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[News-headlines] Global News Headlines - April 9
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NEWSLINK: Environmental News Headlines
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Wednesday, April 9, 2003
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) Lloyd's List April 9, 2003 Pg. 5; U for unique as U31
heads for sea trials BODY: By Hugh O'Mahony MARINE
propulsion using fossil fuel-free technology has taken a
major step forward, with the maiden voyage of the first
submarine to be driven by fuel cells. Launched for sea
trials in the Baltic this week, U31 is the first of four...
2) Financial Times (London) April 9, 2003, London Edition 1
NATIONAL NEWS; Pg. 11; Green projects 'under threat from
energy trading proposals' BYLINE: By ANDREW TAYLOR BODY:
Plans to extend controver-sial new electricity trading
arrangements to Scotland could make it more difficult to
meet government climate change targets, MPs warned...
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http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=030409001151&query=climate+change&vsc_appId=totalSearch&state=Form
3) The Guardian (London) April 9, 2003 Guardian Society
Pages, Pg. 9; Blots on the landscape: Communities alarmed
over coalbed methane drilling BYLINE: Pete Bowler BODY:
Britain's countryside is facing the threat posed by
thousands of wellheads being drilled into coal seams to
extract gas trapped inside. Dozens of licences to drill...
4) The New York Times April 9, 2003, Late Edition - Final
Section A; Page 14; Column 5; National Desk; 2 Companies
Said to Agree To Settle Suits on Emissions BYLINE: By
JENNIFER 8. LEE DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 8 BODY: Alcoa
and Archer Daniels Midland have agreed to settle federal
air pollution complaints by upgrading smelters and other...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/politics/09ENVI.html?ex=1050552000&en=0c1370b4b8ec6c33&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER
5) The Chicago Sun-Times Online, USA, April 9, 2003; Summer in
the city could become more sweltering BY GARY WISBY
ENVIRONMENT REPORTER Climate change in Illinois could lead
to a 7-to-13-degree increase in winter and a 9-to-18-degree
jump in summer by the end of this century, says a study
released Tuesday. "In three decades, summer in Illinois may...
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-warm09.html
6) ScienceDaily.com, Date: 2003-04-09, Source: Queen's
University; 50 Arctic Lakes Show Dramatic Effects Of
Climate Warming; 'Bellwether' Of What's To Come Farther
South, Say Queen's Researchers Dramatic clues to North
American climate change have been discovered by a team of
Queen's University scientists in the bottom of 50 Arctic...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/04/030409074851.htm
FORESTS
7) TASS HEADLINE: 30 forest fires rage in Russia's Far East
Wednesday. BYLINE: By Boris Savelyev DATELINE: KHABAROVSK,
April 9 BODY: Eighteen new forests fires broke out in
Russia's Far East over the past 24 hours, ravaging 895
hectares of forest. Thirty forest fires were spotted as of
Wednesday morning. Forest fires inflict the greatest damage...
8) BBC Online, Science & Nature, Wednesday, 9 April, 2003,
15:21 GMT 16:21 UK; Fears grow for rare antelope By Alex
Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent Indian
officials have made what is thought to be the largest-ever
seizure of wool from the highly endangered Tibetan antelope.
PANTHOLOPS HODGSONII Tibetan antelope also called chiru...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2931857.stm
MILITARY
9) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Congressman calls for
creation of US "Peace Department" DATELINE: WASHINGTON,
April 8 BODY: A US congressman and anti-war activist on
Tuesday revived his proposal for the creation of a "US
Department of Peace" to be headed by a cabinet-level
official on a par with the secretary of state or secretary...
10) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: UN rights chief "deeply
disturbed" by civilian casualties in Iraq DATELINE: GENEVA,
April 9 BODY: The UN human rights chief, Sergio Vieira de
Mello, said on Wednesday that he was "deeply disturbed" by
the growing number of casualties among civilians and
journalists during the war in Iraq. "There are inescapable...
11) Financial Times (London) April 9, 2003, London Edition 2
WAR IN IRAQ MILITARY; Pg. 2; US-backed militia terrorises
town PEACEKEEPING: BYLINE: By CHARLES CLOVER DATELINE: NAJAF
BODY: Hay Al Ansar, on the outskirts of Najaf in Iraq, was
glad to be rid of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party government,
when the city was seized by US forces last week. But they...
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http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1048313570322&p=1012571727088
12) The Independent (London) April 9, 2003, NEWS; Pg. 4; THE
IRAQ CONFLICT: IS THERE SOME ELEMENT IN THE US MILITARY
THAT WANTS TO TAKE OUT JOURNALISTS?; MEDIA BYLINE: ROBERT
FISK IN BAGHDAD HIGHLIGHT: Rescuers carry one of the
injured journalists from the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad
Jerome Sessini/Corbis Sygma; Sasha Protsjuk of Reuters,...
