August 2000
Day-to-day headlines on the following subjects : Atmosphere, Energy, Forest, Genetic Engineering, Military, Nuclear Power, Oceans, Toxics. News are collected by Greenpeace International. Full stories can not be provided for copyright reasons. read other months news - back to jerome.net

 

Tuesday, August 29, 2000

1) Agence France Presse - Drastic depletion of ozone layer over Antarctica: UN - GENEVA, Aug 29 - Satellites have recorded a dramatic thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica over the past two weeks, a United Nations agency reported Tuesday. "The latest satellite observations in the sunlit portion of the Antarctica

2) WRAP-Online carbon trading market set for September trial - Online carbon trading market set for September trial !!BRISBANE, Aug 29 AAP - Queensland industry leaders will be given a chance to experience the future of environmental management first hand with the launch of an online carbon trading market simulation in October. A trial of the

4) Agence France Presse - Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest threatened by global warming: experts - DHAKA, Aug 29 - The world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans, in southern Bangladesh faces the threat of destruction because of global warming, a report published Tuesday said. "A possible 45 centimeters (18 inches) rise

6) 08/29 0925 Eco-friendly bandit foxes police in Indian jungles LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - India has been transfixed for weeks by a fierce bandit notorious for poaching elephants and smuggling sandalwood, but another equally ruthless outlaw is making news by protecting the environment. Shiv Kumar, a local Robin Hood who has eluded

9) Los Angeles Times August 29, 2000, Home Edition - A; Part 1; Page 4; Foreign Desk - 944 words - ENVIRONMENTALIST IS CONVICTED IN MEXICO; COURTS: A PEASANT FARMER WHO FOUGHT DEFORESTATION IS FOUND GUILTY OF DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES, BUT RIGHTS GROUPS SAY THE CASE IS A SHAM. - JAMES F. SMITH, TIMES STAFF WRITER -

11) Agence France Presse - Gene engineers meet rising public suspicion - PARIS, Aug 29 - Public support for biotechnology is declining, as more and more people associate the science with human cloning or laboratory-engineered food, according to surveys conducted in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States. A US survey

15) The New York Times August 29, 2000, Late Edition - Final - A; Page 1; Column 3; Foreign Desk - U.S. Spy Sub Said to Record Torpedo Blast Aboard Kursk - By STEVEN LEE MYERS and CHRISTOPHER DREW - WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 - Six days after something went dreadfully wrong with the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk,

16) WSJ(8/29): Lockheed Martin Corp. Faces Record Fine Of $1 Mln By John Fialka Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department proposed a record $1 million fine against a Lockheed Martin Corp. unit for chronic safety violations at a nuclear weapons facility it operates at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The agency cited the company,

17) AP Worldstream August 29, 2000 - Angry Australia to restrict U.N. access - ALAN THORNHILL - CANBERRA, Australia - Stung by criticism over its treatment of Aborigines and other issues, the Australian government said Tuesday it will restrict visits by U.N. human rights inspectors and urged an overhaul of the

27) AP Worldstream August 29, 2000 - South African conservationists in bid to save entangled whale - MIKE COHEN - CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Conservationists have mounted a search and rescue operation to save a whale sighted off South Africa's southern coast a week ago entangled in fishing rope and several buoys.

28) 08/28 Judge Dismisses Bhopal Victims' Suit Vs Union Carbide >UK NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit in which victims of the Bhopal, India, chemical disaster accused Union Carbide Corp. (UK) of violating international laws by dodging criminal prosecution in India. The suit, which sought class-action status, was filed last

Wednesday, August 30, 2000

1) The Associated Press. August 30, 2000, - 137 words - High tide submerges island village in southeast Bangladesh - CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh - Nearly 10,000 people rushed to cyclone shelters Wednesday when an unusually high tide submerged their island village off the Bangladesh coast for nearly three hours, officials said. At

2) Global warming a threat to plants, wildlife - report By Allan Dowd VANCOUVER, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The Earth's climate is warming so rapidly that many species of wildlife and plants cannot survive the rising mercury and will be wiped out, an environmental report warned on Wednesday. Species loss could be as high as 20 percent in sensitive

3) Africa News August 30, 2000 - NEWS, DOCUMENTS & COMMENTARY - 215 words - Nigeria; Oil Spill Devastates Rivers Communities - John Iwori in Yenagoa, This Day (Lagos) - Lagos - An oil spill has been reported at Anyu community in Abua/Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State. The spill, according to

4) 08/30 0941 Drought devastates Romanian maize crop By Adrian Dascalu BUCHAREST, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Romania's worst drought in 100 years has devastated the maize crop, prompting farmers to feed livestock with milling wheat and raising the prospect of huge imports, analysts said on Wednesday. Unofficial estimates put the 2000 maize crop at

6) The Independent (London) August 30, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 2 - 368 words - ARCTIC MELTDOWN TURNS OUT TO BE NORMAL SUMMER - Chris Gray - THE WORST fears of the world's environmentalists have proven to be unfounded after North Pole conditions, mistaken as conclusive evidence of global warming, turned out to be

7) BBC Online, 30 August, 2000, Antarctic ozone hole widens New measurements reveal a widening hole (Photo: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Alex Kirby, The ozone hole over Antarctica has grown more rapidly than scientists had expected. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), a United Nations body, says satellite

12) The Independent (London) August 30, 2000, - COMMENT; Pg. 3 - 566 words - LEADING ARTICLE: ONE DAY WE MAY ACCEPT THE UNTHINKABLE, AND HUMANS WILL BE CLONED - THE SENSITIVITY of the subject is such that some in the medical community were wary of discussing it, arguing that further attention would only inflame opinion, and

13) DJ 08/30 =SMARTMONEY.COM: 'Frankenfoods?' Phooey By James B. Stewart NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Good for Monsanto. Now a unit of Pharmacia (PHA), the much-derided biotechnology pioneer announced this month that it's giving away rights to its patent for vitamin A-enhanced "golden rice." The company estimates that the rice could help millions,

17) The Guardian (London) August 30, 2000 - Guardian Home Pages, Pg. 3 - 614 words - Spy tapes show Kursk sunk by its own torpedo - Martin Kettle in Washington - Two onboard torpedo explosions, the second of them catastrophic, were responsible for sinking the nuclear submarine Kursk, according to US spy submarines and

21) TASS - 147 words - Pentagon starts its own investigation of Kursk sub accident. - By Andrei Surzhanskiy - WASHINGTON, August 30 - The Pentagon has started its own independent investigation into the causes of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk accident, an anonymous representative of the U. S Defence Ministry

22) Japan Economic Newswire - 307 words - 9 nuclear reactors, 50 nuclear warheads on seabed: report - WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 Kyodo - A U.S. nuclear policy researcher said Tuesday nine nuclear reactors and 50 nuclear warheads belonging to either the United States, Soviet Union or Russia currently lie on the seabed in

29) The Mirror August 30, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 6 - 96 words - SALMON TROUBLE - A FISHERIES authority is calling for an international investigation into the increasing number of salmon dying at sea. The North West Fisheries Board made the call yesterday after a massive shortfall in drift net catches was noted. A NWFB spokesman

37) The Associated Press. August 30, 2000, - 537 words - Utility telling homeowners to get homes tested for mercury contamination - An estimated 200,000 homeowners across Chicago's northern and western suburbs should have their homes tested for possible contamination by the toxic metal mercury, a utility says. Nicor Gas

Monday, August 28, 2000

2) UPDATE 1-Heavy monsoon rains kill six in South Korea SEOUL, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Six people have been killed and four are missing after heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and flooding in South Korea. Two men died in a landslide as they worked to clear debris from an earlier slide in Kunsan, about 180 km (110 miles) south of Seoul, the

6) The Guardian (London) August 28, 2000 - Guardian Foreign Pages, Pg. 12 - Europe ablaze From Greece to Corsica, wildfires take hold - A state of emergency has been declared on the Greek island of Corfu as wildfires continue to burn throughout the Balkans and many Mediterranean regions. Blazes in the island's central

9) WSJ(8/28): Biotech Firm Breeds Swine For Organ Transplants By Laura Johannes Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal. Scientists at a Boston biotechnology company say they have bred a line of miniature pigs that don't transmit potentially harmful viruses to human cells, advancing the prospects of using animal organs for human transplantation.

