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[News-headlines] Global News Headlines - March 19
URGENT ACTION ALERT
Let the voices of the WORLD be heard
The leaders of the most powerful nations on Earth have failed us. The world stands on the brink of war. The UN has one last chance to stand up for peace.
Please, urgently, write to your Ambassador at the United Nations and ask that the Uniting for Peace resolution be invoked to stop this war.
http://act.greenpeace.org/aas/e?a=ufp&s=amb_s
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NEWSLINK: Environmental News Headlines
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Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Greenbase Unit
Greenpeace International
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An overview of the environmental news coverage of the day
Note: Internet URL links may word-wrap over several lines. Please see
the note at the end of this message.
CLIMATE CHANGE
1) ABC News Online, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, First
Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2003. 00:23:13 (AEDT); Russia
set to sign Kyoto Protocol Labor's Environment Spokesman,
Kelvin Thompson, says he has met the Russian ambassador in
Canberra to show Labor's support for Russian plans to
ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Mr Thompson says the ambassador...
Read the article:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s811071.htm
(Greenpeace)
2) Salon.com March 19, 2003 Feature, 1534 words HEADLINE:
Fill 'er up with Krispy Kreme BYLINE: By Katharine
Mieszkowski HIGHLIGHT: Biodiesel fuel costs more than
gasoline and can smell kind of funny. But recycling kitchen
grease beats war in the Mideast, doesn't it? BODY: Jeffrey
Miottel, 36, of San Rafael, Calif., drives a cream-colored,...
Read the article:
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/19/biodiesel/print.html
3) Washington Post Online, USA, Wednesday, March 19, 2003;
3:56 PM; Senate Rejects Drilling in Alaska Refuge By Helen
Dewar Washington Post Staff Writer The
Republican-controlled Senate narrowly rejected President
Bush's proposal to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling today as his GOP allies...
Read the article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54522-2003Mar19.html
4) AP via New Jersey Online, 3/19/03 2:05 PM; Study suggests
greenhouse gases affect atmospheric pressure By WILLIAM
McCALL The Associated Press Greenhouse gas increases
already blamed for global warming also may be shifting wind
and rainfall patterns in the Northern Hemisphere by
changing the atmospheric pressure, according to a new study....
Read the article:
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0643_BC_Climate-Pressure&&news&newsflash-national
FORESTS
5) The Associated Press March 18, 2003, Haiti's coffin makers
struggle to make a living while forests disappear,
environmental woes worsen BYLINE: By PAISLEY DODDS,
Associated Press Writer DATELINE: FORET DES PINS, Haiti
BODY: In a musty shop near the capital's dilapidated
cemetery, Josue Termidor takes a rasp, gently sanding a...
6) The Star (Malaysia) March 19, 2003; NORTH AMERICA AND
EUROPE BARRING IMPORTS OF TIMBER BODY: NORTH America and
many developed countries in Europe are prohibiting the
imports of tropical timber under the pretext of promoting
good forest management and preventing illegal logging,
according to Sarawak Timber Association chairman Datuk Leo...
7) UN Wire Online, 19/03/2003; PERU: World Bank Approves $14.8
Million GEF Biodiversity Project The World Bank has
approved the implementation of a Peru biodiversity project
financed in part with a $14.8 million grant from the Global
Environment Facility , the bank announced yesterday. The
project is also getting $2.5...
8) Bangkok Post March 19, 2003; PROTEST OVER PLANT, ANIMAL
NAMES BILL BYLINE: Kultida Samabuddhi BODY: About 100 rice
farmers from northeastern provinces rallied in front of the
United States embassy yesterday, calling on its government
to stop interfering in the drafting of Thailand's
Geographical Indication Protection Bill. A petition was...
9) Los Angeles Times March 19, 2003 Home Edition California
Metro; Part 2; Page 6; Metro Desk; THE STATE; U.S. Plan
Touts More Logging to Foil Fires; Forest Service proposal
would cut back timber and wildlife protections ushered in
by Clinton. BYLINE: Eric Bailey, Times Staff Writer
DATELINE: SACRAMENTO BODY: Arguing that more logging is...
Read the article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-forest19mar19,1,4068934.story
10) XINHUA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE HEADLINE: Zambia's forests
under threat DATELINE: LUSAKA, March 19 BODY: Zambia's 7.4
million hectares of forests could be wiped out in a decade
if the current depletion rate of 850,000 hectares annually
continued, the Zambia Daily Mail reported Wednesday. To
avert the situation, the Zambian government plans to set up...
MILITARY
11) Washington Post Online, USA, Wednesday, March 19, 2003;
4:25 PM; Impending War Threatens Gulf Environment Experts
Say Damage to Ecosystem Could Eclipse 1990-1991 Gulf War By
Eric Pianin Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March
19, 2003; 4:25 PM Experts warned this week that a war in
Iraq will cause "massive and possibly irreversible"...
Read the article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54640-2003Mar19.html
(Greenpeace)
12) Financial Times Online, UK, Published: March 19 2003 12:45
| Last Updated: March 19 2003 12:45; Still missing: how
many Iraqis died in 1991 Gulf war? By Stephen Fidler As
worries mount about casualties in the looming war, the
question of how many Iraqis died in the 1991 campaign is
still the subject of bitter debate. Estimates vary from as...
Read the article:
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1045511841452&p=1012571727172
(Greenpeace)
13) The Guardian Online, UK, 4.15pm update Wednesday March 19,
2003; Worldwide peace protests stepped up Staff and agencies
[Anti-war protesters outside the US embassy in Manila]
Anti-war protesters outside the US embassy in Manila
Thousands of people around the world, from schoolchildren
to trade unionists, took to the streets today to vent their...
