RICHARD WADDINGTON IN GENEVA BODY: 
THE year 2000 was the most disastrous in a decade, with 
some 256million people worldwide affected by natural 
catastrophes and more than 20,000 killed. The figures, 

5) Urbanization Deepens Global Warming: U.S. Researcher 
WASHINGTON, Jun 28, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- U.S. 
 experts warned here Thursday that if governments do not 
act quickly to discourage city sprawling, the international 
effort to control global warming will become much more 
difficult. According to a new study released by the 

6) BBC Monitoring Central Asia Unit June 28, 2001, HEADLINE: 
Uzbek climate change report predicts worse to come SOURCE: 
Narodnoye Slovo, Tashkent, in Russian 28 Jun 01 p2 BODY: 
Newspaper headline The climate of our tomorrow, by Anatoliy 
Yershov Subheading During the presentation at the UNDP's 
office in the Uzbek capital Tashkent yesterday of a joint 

ENERGY

7) New Scientist June 30, 2001 This Week, Pg. 10 HEADLINE: 
Darkness at noon BYLINE: Duncan Graham-Rowe HIGHLIGHT: Are 
fossil fuels blotting out a major renewable energy source ? 
BODY: THE future is looking cloudy for solar energy - 
literally. Pollutants in the air produced by burning fossil 
fuels could be making solar cells up to 60 per cent less 

FORESTS

8) Los Angeles Times June 29, 2001  Home Edition California; 
Part 2; Page 11; Metro Desk HEADLINE: The State; IN BRIEF / 
SAN FRANCISCO; $60-Million Plan Seeks to Save Redwoods 
BYLINE: From Times Wire Reports BODY: A stand of redwoods 
the size of San Francisco and home to 23 endangered species 
would be preserved in a $60-million plan between the state, 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

9) EU food industry concerned over GMO label rules BRUSSELS, 
June 28 (Reuters) - European industry representatives said 
on Thursday that food completely free of 
genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) was almost impossible 
and EU draft labelling rules were both unenforceable and 
costly. "There will always be some kind of risk of GMOs in 

10) Press Association June 29, 2001, HEADLINE: GM GIANT 
CHALLENGES ORDER TO DISCLOSE RESEARCH FINDINGS BYLINE: 
Simon Mowbray, Consumer Affairs Correspondent, PA News BODY:
A major producer of genetically modified crops is to 
challenge a Government decision ordering it to hand over 
research results to environment campaigners, it emerged 

11) German rapeseed firm as GM-wary buyers shun soyoil By 
Jeremy Smith LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) - German rapeseed 
prices pushed higher this week as food and biodiesel 
crushing plants competed for old-crop stocks, and ongoing 
European concern about GM crops boosted oil demand for rape 
over soy, traders said on Friday. Solid demand from 

12) Thai govt likely to label 3 pct GMO food imports BANGKOK, 
June 29 (Reuters) - Thailand is likely to introduce rules 
soon requiring all imports of food containing more than 
three percent of genetically modified organism (GMO) 
products to be labelled, officials said on Friday. 
 Thailand's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is due to 

MILITARY

13) 06/29 Top General: Russia Open to ABM Changes MOSCOW 
(Reuters) - Russia is open to changes to the 1972 ABM 
treaty, which bans a missile defense system planned by the 
United States, news agencies quoted a top Russian general 
as saying on Friday. Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, a 
military hawk in charge of international cooperation, said 

NUCLEAR POWER

14) Economic News June 29, 2001 HEADLINE: Protest Action 
Against Import of Spent Fuel Held in Moscow BODY: Moscow. 
 On June 28 dozens of Green Peace activists organised an 
unauthorised action against import of spent nuclear fuel to 
Russia on the Red Square. Law enforcement officers had 
detained 36 picketers who were released later. In the words 

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15) Moscow Times, Russia, Friday, Jun. 29, 2001. Page 3 30 
Greenpeace Protesters Held The Associated Press [Photo 
caption: Police breaking up Thursday's Greenpeace protest 
on Red Square against government plans to import spent 
nuclear fuel. ] Thirty Greenpeace activists were detained 
Thursday for protesting on Red Square against legislation 

(Greenpeace)
16) CTK National News Wire June 28, 2001 377 words HEADLINE: 
BUHUNICE V1 NUCLEAR POWER PLANT DANGEROUS - 
ENVIRONMENTALISTS DATELINE: BRATISLAVA, June 28 ; (VV) BODY:
Despite expansive reconstructions of the V1 nuclear power 
station in Jaslovske Bohunice, west Slovakia, the station 
is still dangerous, representatives of the Greenpeace and 

