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Global News Headlines - July 8
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Sunday, July 8, 2001
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ATMOSPHERE
1) The Ottawa Citizen July 8, 2001 EDITION Final News PAGE B8
Millions face starvation as drought sweeps Asia: Crisis
conditions linked to global warming Martin Fackler
DALANYINGZI, China -- The wheat should be waist-high by now,
but Yu Zhijun must bend down below his knees to grab the
brittle yellow stalks. His crop withered when spring rains
2) Independent on Sunday (London) July 8, 2001, NEWS; Pg. 15
HEADLINE: THAMES BARRIER IN ACTION AGAINST FLOODS BYLINE:
Geoffrey Lean Environment Editor BODY: Emergency action was
needed to save London from flooding more than once a week,
on average, during the first three months of this year. The
Thames Barrier - the world's largest moving flood defence -
3) The Seattle Times July 7, 2001, Fourth Edition ROP ZONE;
News; Pg. A4 HEADLINE: Bush would cut climate aid BYLINE:
John Heilprin; Copyright 2001 The Associated Press
DATELINE: Washington BODY: WASHINGTON--President Bush,
after faulting the Kyoto climate treaty for excluding
developing nations from its requirements, wants to cut U.S.
(Greenpeace)
4) Los Angeles Times July 8, 2001 Home Edition Part A; Part
1; Page 1; National Desk 1664 words HEADLINE: THE NATION; ;
Front-Row Exposure to Global Warming; Climate: Engineers
say Alaskan village could be lost as sea encroaches.
BYLINE: KIM MURPHY, TIMES STAFF WRITER DATELINE:
SHISHMAREF, Alaska BODY: As world leaders debate the
ENERGY
5) The New York Times July 8, 2001, Late Edition - Final
Section 4; Page 7; Column 1; Week in Review Desk HEADLINE:
Where Have All the Windmills Gone? BYLINE: By JAMES
STERNGOLD DATELINE: LOS ANGELES BODY: WHEN California's
electricity market began to malfunction last year, sending
wholesale prices soaring, the market for solutions to the
FORESTS
6) The New York Times July 7, 2001, Late Edition - Final
Section A; Page 5; Column 5; Foreign Desk HEADLINE: German
Loggers to Leave 'African Eden' Untouched BYLINE: By
ANDREW C. REVKIN BODY: In a move that wildlife biologists
say has spared an African Eden, a German logging company
said yesterday that it had given up its lease on a tract of
7) India road plan would cost 28,000 trees - minister PATNA,
India, July 7 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee's project to link the entire country by highway
would result in the felling of about 28,000 trees in the
eastern state of Bihar, a federal minister said. "According
to our survey, 28,000 trees will have to be chopped down to
8) Chicago Tribune July 8, 2001 CHICAGOLAND EDITION News; Pg.
7; ZONE: C HEADLINE: Illegal logging endangers Indonesia
BYLINE: By Edward A. Gargan, Newsday. DATELINE: BANGSRI,
Indonesia BODY: The last of central Java's great teakwood
forests ends up in places like this, a place filled with
the whine of buzz saws and the burr of electric sanders, a
9) Newsweek July 9, 2001, Atlantic Edition SPECIAL REPORT; Pg.
36 HEADLINE: The Rape of Paradise BYLINE: By Tom Masland
HIGHLIGHT: After years of abuse, these rich forests are
dwindling, and nobody knows how to save what's left BODY:
Legend has it that the king of one of the warring
Betsimsaraka clans climbed a mountain peak in what is now
GENETIC ENGINEERING
10) GM trial sites released today SYDNEY, July 7 AAP - Details
of more than 500 locations where genetically modified (GM)
crops are being trialled nationwide have been posted on a
government website. The Office of the Gene Technology
Regulator today revealed 518 locations on its website.
Companies had until midnight last night to apply for
11) Chicago Tribune July 8, 2001 CHICAGOLAND EDITION News; Pg.
3; ZONE: C HEADLINE: Safety of modified food taken up by UN
BYLINE: By Jonathan Fowler, Associated Press. DATELINE:
GENEVA BODY: The top United Nations food standards body has
agreed to draw up global guidelines to ensure the safety of
genetically modified food in supermarkets. The 165 member
12) MAIL ON SUNDAY July 8, 2001 BODY: A GREAT new musical will
open soon: GM Cats. It will star American Dr David Avner
whose company, Transgenic Pets, aims to engineer the first
free-from-allergen felines. They would sell to millions of
allergic cat-lovers. Dr Avner is struggling to raise
research funds, but he will not struggle long. A new market
13) The Guardian (London) July 7, 2001 Guardian Foreign Pages,
Pg. 15 HEADLINE: Clare Short in Indian GM crops row: Aid
programme comes under fire for supporting disputed scheme
BYLINE: Luke Harding in New Delhi and John Vidal BODY:
Britain's overseas aid programme in India was under attack
last night by MPs, development groups, academics and local
14) BIOTECHNOLOGY: NEW FEARS FOR U.S. FOOD SAFETY WASHINGTON,
Jul 6, 2001 (Inter Press Service via COMTEX) -- New concerns
have arisen about the safety of the U.S. food supply and
about the effectiveness of current efforts to maintain a
separation between genetically engineered and conventional
products. This follows revelations this week that StarLink,
15) The New York Times July 8, 2001, Late Edition - Final
Section 1; Page 4; Column 1; Foreign Desk HEADLINE: Move to
Curb Biotech Crops Ignores Poor, U.N. Finds BYLINE: By
BARBARA CROSSETTE DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS, July 6 BODY:
Opposition in richer countries to genetically modified
crops may set back the ability of the poorest nations to
16) The New York Times July 7, 2001, Late Edition - Final
Section B; Page 1; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk HEADLINE:
NYC; How to Make A Pied Piper Obsolete BYLINE: By Clyde