10) Agence France Presse - Kursk sinking linked to secret weapons test: lawmaker - MOSCOW, Aug 28 - A Russian lawmaker claimed Monday that the Kursk nuclear submarine was participating in a top-secret trial of a new weapons system when it sank in the Barents Sea earlier this month, Interfax reported. Sergei Zhekov, a lawmaker in the

14) The Guardian (London) August 28, 2000 - Guardian Home Pages, Pg. 5 - UK gives former Soviet states pounds 80m to spend on nuclear safety - Britain is to donate pounds 80m to improve nuclear safety in the states of the former Soviet Union, it was announced yesterday. Some could be spent on nuclear submarines after the recent Kursk

19) THE RUSSIAN BUSINESS MONITOR August 28, 2000 - TRADE AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION - 76 words - SIEMENS TO SELL PLUTONIUM RECYCLING PLANT TO RUSSIA SOURCE: Echo of Moscow radio, August 26, 2000 - The German newspaper Berliner Zeitung reported that Siemens will sell a plutonium recycling plant to Russia. The concern has

Sunday, August 27, 2000

1) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) August 26, 2000, - News; Pg. 5 - Sharp Flooding Stuns Southern India - By Celia W. Dugger; New York Times Service - NEW DELHI - Torrential monsoon rains and raging rivers have caused the worst flooding in decades across broad swaths of northern India

14) The Vancouver Sun August 26, 2000, - Editorial; A18 - Ethical bombshell confronts Canada: The U.S. and Britain are actively investigating the controversial stem cell technology that would use human embryos to cure a variety of illnesses. Difficult decisions must be made here, too. - Reality, says the writer

26) Channel NewsAsia August 26, 2000 - ASIA PACIFIC - Plot to bomb Sydney nuke reactor uncovered - With just 20 days to go to the start of the Olympic Games, New Zealand police have uncovered an apparent terrorist plot to target a nuclear reactor in Sydney. Australian officials have played down the threat, but New South Wales

34) United Press International - British fear sub sonnar harms whales - LONDON, Aug. 27 - Britain's Sunday Times reports the Ministry of Defence is studying claims that naval submarine-hunting sonar equipment is killing whales. According to the article published Sunday, the investigation started after several

Friday, August 25, 2000

3) Agence France Presse August 25, 2000 - Four dead in Greece as fire and heat ravage southern Europe - ATHENS, Aug 25 - Amid a persisting heatwave in southern Europe Friday, fires raging in Greece killed four people and authorities declared a state of emergency in Arcadia, in the southern Greek Peloponnese region. Greek Interior

7) The Scotsman August 25, 2000, - Pg. 9 - 1200 words - RISING TIDE OF WEATHER WARNINGS - Fred Bridgland - TORNADOES ripping across eastern and western England. Much heavier rainfall in western Scotland. Snow in August in Wales. Oak trees in Britain coming into leaf three weeks earlier than they did in the 1950s. The

16) Fed: Govt denies GM goats going to China unchecked - By Linda McSweeny CANBERRA, Aug 25 AAP - The national gene regulator today confirmed a shipment of goats implanted with human genes was China-bound, but denied the federal government was illegally sending it off. The 600 goats containing human genes, dubbed transgenic goats, are to

27) The Ottawa Citizen August 25, 2000, EARLY - News; A3 - It's time for NATO to reconsider nuclear policy: experts: Canada should follow other countries in limiting support for nuclear arsenal - James Baxter - Paranoia and politics are threatening to open a massive fissure between the United States and other NATO members

30) 08/24 DJ Police To Make Arrests In Japanese Nuclear Accident-Kyodo MITO, Japan (Dow Jones)--Police plan to arrest about three employees of JCO Co., operators of a uranium-processing facility in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, over a fatal nuclear chain reaction last September that killed two JCO workers and exposed hundreds

32) New Scientist August 26, 2000 - This Week, Pg. 15 - Exposure - Rob Edwards HIGHLIGHT: Are radiation monitors accurate ? - THOUSANDS of workers in nuclear plants, hospitals, universities and industry are being exposed to higher levels of radiation than they realise. A new European study has discovered that the

37) Japan Economic Newswire - Agency detects 2nd highest level of dioxin in Fukuoka river - TOKYO, Aug. 25 Kyodo - The Environment Agency has detected dioxin with a concentration of 350 picograms per liter in the Omuta River in Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, the second highest level ever found in a river or sea in Japan, agency

Thursday, August 24, 2000

8) - PNG hardwood for telecommunications cable deal denied - 497 words - By Kevin Ricketts, Papua New Guinea correspondent PORT MORESBY, Aug 23 AAP - Cable and Wireless Optus today rejected claims it was involved in a barter deal in which Papua New Guinea was being offered upgraded communications in return for millions of dollars'

12) THE HINDU August 24, 2000 - Cloned pig sets the stage for organ transplants - HER NAME is Xena, and she joins that other famous female, Dolly, in the ranks of the barnyard cloned. Xena's debut is reported in Science. Xena's name underscores one hope for the future of pig cloning - the use of these animals in xenotransplantation,

14) The Guardian (London) August 24, 2000 - Guardian Leader Pages, Pg. 24 - Biotech has bamboozled us all; Studies Suggest That Traditional Farming Methods Are Still The Best - The advice could scarcely have come from a more surprising source. If anyone tells you that GM is going to feed the world," Steve Smith, a director of the

16) Agence France Presse - CTBT commission hopes China will ratify treaty soon - VIENNA, Aug 24 - The Vienna-based preparatory commission for a global agreement to ban nuclear weapons testing (CTBTO) said Thursday it hoped that China would ratify the treaty in the near future. "There are some hopes with China. They might ratify in a

28) Police to make arrests over Tokaimura nuclear accident MITO, Japan, Aug. 25 (Kyodo) -- Police plan to arrest about three employees of JCO Co., operators of a uranium-processing facility in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, over a fatal nuclear chain reaction last September that killed two JCO workers and exposed hundreds

30) Workers exposed to higher radiation levels: researchers CANBERRA, Aug 24 AAP - Thousands of workers in nuclear plants such as hospitals, universities and industry are being exposed to radiation 10 times worse than currently recorded, a new study shows. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said the study, published in New Scientist magazine,

31) Daily Record August 24, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 17 - THE ATOMIC CHIP; NUCLEAR ALERT AS DOG CHASES RABBIT INTO POWER STATION - A DOG called Chip sparked a nuclear alert after chasing a rabbit down a hole near a Scots power plant. The terrier ran off while being walked by owner Keith Proudfoot near the Chapelcross station in

32) Agence France Presse - Over-fished seas take decades to recover, says researcher - PARIS, Aug 24 - Over-exploited fish stocks can take decades to recover, confounding optimists who believe that threatened species can be rebound quickly if they are left alone, according to a study published Thursday. Canadian scientist

