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Global News Headlines - May 27
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NEWSLINK: Environmental News Headlines
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Monday, May 27, 2002
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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An overview of the environmental news coverage of the day
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CLIMATE CHANGE
1) South China Morning Post May 27, 2002 News; Pg. 6
HEADLINE: Pollution fears over chemical plant Oil
companies' plan for $ 30 billion project at Daya Bay
triggers air-quality worries BYLINE: Cheung Chi-fai and
Quinton Chan BODY: A plan by two oil giants to build a
petrochemical plant 80km from Hong Kong in southern...
2) Ananova, UK, Story filed: 08:56 Monday 27th May 2002;
Global warming could put Nile crocodile at risk of
extinction Nile crocodiles could face extinction if global
warming turns all their offspring into females. Crocodile
expert Alison Leslie says the sex of baby crocodiles is
determined by the temperature of the soil around the eggs....
Read the article:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_596093.html
3) CNN.com, May 27, 2002 Posted: 9:42 AM EDT (1342 GMT); Key
talks on 'Earth Summit 2' kick off Environmentalists
skeptical of outcome JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) -- The
United Nations on Monday opened a vital meeting in
Indonesia where 6,000 delegates will try to bridge
differences before an August summit that aims to cut...
Read the article:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/05/27/environment.development.reut/index.html
4) Los Angeles Times May 27, 2002 Home Edition California
Metro; Part 2; Page 1; Metro Desk HEADLINE: Resort Balks at
Energy Hub Plan; Mexico: Many voice fear of safety risks,
pollution if natural gas terminal is built in Rosarito
Beach. Firms say informational drive is changing minds.
BYLINE: LOUIS SAHAGUN, TIMES STAFF WRITER DATELINE:...
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000037326may27.story?null
FORESTS
5) Financial Times (London) May 27, 2002, USA Edition 1
INSIDE TRACK; Pg. 8 HEADLINE: Sustainable substitutes for
endangered trees: FORESTRY: Mahogany and ebony have been
ravaged by overharvesting. A solution may lie in persuading
western companies to buy lesser known hardwoods, writes
Sara Silver BYLINE: By SARA SILVER BODY: Harry E.Page, a...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
6) The Australian May 27, 2002, LOCAL; Pg. 3 HEADLINE: States
set own GM-free zones SOURCE: MATP BYLINE: Benjamin Haslem
BODY: CONSUMER confidence in the integrity of foods
marketed as free of genetic modifications has been boosted
by a landmark agreement between the commonwealth and states
that allows the establishment of GM-free agriculture zones....
7) Toronto Star May 27, 2002 Ontario Edition BUSINESS; Pg. C02
HEADLINE: Biotech firms try to cultivate new image BYLINE:
Justin Gillis, Washington Post BODY: The world's largest
agricultural biotechnology companies are setting up
charitable foundations, backing aid for subsistence
farmers, and donating valuable data and patents as part of...
8) The Guardian (London) May 27, 2002 Guardian Home Pages,
Pg. 8; Criticism of Lord Sainsbury's GM firm shareholding
rebuffed BYLINE: Michael White Political editor BODY: The
government yesterday rejected fresh Conservative complaints
about Labour donors mixing politics with their commercial
interests after a tabloid claim that the science minister,...
Read the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,722801,00.html
9) The Observer, UK, Sunday May 26, 2002 The Observer; GM
'could kill off ' organic farms Gaby Hinsliff, chief
political correspondent Organic farming in Britain could be
doomed if the Government approves the cultivation of
genetically modified crops, according to a European Union
report warning that it is 'virtually impossible' to stop...
Read the article:
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,722450,00.html
MILITARY
10) The Guardian (London) May 27, 2002 Guardian Home Pages,
Pg. 4; Rivals compete in deadly race to step up nuclear
arms production BYLINE: Rory McCarthy in Islamabad BODY:
International nuclear experts believe technicians in India
and Pakistan are stepping up the production of
weapons-grade uranium and plutonium as the threat of...