Haberman BODY: A SMALL company upstate is trying to produce
a genetically modified cat. In a world that has yet to
figure out how to make a yogurt container that doesn't
17) Associated Press. July 7, 2001, HEADLINE: WEEKLY FARM:
Biotech crop plantings soar despite controversy BYLINE: By
PHILIP BRASHER, AP Farm Writer DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY:
Genetically engineered crops are soaring in popularity with
U.S. farmers, exceeding levels the government predicted
earlier this year. The growth comes despite the lingering
MILITARY
18) The Times of India July 7, 2001 HEADLINE: N-ABLING THE NAVY
VITAL BYLINE: THE TIMES OF INDIA NEWS SERVICE BODY: MUMBAI:
A nuclear-capable Indian Navy will be an asset in
fulfilling New Delhi's policy of discouraging superior
forces from asserting their clout in the Indian Ocean, The
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' has observed. According
19) The Washington Post July 07, 2001, Final Edition A SECTION;
Pg. A19 HEADLINE: Russia Seeks 5-Nation Talks On Reducing
Nuclear Arms BYLINE: Peter Baker, Washington Post Foreign
Service DATELINE: MOSCOW, July 6 BODY: Russia today
proposed that the five long-established nuclear powers start
multilateral talks aimed at eliminating 10,000 warheads in
20) Chicago Tribune July 8, 2001 NATIONAL EDITION News; Pg. 11;
ZONE: MW HEADLINE: Bush wants nuclear-test treaty to die
BYLINE: Reuters. DATELINE: KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine BODY: White
House officials said Saturday that President Bush, who has
often criticized a global nuclear test ban treaty, hopes
the treaty will die in the Senate where it was rejected two
21) Agence France Presse July 7, 2001, HEADLINE: Pentagon to
conduct missile-interception test on July 14 DATELINE:
WASHINGTON, July 6 BODY: The Pentagon will conduct a
missile-interception test over the Pacific Ocean on July
14, under an ongoing program aimed at eventually developing
an antiballistic missile defense system, the Defense
NUCLEAR POWER
22) Anti-nuclear tour starts in Sydney today SYDNEY, July 7 AAP
- Environmental and student groups will today embark on a
10-day radioactive tour starting in Sydney to oppose
nuclear dumping. After a protest picnic outside the gates
of the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor at lunchtime today,
the tour will visit Port Augusta and Woomera, in South
23) Kariwa, Tokyo residents discuss nuclear power TOKYO, Jul
07, 2001 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- Residents of the village of
Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture met Saturday with residents of
the Tokyo metropolitan area to discuss nuclear power as an
energy source in the wake of the village's rejection of a
plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in a
24) Press Association July 8, 2001, HEADLINE: INSPECTORS PROBE
NUCLEAR FUEL RODS 'FALL' BYLINE: Russell Fallis, PA News
BODY: Safety inspectors are investigating an incident at a
nuclear power station in which 24 fuel rods fell to the
floor during a routine refuelling operation, it emerged
today. British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL), operators of the
25) Los Angeles Times July 8, 2001 Home Edition Opinion; Part
M; Page 1; Op Ed Desk HEADLINE: The Nuclear Option
Revisited; As fossil fuels become scarcer, we must look to
the atom's great reservoirs of energy. BYLINE: WILLIAM
TUCKER, Wxilliam Tucker is the author of "Progress and
Privilege: America, in the Age of Environmentalism."
OCEANS
26) Call for fishing ban in Great Australian Bight Marine Park
ADELAIDE, July 8 AAP - The Whale and Dolphin Conservation
Society today called for an immediate ban on fishing in the
Great Australian Bight Marine Park following the death of a
southern right whale yesterday. After more than a week
entangled in a fishing net, the whale was attacked by
27) Japan Economic Newswire July 7, 2001, HEADLINE: More than
250 endangered turtles saved from slaughterhouse DATELINE:
JAKARTA, July 7 Kyodo BODY: Indonesian police in the resort
island of Bali have saved at least 265 endangered green
turtles from slaughter, the Jakarta Post said Saturday. The
newspaper said that during an operation launched Tuesday
28) The Ottawa Citizen July 7, 2001 EDITION Final News PAGE A1
/ FRONT Super ships threaten endangered right whale: New
generation of huge, rapid vessels leave whales little hope
of escape: expert Kate Jaimet Huge new cargo ships speeding
across the Atlantic Ocean will add an extra threat to the
world's most critically endangered large whale species, an
TOXICS
29) The Times of India July 7, 2001 HEADLINE: WITH THAT FRUIT
BITE, YOU COULD BE LICKING PESTICIDE BYLINE: CHANDRIKA MAGO
BODY: BANGALORE: Sometimes, there may be just no escape.
You could be taking in harmful pesticides each time you
eat fruits and vegetables. In fact, you probably are.
Samples picked up in and around Bangalore, of vegetables
30) Deutsche Presse-Agentur July 8, 2001, HEADLINE: NEWS
FEATURE: In dioxin-stricken Seveso, a forest has grown
DATELINE: Seveso, Italy BODY: Strolling its peaceful paths,
surrounded by oaks, pines, maples and elms, it would appear
Mother Nature has always reigned undisturbed over the Bosco
delle Querce. But only a solitary poplar tree in the Seveso
31) Asahi News Service July 7, 2001 HEADLINE: ENVIRONMENTAL
HORMONES STRIKE OFFSHORE DATELINE: TOKYO BODY: The ocean is
not big enough to prevent estrogen-like pollutants from
having an increasing effect on coastal fish, giving them an
abnormal level of female attributes, researchers say. The
prevalence of the feminized fish is greater in waters near
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