Read the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,917455,00.html
14) Los Angeles Times March 19, 2003 Home Edition California
Metro; Part 2; Page 1; Metro Desk; SHOWDOWN WITH IRAQ;
Military Seeks an Exemption of Its Own; Bases want to be
excused from compliance with environmental laws. BYLINE:
Julie Cart, Times Staff Writer BODY: Saying military
readiness is at stake, the Pentagon is asking Congress to...
Read the article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-war-exempt19mar19,1,1684396.story
15) The Boston Globe March 19, 2003, THIRD EDITION
NATIONAL/FOREIGN; Pg. A3; GULF WAR AILMENTS STILL AN ENEMY
EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS REMAIN ELUSIVE, WITH FORECASTS OF NEW
CASES BYLINE: By Alice Dembner, Globe Staff BODY: The US
troops converging on Iraq face not only the risk of death
but also the risk of chronic illnesses similar to those...
Read the article:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/078/nation/Gulf_War_ailments_still_an_enemy+.shtml
(Greenpeace)
16) The Age (Melbourne) March 20, 2003 News; Pg. 4, 370
words; PM Given Anti-war Message BYLINE: Meaghan Shaw BODY:
Canberra -- Greenpeace activists tried to place Prime
Minister John Howard under "house arrest" yesterday in a
dawn anti-war protest at the Lodge in Canberra. Thirteen
protesters dressed as United Nations personnel chained...
Read the article:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/19/1047749829754.html
17) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Bush prepares to give order
for war BYLINE: OLIVIER KNOX DATELINE: WASHINGTON, March 19
BODY: As US-led forces massed on Iraq's borders in the final
hours of a countdown to war, President George W. Bush
formally declared diplomacy dead Wednesday amid surging US
support for military action. Bush notified Congress that...
(Greenpeace)
18) The Bangkok Post Online, Thailand, 20/03/2003; Australia
ups defence shield Greenpeace exposes vulnerability of PM
Australia stepped up security at landmarks, military bases
and embassies yesterday as the government warned a war in
Iraq could start within 24 hours. While Prime Minister John
Howard denied his commitment of troops to an Iraq war had...
Read the article:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/20Mar2003_news34.html
(Greenpeace)
19) Reuters, Wed March 19, 2003 05:31 PM ET; Arrests at
Anti-War Protest at White House By Niala Boodhoo WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - More than two dozen people were arrested as
hundreds protested outside the White House on Wednesday
against looming war with Iraq. "Four more hours!" called
one man as the crowd of about 250 people around Lafayette...
Read the article:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PCZXSQ0L5DZOSCRBAE0CFEY?type=topNews&storyID=2410128
20) 03/19 Iraq war illegal but trial unlikely - lawyers By
Emma Thomasson BERLIN (Reuters) - President Bush and his
allies are unlikely to face trial for war crimes although
many nations and legal experts say a strike on Iraq without
an explicit U.N. mandate breaches international law. While
judicial means to enforce international law are limited,...
21) The Age Online, Australia, March 19 2003; Coa lition of
the not-so-willing US President George W Bush's "coalition
of the willing," which stretches from Albania to Australia,
is a conflicted alliance: leaders want to help disarm
Saddam Hussein by force, but many of their people want no
part of it. As war loomed with Saddam's rejection of a Bush...
Read the article:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/19/1047749813091.html
22) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Russia pledges to ratify US
nuclear treaty despite delay in vote DATELINE: MOSCOW,
March 19 BODY: Russia is committed to a major nuclear
disarmament treaty with the United States despite Russian
lawmakers' move to delay ratification in protest at the
impending US attack on Iraq, the foreign ministry said...
NUCLEAR POWER
23) AAP NEWSFEED, SA parliament bans nuclear dump DATELINE:
ADELAIDE, March 19 BODY: South Australian MPs today voted
to ban the establishment of a nuclear waste dump in the
state's far north. The Bill, passed by the state's upper
house today, also bans the transportation of nuclear waste
from other states on SA roads. While the federal government...
24) The Press Trust of India March 18, 2003 India all set to
enter Fast Breeder Reactor era India would soon set-up the
first prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) of 500 MW
capacity for power generation at Kalapakkam in south Indian
state of Tamil Nadu which would be added to the Southern
Grid. The country would enter the second stage of power...
25) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Technical glitch shuts down
Russian nuclear reactor DATELINE: MOSCOW, March 19 BODY: A
reactor at Russia's Kola nuclear power plant near the
northern city of Murmansk shut down automatically due to a
technical hitch on Wednesday, the Ria- Novosti news agency
said. The agency quoted a spokesman for the power station as...
OCEANS
(Greenpeace)
26) Associated Press Worldstream March 19, 2003, 137 words;
Greenpeace boards Swedish trawler in fishing protest
DATELINE: STOCKHOLM, Sweden BODY: Greenpeace activists
boarded a Swedish fishing boat in the Baltic Sea Wednesday
to protest the overfishing of cod. The peaceful protest
took place northeast of the Danish island of Bornholm some...
27) The Times (London) March 19, 2003, Home news; 19; Climate
may spell end of line for fishing BYLINE: Anthony Browne
BODY: (Photograph) - A fisherman reels in his catch at
sunrise, but anglers may face a much gloomier future. The
Environmental Agency said yesterday that Britain's
favourite pastime is threatened by global warming (Anthony...
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