17) The Guardian (London) June 29, 2001 Guardian Home Pages, 
Pg. 2 HEADLINE: Plan for six nuclear stations BYLINE: Paul 
Brown Environment correspondent BODY: British Nuclear Fuels 
is to put forward plans to the government to build at least 
four, preferably six, new nuclear stations on the same 
sites as its existing ageing Magnox power plants that are 

18) The Independent (London) June 29, 2001, BUSINESS; Pg. 19 
HEADLINE: PRIVATISATION OF BNFL RULED OUT FOR THREE YEARS 
BYLINE: Michael Harrison BODY: PRIVATISATION OF British 
Nuclear Fuels, the state-owned reprocessing company, has 
been ruled out for at least the next three years because of 
the pounds 210m bottom-line loss it suffered last year. The 

19) The Herald (Glasgow) June 28, 2001 Pg. 5 HEADLINE: 90 more 
particles found at Dounreay BYLINE: David Ross Highland 
Correspondent BODY: DOUNREAY yesterday confirmed that 90 
radioactive particles had been found by divers surveying 
the seabed below the Pentland Firth, just offshore from the 
nuclear plant. It brought the total found on the foreshore 

OCEANS

20) Senate condemns killing sharks for fins CANBERRA, June 28 
AAP - The Senate today condemned the practice of taking 
fins from live sharks but failed to permanently ban the 
practice in tuna fisheries. The fins, worth up to $250 a 
kilo, are used in shark-fin soup, a Chinese delicacy sold 
for up to $100 a bowl. Australian Democrats fisheries 

21) XINHUA June 28, 2001, HEADLINE: Conservation Program for 
Endangered Sea Turtles Agreed: UNEP DATELINE: NAIROBI, June 
28 BODY: Countries bordering the Indian Ocean and in 
Southeast Asia have for the first time agreed to a 
wide-ranging plan to conserve endangered sea turtles in the 
region, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) said 

22) Korea Times June 30, 2001, HEADLINE: Oil Tanker, Cargo Ship 
CollideA Korean oil tanker and a Philippine cargo ship 
collided off the southern coast of Yosu, Cholla-namdo late 
Thursday night. No casualties were reported. BODY:    The 
1,240-ton Philippine-registered Aurora went under as a 
result of the collision, but marine police dispatched to 

23) AP Worldstream June 29, 2001; HEADLINE: Britian blocks 
Norwegian whale research to protest hunt BYLINE: DOUG 
MELLGREN DATELINE: OSLO, Norway BODY: Britain has blocked a 
planned whale survey in its waters to protest Norway's 
hunts for the marine mammals in defiance of a global ban, 
British and Norwegian officials said Friday. ''The message 

(Greenpeace)
24) New Scientist June 30, 2001 This Week, Pg. 18 317 words 
HEADLINE: Are pollock a red herring in Alaska's fishing 
debate ? BYLINE: Joanna Marchant BODY: IN A truly fishy 
farce, Alaska's fishing policy has been thrown into 
confusion by the dietary tastes of the Steller sea lion. 
 The US government and courts have been trying to stop 

25) Agence France Presse June 27, 2001, HEADLINE: Sealion 
saviours needed a herring aid DATELINE: PARIS, June 27 BODY:
Wildlife officials in Alaska set out on a crusade to to 
save the Steller sealion by banning trawling for walleye 
pollock, a fish deemed to be the endangered creature's only 
food. There was just one problem, oceanographers have now 

TOXICS

26) New Scientist June 30, 2001 This Week, Pg. 4 HEADLINE: 
Poison on your plate BYLINE: Debora MacKenzie (Brussels) 
HIGHLIGHT: Nothing is being done to stop dangerous 
chemicals getting into food BODY: BANNED toxic chemicals 
that can cause cancer are sneaking into food more often and 
at higher levels than anyone suspected. But there is no 

27) Reuters via http://www.planetark.org/ UPDATE - Canada's 
Supreme Court allows lawn-pesticide ban CANADA: June 29, 
2001 OTTAWA - In a landmark decision that environmentalists 
hailed as "a great step forward" for the health of 
Canadians, the country's Supreme Court ruled yesterday that 
municipalities across Canada have the right to ban the 

(Greenpeace)
28) The Economic Time, India, Friday Jun 29 2001 Greens force 
HLL to close Kodaikanal plant Sheila Mathrani GENEVA 
HINDUSTAN Lever will be closing its thermometer mercury 
factory at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu. The move follows 
pressure and protests from the international environment 
NGO Greenpeace, citizens groups, and former Unilever 

(Greenpeace)
29) PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS SERVED TOXIC BREAKFASTS 
DARWIN, Jun 29, 2001 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- Activists 
served up a toxic barbeque breakfast to Environment 
officials from Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea 
this morning as part of a Greenpeace campaign to protest 
dioxin in food. Federal Environment Minister Robert Hill 

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