36) The Province August 23, 2000 EDITION Final News PAGE A4 Pollution is making kids ill: Child-health study shows 25 per cent increase in cancer in past 25 years Don Harrison Children are increasingly at risk of contracting serious diseases from environmental pollution, says a 375-page report released yesterday by the Canadian Institute for

38) The Gazette (Montreal) August 24, 2000, - News; B11 - Another reason to dislike Barbie: hormone problems - PAUL RECER - WASHINGTON - Warning: mom's old Barbie doll may be dangerous to your health. As plastic used in Barbie and some other old toys decays, researchers say, it can drip a chemical that

Wednesday, August 23, 2000

1) The Guardian (London) August 23, 2000 - Guardian Home Pages, Pg. 1 - 436 words - Scientists fear waste of crucial navy polar data - James Meek - Data from top secret navy submarine missions under the North Pole holding vital clues to the nature and speed of global warming could end up lying unused because

2) Fed: Emissions trading goes to give industry confidence - By Shane Wright CANBERRA, Aug 23 AAP - Australia will abandon a key part of the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting greenhouse gases in a bid to boost gas industry confidence. Industry, Science and Resources Minister Senator Nick Minchin said today the government would not back a national

7) Jailed Mexican environmentalists may go free MEXICO CITY, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Two jailed Mexican ecologists, one awarded an international prize for his efforts to protect the nation's embattled forests, may be freed from prison this week, human rights and environmental groups said on Tuesday. Rodolfo Montiel, 44, who in April received the

10) Britain gives go-ahead for GM rapeseed trials LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The British government defied the objections of environmental groups on Wednesday by giving official permission for 21 trials of genetically modified (GM) rapeseed to start in England in September. The consent confirmed the sites unveiled on August 3 and allows Aventis

12) Agence France Presse - 664 words - China's ageing submarine fleet worse than Russia's: experts - Phil Chetwynd - BEIJING, Aug 23 - China's large but ageing fleet of submarines, including many acquired from Russia, is plagued by maintenance problems and the navy would struggle to mount a rescue if a vessel ran into

13) BANGKOK POST August 23, 2000 - 1408 words - ANALYSIS / PROTECTING AMERICAN INTERESTS: US prepares for Asian wars in face of emergent China - The Pentagon is switching its focus more and more to Asia, with Beijing as a potential superpower rival its central concern. Planning for a war with China appears to be quite advanced at the

15) Agence France Presse August 23, 2000, - 334 words - India sticks by Russian arms supplies, despite sub tragedy - NEW DELHI, Aug 23 - The tragedy involving Russia's nuclear -powered Kursk submarine will not affect weapons sales to one of its largest arms clients India, Indian officials said Thursday. "I don't see this

23) BBC Online, Wednesday, 23 August, 2000, Radiation fears remain The Russian submarine Kursk, trapped over 100m (350 ft) beneath the icy Barents Sea, is the sixth nuclear submarine to sink since the 1960s. However, environmentalists fear that the risk of radiation leaking from the Kursk's nuclear reactor could have more serious

33) Daily Record August 23, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 23 - 82 words - POOL BLUNDER KILLED UP TO 50,000 FISH - A PUBLIC swimming pool caused an " environmental disaster" when chlorine -based chemicals were released into a burn, killing up to 50,000 fish. At Perth Sheriff Court yesterday, the local authority company behind the Loch

Tuesday, August 22, 2000

1) The Mirror August 22, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 8 - 992 words - WE'RE ON THIN ICE AS NORTH POLE MELTS; MILE-WIDE GAP OPENS AT TOP OF WORLD - Alexandra Williams - IT'S the news even hardened doom-mongers have been dreading. The ice-cap at the North Pole has melted for the first time in 50 million years. The thick

5) The Christian Science Monitor August 22, 2000, - USA; Pg. 4 - 912 words - As Arctic warms, scientists rethink culprits - Peter N. Spotts, HIGHLIGHT: Some say efforts to stem global warming should focus first on gases other than carbon dioxide. - In its effort to curb global warming, a three-year-old

11) 64 delegates discuss disarmament at U.N. confab in Akita - AKITA, Japan, Aug. 22 Kyodo - Sixty-four government officials, scholars and private-sector experts from 22 countries started four days of discussions Tuesday on worldwide nuclear disarmament at a U.N. conference in Akita, northeastern Japan. 'The U.N. will be more and more

14) TASS - Admiral insists on Kursk's collision with foreign sub. - By Sergei Ostanin - MOSCOW, August 22 - Some signs of damage of the Kursk N-submarine point to its collision with a foreign submarine when it was about to surface at a small depth, Hero of the Soviet Union, Admiral Eduard Baltin, told reporters here on

16) Agence France Presse - 333 words - Russian sub will leak radiation in six weeks: Russian expert - WASHINGTON, Aug 22 - A former Russian Navy nuclear engineer, now an ardent environmental advocate, said Tuesday the sunken Russian submarine Kursk might begin leaking radiation in six weeks or earlier. "I believe that

23) The Times (London) August 22, 2000, - Overseas news - 143 words - MoD aims to soothe Gibraltar on repairs - Michael Evans and Dominique Searle - THE Ministry of Defence tried to persuade a delegation from Gibraltar yesterday that "modest" repairs could be made to a Royal Navy nuclear submarine at a dockyard in the colony

25) Radioactive uranium goes on sale on the Internet By Chris Reese NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Add radioactive uranium to the list of items you can buy and sell with the click of a computer mouse, and it might seem like a nuclear bomb-maker's dream come true. "An (Internet) auction for uranium seems far out, but it's really quite

Monday, August 21, 2000

2) Agence France Presse - Maldives, India voice concern over threat from global warming - NEW DELHI, Aug 21 - Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Monday reviewed bilateral ties and expressed concern over threats to the atoll nation from global warming. The two sides also

4) The Independent (London) August 21, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 10 - GLOBAL WARMING FEARS AS POLAR ICE CAP MELTS - Severin Carrell - THE ICECAP at the North Pole has melted for the first time in 50 million years, reinforcing fears about global warming. Scientists on board the Russian icebreaker Yamal came across a mile-long lake

5) AP Worldstream August 21, 2000; - 138 words - Barge leaks diesel fuel into Siberian river - MOSCOW - An accident on a river barge in the Siberian city of Omsk spilled about 45 tons (315 barrels) of diesel fuel into the Irtysh River Monday, a transport official said. Cleanup crews contained the spill and there was little

11) Agence France Presse - Indonesian government admits powerless to stop illegal logging - JAKARTA, Aug 21 - An average of 1.6 million hectares (3.9 million acres) of Indonesia's forests are being destroyed every year, mostly by illegal loggers with powerful connections here and abroad, a report said Saturday. The daily Suara

17) South China Morning Post August 19, 2000 - NEWS; Pg. 3 - 500 words - Fast-food chains serve GM ingredients; Greenpeace targets McDonald's, KFC and Maxim's - Yenni Kwok and Martin Wong - McDonald's, KFC and Maxim's all serve their customers food containing genetically modified (GM) ingredients, Greenpeace said

19) The Independent (London) August 21, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 2 - STRICKEN SUBMARINE: RUSSIANS FACE A TOUGH CHOICE OVER SALVAGE OF SUBMARINE - Charles Arthur Technology Editor - THE RUSSIAN government faces a stark choice for dealing with the wreck of the Kursk: leave it as a tomb for the 118 sailors, or try to salvage it.