11) The New York Times May 27, 2002, Late Edition - Final
Section A; Page 5; Column 1; Foreign Desk HEADLINE: 12
Million Could Die at Once in an India-Pakistan Nuclear War
BYLINE: THOM SHANKER DATELINE: WASHINGTON, May 26 BODY: An
American intelligence assessment, completed this week as
tensions between India and Pakistan intensified, warns that...
12) Financial Times (London) May 27, 2002, London Edition 1
ASIA-PACIFIC; Pg. 9; Pakistan holds second missile test
KASHMIR CRISIS WORLD LEADERS STEP UP THEIR CALLS FOR
MUSHARRAF AND VAJPAYEE TO PULL BACK FROM MILITARY STAND-OF:
BYLINE: By FARHAN BOKHARI and EDWARD LUCE DATELINE: NEW
DELHI and ISLAMABAD BODY: Pakistan yesterday conducted its...
NUCLEAR POWER
13) Financial Times (London) May 27, 2002, USA Edition 1
LEADER; Pg. 10 HEADLINE: Finnish start BODY: The vote by
Finland's parliament last Friday to build a nuclear plant -
the first inside the European Union for a decade - has given
the nuclear industry a morale boost. It is also a decision
that can be defended on grounds of improving energy...
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http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1021991040144&p=1012571727236
14) Asahi Shimbun May 27, 2002 LENGTH: 726 words HEADLINE:
TIME TO REVIEW THE INSPECTION SYSTEM. BODY: More nuke plant
trouble More troubles have hit the Hamaoka Nuclear Power
Plant of Chubu Electric Power Co. in Shizuoka Prefecture
The latest problem was a leak of radioactive coolant water
detected early Saturday morning in the No. 2 reactor...
Read the article:
http://www.asahi.com/english/op-ed/K2002052700290.html
15) The Dominion (Wellington) May 28, 2002, NEWS Pg. 2
HEADLINE: Anti-nuke ship bill set to sink BODY: THE
Government is expected to kill legislation this week that
would have banned nuclear waste shipments through New
Zealand's exclusive economic zone. The legislation,
introduced by Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons,...
16) The Moscow Times May 27, 2002 No. 2445 HEADLINE: $ 360M
Facility For Spent Fuel BYLINE: The Moscow Times BODY: A $
360 million facility to store spent nuclear fuel will be
built in the closed Siberian city of Zheleznogorsk,
officials said Friday. Pavel Morozov, spokesman for the
city's chemical and metallurgical factory, said work on the...
17) Swedish minister unsure of Barseback closure date By Erik
Brynhildsbakken STOCKHOLM, May 27 (Reuters) - Sweden's
energy minister said on Monday he will keep Sweden's
promise to close the Barseback 2 nuclear reactor as part of
the country's nuclear phase-out, but could not give a firm
deadline. "We reckon that we will close Barseback 2...
OCEANS
18) Environmental Data Interactive Exchange, Edie weekly
summaries 24/05/2002; Baltic Sea wildlife at risk as
illegal oil dumping continues Deliberate and illegal
discharges of oily wastes into the Baltic Sea during 2000
and 2001 was over one hundred times higher than the amount
accidentally released. Increased aerial and satellite...
Read the article:
http://www.edie.net/gf.cfm?L=left_frame.html&R=http://www.edie.net/news/Archive/5557.cfm
TOXICS
(Greenpeace)
19) The Copenhagen Post, Denmark, 26. 5. 2002; Waste dumped
Environmental activist organisation Greenpeace has
threatened to sue waste disposal firm Amager Disposal
Plant, if the company goes ahead with plans to dump 150,000
tons of waste, with 200 tons of lead content, into the
sound between Denmark and Sweden. In a letter of complaint...
Read the article:
http://cphpost.periskop.dk/default.asp?id=21750
20) SwissInfo, Swiss Radio International, 27.05.2002 17:01,
Reuters; Eco-crooks outwitting law agencies -experts By
Jeremy Lovell LONDON (Reuters) - International
environmental criminals are outpacing slow-moving
enforcement agencies as they line their pockets by
plundering the planet, according to ecological experts....
Read the article:
http://www2.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&eid=1167885
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