Global News Headlines - July 14

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Sunday, July 14, 2002
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CLIMATE CHANGE

1) Canada.com, July 14, 2002 Prairie cities, farmlands 
normally verdant left gasping by drought BOB WEBER Canadian 
Press Sunday, July 14, 2002 WAINWRIGHT, Alta. (CP) - It's 
an anniversary Jay Fenton won't be celebrating. On July 21, 
it'll be a year since his ranch southwest of Edmonton has 
seen any significant rain. "Even the weeds won't grow," he...

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 http://www.canada.com/hamilton/story.asp?id={90CC9961-103B-4F62-86F9-4855BEB71601}


2) Independent on Sunday (London) July 14, 2002, TITLE PAGE; 
Pg. 1 PENGUINS VOTE WITH THEIR FLIPPERS BYLINE: Mark Rowe 
BODY: Climate change may be forcing the rockhopper penguin, 
a symbol of the Falkland Islands, to make a political 
statement of its own by migrating to Argentinian territory. 
Twenty years after the end of the Falklands conflict,...


3) The New York Times July 14, 2002, Late Edition - Final 
Section 1; Page 3; Column 1; Foreign Desk Indonesia's 
Guerrilla War Puts Exxon Under Siege BYLINE:  By JANE PERLEZ
DATELINE: LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia BODY: The silvery pipes 
that extract hundreds of millions of dollars in natural gas 
a year for Exxon Mobil glint in the tropical sun here, a...


4) The Independent (London) July 13, 2002, First Edition; 
FOREIGN NEWS; Pg. 14 WOMEN OF NIGERIA'S DELTA HOLD 700 OIL 
WORKERS HOSTAGE AS PROTESTS SPREAD BYLINE: D'arcy Doran In 
Escravos, Nigeria HIGHLIGHT: The people of the Niger river 
delta live in poverty despite the huge reserves of oil in 
the region; Members of the Ogoni tribe won a victory...


(Greenpeace)
5) Philippine Daily Inquirer July 14, 2002 SECTION: 2 956 
words DEATH TOLL RISES AS RAINS DON'T STOP BYLINE: TJ 
Burgonio, Gerald G. Lacuarta and Leila Salaverria BODY: 
MONSOON rains, exacerbated by typhoon "Inday," pounded 
metropolitan Manila and other parts of the country 
yesterday, bringing the death toll from rains and floods in...


6) Independent on Sunday (London) July 14, 2002, NEWS; Pg. 2 
UK TO LEAD WORLD IN CUTTING EMISSIONS BYLINE: Severin 
Carrell And Geoffrey Lean BODY: Ministers will this month 
announce the world's most radical programme for turning the 
streets over to green cars. The new strategy - which will 
go a long way towards meeting one of the key aims of The...


FORESTS

7) FEATURE-Midnight floods avenge tree choppers in panda home 
By Jonathan Ansfield FOPING, China, July 14 (Reuters) - 
When their hardest rain in centuries swallowed villages 
whole and left cars tangled in tree vines, flashflood 
victims in Foping County began searching for answers to the 
wrath the heavens unleashed. After all, this lush central...


8) The Guardian (London) July 13, 2002 Guardian Foreign 
Pages, Pg. 20 Tusks of 600 elephants make up record haul of 
smuggled ivory BYLINE: James Astill in Nairobi BODY: 
Customs officers in Singapore have seized more than six 
tonnes of ivory bound for Japan from Zambia: more than 
double the previous biggest haul of illegal ivory since a...


GENETIC ENGINEERING

(Greenpeace)
9) Perth Sunday Times July 14, 2002, 482 words GE-whiz factor
BODY: ABOUT 70 per cent of the refined foods on our 
supermarket shelves contains one or more genetically 
engineered ingredients. This is because many processed 
foods contain imported ingredients and almost all the 
imported soy bean, corn, canola oil and cottonseed oil are...


10) Independent on Sunday (London) July 14, 2002, FOREIGN 
NEWS; Pg. 14 NEW ZEALAND PM ACCUSED OF GM COVER-UP BYLINE: 
Kathy Marks In Sydney Damaging allegations: Prime Minister 
Helen Clark BODY: Allegations that New Zealand's Labour 
government covered up the illegal release of a large batch 
of genetically modified sweetcorn are threatening to harm...


MILITARY

11) The New York Times July 13, 2002, Late Edition - Final 
Section A; Page 4; Column 1; Foreign Desk New Pentagon 
Report Sees Rapid Buildup by China BYLINE:  By JAMES DAO 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, July 12 BODY: China is rapidly 
modernizing its military with the goal of countering 
American power in the Pacific and pressing Taiwan to accept...


12) Press Association July 14, 2002, METEOR BLAST COULD 
TRIGGER NUCLEAR EXCHANGE BYLINE: John von Radowitz, Science 
Correspondent, PA News BODY: A small asteroid could 
accidentally trigger a nuclear war if it exploded over one 
of the world's trouble hot spots, experts have warned. 
Scientists and military chiefs are calling for action to...


NUCLEAR POWER

(Greenpeace)
13) The Age, Australia, 13.7.2002 Boy, 3, in protest at 
nuclear cargo July 14 2002 A flotilla of yachts, one of 
which has a three-year-old boy on board, is forming a 
symbolic chain across a stretch of the South Pacific today, 
in protest at the shipment of nuclear fuel on the edge of 
Australian waters. Three yachts from NSW, six from New...

Read the article: 
 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/13/1026185124430.html


14) TASS July 13, 2002, UNEP head against nuclear power plants 
closure in Germany BYLINE: By Andrei Urban DATELINE: 
BERLIN, July 13 BODY: The head of the U.N. Environment 
Programme (UNEP), Klaus Tepfer, spoke against the closure 
of nuclear power plants in Germany. He told journalists on 
Saturday that if German industry fully withdrew from the...