20) The Irish Times August 21, 2000 - CITY EDITION; WORLD NEWS; Pg. 15 - Official site withdraws report on 'Kursk's' torpedoes - By SEAMUS MARTIN, International Editor - Allegations that new, cheap and dangerous torpedoes may have been the cause of the Kursk disaster have been removed from the website of Russia's

22) The Independent (London) August 20, 2000, - FEATURES; Pg. 16 - 1416 words - NUCLEAR WASTE - A DOZEN CHERNOBYLS UNDER THE SEA; THE WRECK OF THE 'KURSK' HAS JOINED THE MANY OTHER PIECES OF POTENTIALLY LETHAL NAVAL DEBRIS THAT LITTER THE SEABED - AND IN THIS CASE, THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS COULD BE CATASTROPHIC

25) Press Association Newsfile August 21, 2000, - BRANSON BALLOON PILOT ASKED TO HELP RAISE KURSK - Jane Merrick, PA News - The man who piloted Richard Branson's round-the-world balloon record attempt has been called on to help raise the Kursk, it emerged today. Once given the formal go-ahead this week, Per Lindstrand and his

28) Reuters: Finnish nuclear power plant had minor water leaks FINLAND: August 21, 2000 HELSINKI - A Finnish nuclear power station had a mildly radioactive water leak on Friday morning, the second such minor incident at the plant in two days, the country's nuclear safety officials said. The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) said that the

Monday, August 21, 2000

1) Reuters: World climate talks in Lyon to thrash out rules FRANCE: August 18, 2000 PARIS - Representatives of 180 countries will meet in the French city of Lyon next month to work out how an international agreement to curb the greenhouse gas emissions will be made to work in practice. The negotiations on September 4-15 between experts and

2) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 19, 2000, - Pg. 3 - Study: Pollution, heat turning Tokyo tropical - Yomiuri - Central Tokyo's summer climate has changed since the 1990s, and the city has been experiencing frequent heavy cloudbursts similar to those in tropical regions, researchers said Friday. This summer, central

9) Agence France Presse - Indonesian government admits powerless to stop illegal logging - JAKARTA, Aug 19 - An average of 1.6 hectares (3.9 million acres) of Indonesia's forests are being destroyed every year, mostly by illegal loggers with powerful connections here and abroad, a report said Saturday. The daily Suara Karya daily

13) The Nation (Thailand) August 20, 2000, - Thailand makes a breakthrough with fragrant rice - PENNAPA HONGTHONG / The Nation - WITH debate around the world raging about potential health risks of genetically modified organisms, there comes refreshing news from the paddies of Thailand. Rice has just become more nutritious, naturally.

15) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 19, 2000, - Pg. 3 - Mori set to urge India, Pakistan to sign CTBT - Yomiuri - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori is scheduled to leave Saturday on a four-nation tour of southwest Asia, where he is expected to urge India and Pakistan to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty

16) Los Angeles Times August 20, 2000, Home Edition - Part A; Part 1; Page 1; Foreign Desk - RUSSIA SAYS ALL ABOARD SUBMARINE LIKELY DEAD; MILITARY: MOST OF THE VESSEL WAS FLOODED AFTER IT SANK, THE NAVY REVEALS, ENDING HOPE OF A RESCUE. NORWEGIAN AND BRITISH TEAMS ARRIVE TO ASSIST. - ROBYN DIXON and RICHARD BOUDREAUX, TIMES

19) The Canberra Times August 19, 2000, - A;11 - Concern over sub's reactors - PAUL BROWN THE GUARDIAN, REUTERS - LONDON, Friday: There are about 1.2 tonnes of enriched uranium in the twin reactors which powered the submarine Kursk, which is a modern Oscar II class. Constant monitoring by the Norwegians has found no

23) The New York Times August 19, 2000, Late Edition - Final - Section A; Page 6; Column 1; Foreign Desk - Russian Admiral Acknowledges Explosion Inside Sub - By PATRICK E. TYLER with STEVEN LEE MYERS - MOSCOW, Aug. 18 - The commander of Russia's Northern Fleet acknowledged today that a terrible internal explosion

33) GREENPEACE LANDS INFLATABLE WHALE IN DOWNTOWN WASHINGTON, DC WASHINGTON, DC, August 18, 2000 (ENS) - Greenpeace activists placed a 110 foot inflatable whale in Washington, DC's Dupont Circle Thursday as the centerpiece of a protest against Japan's expanded whale hunt, now taking place in the North Pacific. The environmental group is demanding

34) The Irish Times August 19, 2000 - CITY EDITION; WEEKEND; Pg. 60 - 3594 words - A race against toxins The 2000 Olympics in Sydney are to be held on the site of one of the worst dioxin dumps in the world. Siobhan McHugh looks at the monumental clean-up that has preceded the Green Games - In the original model submitted for

Thursday, August 17, 2000

1) The Guardian (London) August 17, 2000 - Guardian Home Pages, Pg. 9 - Greenhouse build-up worst for 20m years - Tim Radford Science editor - Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest for 20m years, two British scientists reveal today. The two men analysed the shells of tiny ocean creatures to build up a

2) The Times (London) August 17, 2000, - Home news - Climate alert for swamp of London - Nick Nuttall Environment Correspondent - BRITAIN faces the threat of becoming a tropical island with London a mangrove swamp unless urgent efforts are made to fight global warming, according to British researchers. Scientists

3) INTERVIEW-Poland hopes Russia dispute will not hurt Yamal link By Marta Karpinska WARSAW, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Poland hopes that its dispute with Russia over the routing of gas pipelines on the Polish territory will not derail the completion of the large Yamal gas transport project, a deputy economy minister said on Thursday. Andrzej Karbownik

8) Africa News August 17, 2000 - Kenya; World Bank Accused Of Forest Destruction - NATION Correspondent, The Nation (Nairobi) - Nairobi - The World Bank, one of the largest international financiers of forestry projects, has failed to conserve forests and even contributed to their exploitation. According to an assessment of its

11) The Guardian (London) August 17, 2000 - Guardian City Pages, Pg. 23 - PPL teams up with Bayer - Andrew Clark - Andrew Clark PPL Therapeutics, Britain's leading animal cloning company, has taken a big step towards establishing itself as a commercial drugs company by signing up Bayer, the German pharmaceuticals

13) The Independent (London) August 17, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 3 - PIG CLONING BREAKTHROUGH BUT VIRUS FEARS MAY DELAY ORGAN TRANSPLANTS - Steve Connor - TWO INDEPENDENT groups of scientists announced new techniques that enabled them to create the first cloned pigs. They hope their work will lead to the use of pig organs in human

18) Vatican says human embryo cloning stains innocents By Luke Baker ROME, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The Vatican on Thursday condemned Britain's proposal to allow the cloning of human embryos, calling it a gross violation that would sully the blood of innocents. "The decision can only provoke indignation among those who respect the value and the

23) BBC Online, Wednesday, 16 August, 2000, Online, Shallow waters raise radiation fears The Russian submarine Kursk, trapped over 100m (350 ft) beneath the icy Barents Sea, is the sixth nuclear submarine to sink since the 1960s. However, environmentalists fear that the risk of radiation leaking from the Kursk's nuclear reactor could be by far

28) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 17, 2000, - Mass deaths of penguins and seals leave Brazilian experts puzzled - Rio de Janeiro - Some 200 Arctic seals and penguins were found dead Wednesday off the southern coast of Brazil. The animals were discovered on a 20-kilometre-long stretch of beach between the villages of

29) 08/17 TotalFina says tests show that sunken tanker Erika ... QUIMPER, France (AP) -- New tests show that a tanker that split in two and caused a massive oil spill off France's western coast was carrying heavy oil, the company that hired the tanker said in a statement Thursday. The tests "confirm that the (tanker's) cargo was heavy oil No. 2 ...