13) The New York Times April 9, 2003, Late Edition - Final
Section B; Page 11; Column 1; Foreign Desk; A NATION AT
WAR: WELLS OF WEALTH; Who'll Control Iraq's Oil? Tangled
Questions Abound BYLINE: By FELICITY BARRINGER and NEELA
BANERJEE DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS, April 8 BODY: As allied
armies capture Iraq's centers of power, the market is...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09OIL.html?ex=1050552000&en=0dc352d913c1ecf9&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER
(Greenpeace)
14) NPR Online, USA, 08/04/2003; Maintaining a Vigil at 'Camp
Peace' For Various Reasons, Berlin Antiwar Protesters Keep
Going [Photo caption: [Protesters Dorthea Kaprulat and Hans
Hähnle] Dorthea Kaprulat, left, and Hans Hähnle take their
antiwar message as close as they can to the U.S. Embassy.
Credit: Photos by Emily Harris, NPR News] [Church bell, on...
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http://www.npr.org/news/specials/iraq2003/harris_peace_030408.html
(Greenpeace)
15) Hobart Mercury (Australia) April 9, 2003 141 words; Media
union scolds Howard SOURCE: AAP BODY: THE Australian
journalists' union has called on news media to ignore
"inappropriate" pressure from the Howard Government to
downplay anti-war protests. Prime Minister John Howard
yesterday urged the media to downgrade their coverage of...
16) CNN.com, Wednesday, April 9, 2003 Posted: 0621 GMT ( 2:21
PM HKT); Democrats call Halliburton probe By CNN White
House Correspondent Dana Bash WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two
senior congressional Democrats called Tuesday for an
investigation into whether the company Vice President Dick
Cheney once headed has received special treatment in...
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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/04/09/sprj.irq.halliburton/index.html
(Greenpeace)
17) Agence France Presse, 294 words HEADLINE: Greenpeace,
NGOs urge negotiated settlement of North Korea crisis
DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS, April 9 BODY: The environmental
lobby group Greenpeace and 37 other non-government
organisations called Wednesday on the United Nations to
support a negotiated settlement of the current US-North...
18) The Washington Post April 09, 2003, Final Edition A
SECTION; Pg. A18; Hill Told U.S. Favors More Nonnuclear
Weapons BYLINE: Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer
BODY: The head of the U.S. Strategic Command, which
controls the nation's nuclear weapons delivery systems,
told Congress yesterday that future global strike plans...
19) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: US to bolster its nuclear
test readiness DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 9 BODY: The
United States has decided to dramatically bolster its
readiness for conducting underground nuclear tests in order
to ensure the reliability of its nuclear deterrent force, a
senior administration official has announced. Linton...
NUCLEAR POWER
20) Institute for War & Peace Reporting Online, 08/04/2003;
Tajik Chernobyl Victims Still Waiting A draft law
addressing the problems of Tajik victims of the Chernobyl
disaster has been delayed because of lack of funds. By
Zafar Abdullaev in Dushanbe (RCA No. 197, 8-Apr-03) Almost
20 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe, Tajik victims are...
Read the article:
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/rca/rca_200303_197_2_eng.txt
21) New Scientist Online, UK, 19:00 09 April 03; Sex life of
worms reveals Chernobyl effect Exclusive from New Scientist
Print Edition Worms contaminated by radioactivity from the
Chernobyl nuclear accident have started having sex with
each other instead of on their own. According to Ukrainian
scientists, they may have changed their sexual behaviour to...
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993603
OCEANS
22) Lloyd's List April 9, 2003 News; Pg. 3; Spanish spill
sightings raise alarmBy Brian Reyes in GibraltarMIXED
reports about new oil spills sighted in the Atlantic off
northwest Spain have raised fears that the Galician
coastline could be facing a new wave of pollution from the
wreck of the Prestige. BODY: On Sunday, a Spanish aircraft...
TOXICS
(Greenpeace)
23) ABS-CBN News Online, Wednesday, April 9, 2003 10:6:0 p.m;
[Excerpt Follows] * Von Hernandez of Greenpeace and the
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) has
been chosen as Asia winner for the 2003 Goldman
Environmental Prize, according to Manny Calonzo of the GAIA
secretariat. Hernandez is the first Filipino to receive the...
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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/abs_news_body.asp?section=Opinion&oid=20303
X-OTHER-X
(Greenpeace)
24) The Sydney Morning Herald Online, Australia, April 10
2003; Telstra, Caltex say no but will be rated by survey
anyway Telstra and Caltex Australia have refused to
co-operate with a new social responsibility survey of the
nation's biggest companies. Reputation rating firm RepuTex
said the refusals were in contrast to about 60 per cent of...
Read the article:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/09/1049567738438.html
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