(Greenpeace)
15) ABC News Online, Australia, 13.7.2002 Greenpeace spies 
nuclear ships in exclusion zone The Micronesian Government 
has expressed its concern about reports a shipment of 
nuclear waste has entered its waters. Staff of environment 
group Greenpeace spotted the incursion just before nine 
o'clock this morning as they tracked the two British ships...

Read the article: 
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2002/07/item20020713130709_1.htm


16) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 14, 2002, Pg. 01 BNFL loses 
pounds 2bn after nuclear storage write-down BYLINE: BY MARY 
FAGAN BODY: BRITISH Nuclear Fuels, the state-owned nuclear 
group, will this week unveil a colossal loss of more than 
pounds 2bn for last year, after charges linked to nuclear 
waste storage and the early closure of two Magnox...


17) Chicago Tribune July 14, 2002 CHICAGOLAND FINAL EDITION 
News; Pg. 1; ZONE: C Illinois braces for surge of nuclear 
waste traffic BYLINE: By Julie Deardorff, Tribune staff 
reporter. BODY: As the federal government moves closer to 
approving Yucca Mountain as the graveyard for spent fuel 
from nuclear power plants, Illinois and other states must...


OCEANS

18) Courier Mail July 13, 2002, NEWS; Pg. 6 Navy hauls in 
illegal fishermen BYLINE: Robert Reid, Matthew Franklin 
BODY: THE Royal Australian Navy has caught three Indonesian 
fishing boats illegally operating inside Commonwealth 
waters off north Queensland. HMAS Gladstone caught two 
shark fishing vessels on Thursday night at Carpentaria...


19) Los Angeles Times July 13, 2002  Home Edition California 
Metro; Part 2; Page 2; Metro Desk OUT THERE; Wardens' Fast 
'Cats' Aim to Net Poachers; A fleet of new catamarans is 
Fish and Game's answer to the challenge of patrolling the 
open ocean. BYLINE: KENNETH R. WEISS, TIMES STAFF WRITER 
BODY: Lt. John Suchil sets a course for the Swordfish, a...


TOXICS

20) The New York Times July 14, 2002, Late Edition - Final 
Section 1; Page 1; Column 2; Foreign Desk Bangladeshis 
Sipping Arsenic As Plan for Safe Water Stalls BYLINE:  By 
BARRY BEARAK DATELINE: CHOTOBINAR CHAP, Bangladesh BODY: 
The arsenic, a slow, sadistic killer, has just about 
finished its work on Fazila Khatun. She teeters now. The...


21) The International Herald Tribune July 13, 2002 NEWS; Pg. 1 
A recycler fears trashing of its monopoly ; Germany's king 
of the heap BYLINE: John Schmid SOURCE: International 
Herald Tribune DATELINE: FRANKFURT: BODY: As societies 
struggle with the mountains of garbage they produce, 
Germany looks like an environmentalist's promised land. A...


22) The Statesman (India) July 14, 2002 'UNJUST' CBI DRAWS 
BHOPAL VICTIMS' FLAK BODY: STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE BHOPAL, 
July 13. - The victims of the Bhopal gas disaster today 
demonstrated here to protest against CBI's bid to push for 
dilution of criminal charges against Mr Warren Anderson, 
the prime accused in the disaster. Mr Anderson was the...


23) The Washington Post July 13, 2002, Final Edition A 
SECTION; Pg. A01 EPA Mulls New Water Cleanup Rule BYLINE: 
Michael Grunwald, Washington Post Staff Writer BODY: The 
Bush administration is considering a plan to reduce federal 
oversight of a key Clean Water Act anti-pollution program 
and instead "trust states" to clean up more than 20,000...


24) The New York Times July 14, 2002, Late Edition - Final 
Section 4; Page 14; Column 1; Editorial Desk Editorial 
Observer; Black and White Bird Turns Humans Green BYLINE: 
 By ELEANOR RANDOLPH DATELINE: ADIRONDACK STATE PARK, N.Y. 
 BODY: Some kinds of wildlife inspire more human support 
than others. Imperiled suckerfish, woodpeckers and...


25) The New York Times July 13, 2002, Late Edition - Final 
Section A; Page 10; Column 1; Editorial Desk Trouble With 
Trash BODY: New York City's ubiquitous trash -- 11,000 tons 
of it daily from residences alone -- has traveled to 
Pennsylvania and Virginia, and there's even talk of sending 
it to a Caribbean island. It is seeing more of the world...


26) Reuters via www.planetark.org Cosmetics full of suspect 
chemicals, group says USA: July 12, 2002 WASHINGTON - 
Cosmetics ranging from perfume to hair gel contain 
chemicals shown to cause birth defects in animals, a group 
that lobbies on health issues said. It listed 52 products 
that contain phthalates, which are used to make fragrances...


27) Agence France Presse July 14, 2002 Vietnam hopes US will 
acknowledge Agent Orange legacy DATELINE: HANOI, July 14 
BODY: Vietnam said Sunday it hoped a conference in Sweden 
later this month on the impact of chemical weapons used 
during the Vietnam War will force the United States to 
acknowledge responsibility for a legacy of contamination and...


X-OTHER-X

28) Press Association July 14, 2002, CUSTOMS MEN FIND 
CROCODILES IN AIRCRAFT CARGO HOLD BYLINE: Sherna Noah, PA 
News BODY: Ten crocodiles have been discovered in the cargo 
hold of a plane at Heathrow, a Customs and Excise spokesman 
said today. The five-foot-long African Dwarf Crocodiles, 
which are protected species, were found alive and well on a...


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