30) 08/17 FEATURE-Japan stands defiant as world condemns whaling By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - What is wrong with Japanese whaling? Nothing, according to Takao Suzuki, a customer at one of Tokyo's most famous whale restaurants. "This is part of Japanese culture," he said over a lunch special of fried whale meat and soup at the Kujiraya, or

Wednesday, August 16, 2000

1) Australians propose burying ``greenhouse'' gases SYDNEY, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Australian scientists are working on a plan to reduce "greenhouse" gases in the atmosphere by injecting excess quantities of carbon dioxide deep underground. "There is a growing view that geological disposal of CO2 (carbon dioxide) could be one of the most

7) Brazil renews ban on Amazon mahogany exploitation RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. 15 (Kyodo) -- The Brazilian government has extended until 2002 a four-year-long ban on the issuing of new licenses for timber companies to exploit mahogany in the Amazon rain forest region, the Environment Ministry said Tuesday. The measure does not affect licenses

12) The Associated Press. August 16, 2000, - 630 words - Experts decry radiation threat from submarines - By KIM GAMEL, - STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The Russian nuclear submarine trapped in the Arctic wouldn't be the first radiation risk on the ocean floor. But experts fear it could be the worst because it rests in shallow

14) United Press International August 16, 2000, - 1142 words - Analysis: Russian sub tragedy's fallout -- let blame game begin - By ARIEL COHEN - The Russian navy's acceptance of British assistance to rescue the trapped crew of the damaged Kursk nuclear submarine highlights the failure of both the military and the Kremlin

18) BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Political Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring August 16, 2000, - 303 words - Three NATO submarines seen in Barents Sea before Kursk sunk SOURCE: Interfax news agency, Moscow, in English 1222 gmt 16 Aug 00 - According to Russia's Northern Fleet headquarters information, "three NATO submarines were

21) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) August 16, 2000, - News; Pg. 5 - 689 words - Russian Submarine Was Designed to Be Hard to Sink - By Steven Mufson and Kathy Sawyer ; Washington Post Service - Whatever problem sank the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk, it had to be big - and that fact alone can

28) The Guardian (London) August 16, 2000 - Guardian Home Pages, Pg. 11 - 942 words - Changing the face of fish farming; World Fish Stocks Are Dangerously Low. More And More Vessels Are Chasing Fewer And Fewer Fish, And Prices Are Soaring. Attempts To Control Overfishing And Save The Industry From Collapse Have Failed

29) The Independent (London) August 16, 2000, Wednesday - NEWS; Pg. 10 - 189 words - UN WARNS OF PIRATE FISHERMEN LOOTING SEA - David Barrett - ENDANGERED FISH species are being pushed towards extinction by pirate vessels that flout international conventions, the United Nations warned yesterday. The UN report said illegal

Tuesday, August 15, 2000

1) AP Worldstream August 15, 2000; - 295 words - Oil pipeline fire kills 18 in Nigeria - LAGOS, Nigeria - An oil pipeline fire killed 18 people in the Niger River Delta, an area where similar blazes have killed hundreds, news reports said Tuesday. The victims were among hundreds of people crowding around a leaking pipeline on

7) U.S. food companies seeing little biotech backlash By Susan Kelly CHICAGO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - There may be an uproar in Europe over genetically modified (GMO) ingredients in food, but American consumers have voiced only mild concern and food companies say they are under little pressure to change. As an expected record harvest of corn and soybeans gets

9) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 15, 2000, - Pg. 1 - 389 words - Govt to submit antinuclear bill to U.N. - A new resolution bill on nuclear disarmament the government is planning to submit at the U.N. General Assembly in October will include clear targets to realize the total abolition of nuclear arms, The Yomiuri Shimbun

10) 08/15 FEATURE-Kazakh town's bio-weapons past haunts present By Sujata Rao STEPNOGORSK, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Forget the atom bomb, something just as lethal could be brewing in a neighborhood garage. Experts say biological weapons, easy and cheap to make, will be a major menace in the 21st century. Bio-warfare was once the Soviet Union's deadliest

13) EVENING CHRONICLE (Newcastle, UK) August 15, 2000, Tuesday Edition 1 - WORLD TONIGHT, Pg. 6 - 294 words - Rescue bid for sub crew fails - Frantic efforts to reach a Russian nuclear submarine trapped on the ocean floor failed today and chances of rescuing 116 sailors on the vessel appeared increasingly bleak, navy

18) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 15, 2000, - 218 words - Gibraltans protest against presence of crippled British nuclear sub - London - A demonstration by residents of Gibraltar has been scheduled for Tuesday to protest at the continuing presence of crippled nuclear submarine HMS Tireless, the British Broadcasting

19) The Mirror August 15, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 2 - 580 words - K-FARCE; MILITARY CHIEFS TO JOURNALISTS.. KOSOVO BOMBING WAS MOST ACCURATE EVER MILITARY CHIEFS IN SECRET MEMO.. ONLY 40 PER CENT OF OUR BOMBS HIT TARGET - Gary Jones And Tom Newton Dunn - LESS than half the bombs dropped in the Kosovo war were

23) NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT August 15, 2000 - 138 words - Icelandic salmon stocks run low - Salmon fishermen in Iceland have apparently suffered one of the worst salmon seasons ever, with many saying that there are no fish left to catch. According to Iceland Review, the situation is particularly bad in the north between the

24) The New York Times August 15, 2000, - Section A; Page 22; Column 1; Editorial Desk - 226 words - A Reprehensible Whale Hunt - Over the years, Japanese whalers have killed thousands of whales in the name of scientific research. But this has merely been a cover for commercial whaling aimed at satisfying Japanese

25) The Guardian (London) August 15, 2000 - Guardian Home Pages, Pg. 1 - 532 words - UN to crack down as pirate boats threaten to drive fish to extinction - Paul Brown, Environment correspondent - A quarter of the world's fish catch now comes from pirate boats, flying flags of convenience and flouting

27) 08/14 Canada Starts Fund to Combat Arctic Pollutants OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada said on Monday it had established a C$20 million ($13.5 million) fund to help developing countries reduce the production of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) which are rapidly building up in the Canadian Arctic. Some experts link POPs -- which travel huge distances

28) THE HINDU August 15, 2000 - 255 words - Gas victims resort to cyber protest - BHOPAL, AUG. 14. The survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster today launched a unique cyber action to send their calls for justice to Union Carbide and the Government of India at the initiative of Greenpeace and two survivor support groups - Bhopal Gas

31) The Associated Press. August 15, 2000, - 229 words - Freight train carrying chemical cars derails in Montana - MALTA, Mont. - Six tanker cars of a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train, three of them containing a poisonous chemical, derailed east of Malta on Monday night, closing U.S. Route 2 and forcing

Monday, August 14, 2000

17) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) August 14, 2000, - Pg. 18 - Features: Comment: Why I fear the human cost of better health Theodore Dalrymple says that while legal cloning using embryos would bring benefits, it would also undermine the foundation of medical care - respect for life - By THEODORE DALRYMPLE - THERE are few things

18) The Independent (London) August 14, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 2 - MPS TO GET FREE VOTE ON CLONING OF EMBRYOS - Paul Waugh Deputy Political Editor - MPs, RATHER than scientists, are to be given the final say over whether cloning of human embryo cells should be allowed for medical research. Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer

21) Chronology of Russian nuclear submarine accidents MOSCOW, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Technical faults crippled a Russian Oscar-2 submarine on Monday, forcing it to shut down its nuclear reactor and fall to the sea bed in the northern Barents Sea. A Russian navy spokesman said the submarine Kursk was not carrying any nuclear weapons and the

22) BBC Online, Monday, 14 August, 2000, Russian nuclear dustbin threats By James Robbins in Murmansk Russia has the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. However, it is the risk of an accident with ageing nuclear reactors from obsolete Soviet submarines which is causing most concern.

23) Agence France Presse - No nuclear bombs survived Greenland crash 32 years ago: Pentagon - WASHINGTON, Aug 14 - The Pentagon said Monday no nuclear bombs survived the crash of a B-52 bomber in Greenland 32 years ago, dismissing as "inaccurate" a Danish newspaper report that a bomb may have slipped to the bottom

29) The Times (London) August 14, 2000, - Overseas news - 815 words - Whaling 'extortion' denounced - Robert Whymant - JAPAN wields its huge foreign aid budget to coerce developing nations into supporting its whaling interests, even threatening to withdraw aid from small countries unless they vote with Tokyo at the

30) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) August 14, 2000, - Pg. 08 - News: Royal salmon to be guarded by helicopter - By Auslan Cramb Scottish Correspondent - AIRBORNE poaching patrols are to be introduced to protect salmon stocks returning to one of the royal family's favourite fishing rivers. Bailiffs will use helicopters to

31) Agence France Presse - Bhopal gas leak survivors launch "cyber protest" - 264 words - NEW DELHI, Aug 14 - Thousands of survivors of the 1994 Bhopal gas disaster in central India launched a "cyber protest" outside the site of the city's deserted Union Carbide factory on Monday. The protestors sent a flood of

32) The Express August 14, 2000 - MYSTERY AS THOUSANDS OF FISH KILLED BY POISONING - BY JOHN INGHAM Environment Editor - THOUSANDS of fish have been killed in a spate of mystery river poisonings across the country. More than 50,000 salmon, roach and brown trout have been found floating on the surface of rivers and canals from

36) Agence France Presse - KFOR troops seize lead plant, clashes ensue in Kosovo - KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Aug 14 - French, British and Danish peacekeepers swept Monday into a Serbian area of Kosovo to shut down a dangerously polluting lead smelter, provoking clashes in this flashpoint town, a KFOR spokesman

Sunday, August 13, 2000

3) The Gazette (Montreal) August 12, 2000, - Science; I6 - The Ark goes to seed: As vegetation types die out all over the world, British scientists are creating a Noah's Ark for plants - NIGEL HAWKES - LONDON - Down in Sussex in southern England, Kew Gardens is building a Noah's Ark for plants. The seeds

5) XINHUA - More Tibetans to Have Solar-Powered Electricity - BEIJING, August 12 - China's State Development Planning Commission and the State Power Corporation have launched a plan to give Tibet's Ngari Prefecture solar-powered electricity by 2003, ending its history of using oil lamps. Some 8,000 power generating

8) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) August 13, 2000, - Pg. 21 - News: Millions of birds die as Australian farmers clear bushland NATURE WATCH - By NICK SQUIRES AND DAVID HARRISON - PARROTS and cockatoos are among more than 200 species of birds endangered in Australia because trees are being felled at a rate similar to that found in

9) Sunday Express August 13, 2000 - INCENSE TREE THAT'S FACING THE CHOP - From Colin Short in kuala lumpur - AN exotic tree prized for its fragrant wood and oil to help make incense is in danger of extinction, warn environmentalists. The Asian Aquilaria - or agarwood tree - which is logged in Indonesia and other countries in

11) The Gazette (Montreal) August 12, 2000, - Editorial / Op-ed; B5 - A patent on life: It's time for a national debate on the fundamental issues raised by the Harvard mouse case - MAUREEN MCTEER - The Federal Court of Appeal's decision in the Harvard mouse patent case will give us all a lot to talk about. This

13) Sunday Express August 13, 2000 - UPROAR PREDICTED AS EMBRYO CLONING GETS GO-AHEAD TO HELP CURE DISEASES - By Jon Craig - A MEDICAL ethics row will break this week when the Govern-ment gives the go-ahead for human embryo cloning. Chief Medical Officer Professor Liam Donaldson and a team of experts will back cloning in a

17) Agence France Presse - US atomic bomb lost off Greenland since 1968: report - COPENHAGEN, Aug 13 - The United States government has for years covered up the loss of an atomic bomb from a B-52 which crashed off the coast of Greenland in 1968, the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten revealed Sunday. Staff at a US military

18) The Times (London) August 12, 2000, - Overseas news - Putin prepares huge cut in nuclear forces - Alice Lagnado - PRESIDENT PUTIN is expected to slash Russia's strategic nuclear rocket forces in the near future in moves that will change indelibly the face of the the country's military. The Strategic Missile Force has long

21) AP Worldstream August 12, 2000; - Two reactors shut down after electrical faults at nuclear plant - SOFIA, Bulgaria - Two reactors at Bulgaria's only nuclear plant have been temporarily shut down following a malfunction of high voltage equipment, the state BTA news agency reported Saturday. According to plant officials

Friday, August 11, 2000

Lloyd's List August 10, 2000 - Pg. 3 - 165 words - Offshore: Northstar activists arrested on barge - DAVID OSLER - FIVE Greenpeace activists and two photographers who occupied a BP Amoco transport barge in the Arctic have been arrested. The environmentalists were members of a party that boarded the

5) Cameroon gives local people more say over forests YAOUNDE, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Cameroon's government has for the first time authorised five village communities in the East Province to manage their own forests, the Ministry of Environment and Forests said on Thursday. Lazare Mpouel Balla, the ministry's permanent secretary, was quoted by

14) Agence France Presse - CTBT is main obstacle to resumption of Japanese aid to Pakistan - ISLAMABAD, Aug 11 - Japan will lift its sanctions against Pakistan once it signs the treaty banning nuclear tests, Ambassador Sadaaki Numata said Friday ahead of a landmark visit here by Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. He said Islamabad's

15) The Independent (London) August 11, 2000, - FOREIGN NEWS; Pg. 14 - PUTIN URGED TO CUT NUCLEAR FORCES - Martin Nesirky In Moscow - RUSSIA'S Security Council will today advise President Vladimir Putin to cut land-based nuclear missiles and merge the rest of the Strategic Rocket Force with the air force, a defence

17) The Guardian (London) August 11, 2000 - Guardian Home Pages, Pg. 3 - Missile warning to US - Martin Kettle in Los Angeles - A decision by the United States to proceed with its controversial national missile defence system (NMD) could trigger a huge build-up of nuclear arms by China and Russia and increase nuclear

19) Agence France Presse - EU opens probe into nuclear joint venture - BRUSSELS, Aug 11 - The European Commission said Friday it has opened a four-month in-depth merger regulation inquiry into the proposed joint venture between Framatome SA, Siemens AG, and France's Cogema. The venture will combine the nuclear activities of Siemens and

26) 08/10 Wildlife Sanctions Urged Vs Japan WASHINGTON (AP) -- The World Wildlife Fund urged the Clinton administration Thursday to immediately impose economic sanctions against Japan after a report that a whale from an endangered species had been killed. "There is no longer any reason for the United States to delay action," said Richard N. Mott,

27) New Scientist August 12, 2000 - This Week, Pg. 11 - Dead in the water - Diane Martindale HIGHLIGHT: Lobsters are the first victims of New York's pesticide frenzy - A ONCE thriving fishing industry off the coast of New York lies ruined, after the mysterious death of 95 per cent of the local lobster population. The

Thursday, August 10, 2000

8) New Straits Times (Malaysia) August 10, 2000 - National; Pg. 6 - FAO: Rate of destruction slowing down - Kuala Lumpur - KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. - Although the rate of deforestation is slowing down, the destruction of the world's forests is still continuing. The rate of deforestation in tropical countries is down by

14) Britain says stranded Gibraltar nuclear sub safe LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Britain on Thursday repeated its assurances that a crippled nuclear submarine stranded in Gibraltar is safe. HMS Tireless was towed into Gibraltar, on Spain's southern tip, on May 19 after a leak developed in the cooling system of its nuclear reactor. The reactor

15) 08/10 Plutonium Tests By MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press Writer BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Full-fledged nuclear tests are off-limits but scientists quietly continue to test plutonium's power by exploding small, potent packages 1,000 feet beneath the Nevada desert. Since 1997, scientists at Livermore Lawrence National Laboratory have unleashed a

16) The New York Times August 10, 2000, Late Edition - Final - Section A; Page 1; Column 1; Foreign Desk - STUDY SAID TO FIND U.S. MISSILE SHIELD MIGHT INCITE CHINA - By STEVEN LEE MYERS - WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 - A highly classified intelligence report warns that deploying an American national missile

20) Two French N-plants found unable to resist quakes PARIS, Aug 10 (Reuters) - France's Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) said on Thursday it asked Electricite de France (EdF) to make in-depth checks on two of its nuclear plants after design faults showed they could not resist a major earthquake. The discovery of faults in the safety system

29) Korea Times August 11, 2000, - Spilled Oil From Sunken Freighter Forms 6-km Slicks - YONGDOK, Kyongsang-pukto (Yonhap) x The bunker C and diesel oil leaking from a freighter sunken after a collision with a Chinese ship 20 miles east of Changpo-ri Tuesday has formed an oil slick measuring 300 to 400 meters wide and six

30) AP Worldstream August 10, 2000; - Tar balls wash up on southern Spanish beaches - MADRID, Spain - Balls of a black, tar-like substance have washed up on a 40-kilometer stretch (25-mile) of beach in an area of southern Spain that draws a million tourists a year, authorities said Thursday. The balls, of about three

31) APO 08/10 Ship That Dumped Oil Off Fla. Sought By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press Writer HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- Swimming advisories were expected to be lifted Thursday on the final beaches contaminated by oil as the Coast Guard tried to find the ship that dumped the fuel off the Florida coast. The area's worst oil spill in at least a decade

33) Japan Economic Newswire August 10, 2000, - China announces plan to phase out ozone -depleting chemicals - BEIJING, Aug. 10 Kyodo - China has announced a program to phase out several ozone -depleting chemicals over a nine-year period, state media reported Thursday. The measures will lead to the banning of several industrial

35) 08/10 Greenpeace Forms Unit for 'Green' Technology AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - The environmental group Greenpeace said Thursday that it was forming a unit to spur the creation of "green" technologies. "The objective of the unit is to influence the development of technology toward sustainable solutions and promote their entry into the

Wednesday, August 9, 2000

4) AP Worldstream August 9, 2000; - 243 words - Greenpeace activists collect leaked oil to demonstrate government neglect - MOSCOW - Greenpeace has collected 15 metric tons (105 barrels) of oil from the site of a 1993 oil spill in central Russia to protest what it calls government neglect of the environment, a spokesman

5) Birmingham Post August 9, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 3 - 212 words - INSECTS DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING - Scientists believe global warming has killed off a fifth of British insects, according to a study conducted in Warwickshire. Dr George McGavin and Mr Darren Mann, of Oxford University Museum of Natural History, carried out

9) ELEVEN COMPANIES CULTIVATE A GREENER POWER MARKET DENVER, Colorado, August 8, 2000 (ENS) - Eleven major companies based in the United States have formed the Green Power Market Development Group to develop corporate markets for 1,000 megawatts of renewable energy over the next decade. The corporate members include DuPont, General Motors, IBM,

14) - 421 words - Fed: Countries not embracing GM will be left behind - Gene BIO CANBERRA, Aug 9 AAP - Countries that did not embrace genetic modification (GM) of foods would be left behind while others benefited, a key US industry adviser said today. Val Giddings, the food and agriculture vice president of the BIO group, told an

Agence France Presse August 9, 2000, - 202 words - Brazilian court bars cultivation of genetically modified soy beans - BRASILIA, Aug 8 - The Regional Federal Court of Brasilia on Tuesday barred the US transgenic seed producer Monsanto from growing genetically modified soybeans until their environmental impact is

18) The Washington Times August 09, 2000, Wednesday, - PART A; Pg. A1 - 1135 words - Pakistan gets more Chinese weapons; Beijing also sells to N. Korea, Iran - Bill Gertz; - China increased its missile-related sales to Pakistan last year and is continuing to supply nuclear, chemical and biological

29) Japan Economic Newswire - 163 words - Honda achieves 'zero output' of landfill waste at all plants - TOKYO, Aug. 9 Kyodo - Honda Motor Co. said Wednesday it achieved 'zero' output of landfill waste at all of its domestic manufacturing plants in July, becoming the first such company in the Japanese automobile industry.

30) MARIANAS ISLANDERS PROTEST TOXIC PCBs LEFT BY U.S. ARMY By Rowena Singh SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands, August 8, 2000 (ENS) - Tanapag villagers and Greenpeace activists protested Friday outside the U.S. Attorney General's Office in downtown Saipan, expressing outrage at what they called "gross negligence and environmental crimes" committed by

31) AP Worldstream August 9, 2000; - 338 words - Lead levels 200 times higher than world norms - PRISTINA, Yugoslavia - The United Nations is launching a public health awareness campaign after discovering that lead pollution levels in the area around a northern Kosovo town were 200 times higher than the maximum safe levels

Tuesday, August 8, 2000

5) Japan Economic Newswire August 8, 2000, Tuesday - 341 words - EU in principle against CO2 cut through forest absorption - TOKYO, Aug. 8 Kyodo - The European Union (EU) has suggested that efforts to curb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to tackle global warming should not in principle rely on the use of 'sinks,' or the

11) OTC 08/07 2001 RUSSIA: CORRUPTION, ILLEGAL LOGGING THREATEN FAR ... KHABAROVSK, RUSSIA, (Aug. 6) IPS - Illegal logging, fuelled by corruption and timber demands from Japan, China and North and South Korea, is leading to the plundering of the Russian Far East's forests, one of the world's largest

13) ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence August 8, 2000 - Pg. 5 - 109 words - Consumer resistance to GM food won't last 10 years, says expert SOURCE: Sydney Morning Herald ABSTRACT: Australian consumers would embrace genetically modified foods in less than a decade. Biotechnology Industry Association

14) France's Glavany wants EU limit on GMO seed content PARIS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - French Farm Minister Jean Glavany, whose country currently holds the presidency of the European Union, said on Tuesday he would push member states to agree a maximum threshhold for GMO content in seeds. In an editorial published in daily Le Monde, Glavany said the law

16) Agence France Presse - 186 words - Cambodia ratifies nuclear test ban treaty - PHNOM PENH, Aug 8 - Cambodia on Tuesday ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), four years after signing it, according to members of parliament who attended a debate on the issue. "Today the National Assembly ratified

22) Agence France Presse August 8, 2000, - 224 words - Two-thirds of US contaminated sites will never be safe enough: report - WASHINGTON, Aug 7 - More than two-thirds of the nearly 150 US nuclear facilities contaminated during the Cold War will never be safe for use by the population, according to a report released here

23) The New York Times August 8, 2000, - Section A; Page 8; Column 1; Foreign Desk - 1510 words - United States Is Worried About an Increased Threat of Nuclear Conflict Over Kashmir - By JUDITH MILLER and JAMES RISEN - Behind President Clinton's blunt warning last spring that South Asia was the world's most perilous

30) Daily Record August 8, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 25 - 244 words - PESTICIDE BANNED OVER CANCER FEARS - James Moncur - GOVERNMENT scientists have ordered a ban on a killer pesticide thought to cause cancer. The announcement came after the Record revealed the lethal chemical was being used on two Scots golf courses bidding

31) APn 08/07 India-Animal Skins NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Wildlife agencies have seized hundreds of skins and claws poached from endangered leopards, tigers and antelope, India's deputy environment minister told Parliament on Monday. The skins of 249 leopards, 221 blackbuck antelope and 21 tigers were seized over the past year, said Babu Lal

Monday, August 7, 2000

2) Daily Record August 7, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 17 - MUTANT MIDGE PLAGUE FEAR - MUTANT midges could suck the life out of Scotland's tourist industry, scientists warned yesterday. Experts say the super- bugs will live longer than normal midges and could spread throughout the country due to global warming. Midges are

3) The Independent (London) August 7, 2000, - NEWS; Pg. 3 - GLOBAL WARMING IS CREATING A WORLD WHERE BIZARRE WEATHER IS THE NORM - David Keys - THE DEVASTATING floods in India and massive forest fires in the US are almost certainly connected and appear to be the predictable consequences of global warming. Many scientists

5) Press Association Newsfile August 7, 2000, - 235 words - Greenpeace claims that drilling from Northstar - an artificial gravel island constructed in 39ft of water in BP's newest oil field - will contribute to Arctic melting. - Ms Tunmore said: "The Arctic is heating up faster than anywhere else on the planet and polar bears and

7) Reuters: Brazil Petrobras has new, minor oil spill - TV BRAZIL : August 7, 2000 SAO PAULO - Brazil's Globo television reported that state oil giant Petrobras , which last month caused the country's worst oil spill in 25 years, has had another, although minor, offshore oil spill. Globo showed a helicopter view of an oil stain in the

14) Agence France Presse - Malaysian PM chides rich nations for not helping forestry programs - KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad chided rich nations Monday for failing to honour their commitments to help developing countries save the world's forests. Mahathir said developed nations were

19) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 7, 2000, - China creates GM virus to kill insect pests - Beijing - China plans to use a genetically modified virus to protect crops from harmful insects as an alternative to chemical insecticide, state media reported on Monday. Scientists at Wuhan University in central China created

23) Asahi News Service August 7, 2000, - HIROSHIMA WORKS TO ABOLISH NUKES - HIROSHIMA, Japan - The 55th anniversary of this city's 1945 atomic bombing was marked on Aug. 6 by a plea from Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba to carry the fight to abolish nuclear weapons into the next century. "We must carry on the experience of suffering from

24) THE RUSSIAN BUSINESS MONITOR August 7, 2000, - ONE-FIFTH OF RUSSIANS READY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO DEFEND COUNTRY'S INTERESTS SOURCE: RosBusinessConsulting agency, August 05, 2000 - The poll, conducted by the independent center ROMIR in July, indicated that 22.7% of Russians are ready to use nuclear weapons to defend the

Sunday, August 6, 2000

4) OTC Warmer Tropical Waters Portend Climate Change Aug. 6 (Environmental News Network/KRTBN)--Since 1984, tropical waters in the Northern Hemisphere have warmed at a rate of about 1 degree Fahrenheit per decade, according to data compiled by NOAA. This figure is 10 times the global rate, a harbinger of climate change. "If temperatures continue to

14) Agence France Presse - 237 words - French government orders destruction of 46 hectares of GM soya - PARIS, Aug 5 - The French government said Saturday it had ordered the destruction of 46 hectares (114 acres) of soya grown in southeastern France from stock which contained genetically modified (GM) seeds. The decision was

22) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 6, 2000, - Pg. 6 - Editorial / Destroy Cold War nuclear legacy - Yomiuri - Hiroshima on Sunday arrives at the 55th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of the city, as will Nagasaki on Wednesday. Holding peace memorial ceremonies annually on those days, the two cities have been

24) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) August 05, 2000, - Pg. 08 - News: Nuclear sub base may be privatised - By Michael Smith and Tara Womersley - MAINTENANCE of the nuclear submarine base at Faslane on the Clyde could be handed over to a private company, the Government admitted yesterday. Geoffrey Hoon, the Defence Secretary, said the

25) Agence France Presse - Taiwan may build nuclear waste disposal site near China: report - TAIPEI, Aug 6 - Taiwan may set up a nuclear waste disposal site on a remote islet near China after the state-run Taiwan Power Co. completes an environmental impact report, it was reported Sunday. "Taipower is expected to come up with the

28) 08/05 Australia loses bluefin tuna case against Japan CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- The Australian government has lost its international case against Japan over experimental fishing for southern bluefin tuna. A Washington, D.C.-based international tribunal established under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ruled that it did not have

32) Jiji Press Ticker Service August 05, 2000, - Whaling Dispute Heating up Between Japan, U.S. - Washington, Aug. 5 - Japan and the United States are crossing swords afresh over Japan's research-purpose whaling, with Washington signaling readiness to take punitive action against Tokyo. The fresh whaling feud,

33) 08/05 Alarm Over After Gas Escapes From German Plant COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - A cloud of a chlorine derivative gas escaped from a chemical plant in the western German town of Leverkusen in the early hours of Sunday, but nobody was hurt, police said. A spokesman for the fire service in the industrial town just north of Cologne told

34) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) August 05, 2000, - Pg. 02 - Travel: Med sites beyond repair - By Paul Miles - Four areas of the Mediterranean are so environmentally damaged they can be considered "lost", according to a study produced by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The Italian Adriatic and the Spanish coast between

Friday, August 4, 2000

6) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 4, 2000, - 260 words - Oil row in Russia mounts as Greenpeace protests in Siberia - Moscow - The environmental organisation Greenpeace on Friday stepped up its campaign against Russian and Western oil companies it says are polluting vast areas of Siberia and other regions of Russia

11) INTERVIEW-Scientist says GM food danger big unknown By Robert Elliott BUENOS AIRES, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Transgenic foods may threaten humans and the environment with potential allergies, toxins and illnesses and should be banned until further testing is done, a scientific adviser for Greenpeace said. "There's a paucity of scientific data.

12) The Ottawa Citizen August 4, 2000, - News; A3 - Ruling guards researchers' rights: Critics fear it will result in monopolies on living things, lock up ownership of discoveries - Tom Spears - You can now patent a mouse in Canada, or a fish, elephant, tree or any other non-human life form that you create by genetic

14) The Ethnic NewsWatch Hinduism Today August 31, 2000 - Pg. 66 - GM Foods: Gift or Curse? - Microbiologist Vatsala Sperling argues that genetic modification of foods is fraught with so much uncertainty and potential for disaster that research should be abandoned. Dr. Manjul Sharma of India's Biotechnology

15) UPDATE 1-Italy blocks sale of four GM maize varieties By David Brough ROME, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Italy blocked the sale of four varieties of genetically modified (GM) maize on Friday as a precaution amid concerns over their possible impact on health and the environment. "Prime Minister Giuliano Amato blocked the four GM maize varieties as a

(Greenpeace) 16) The New York Times August 4, 2000, Late Edition - Final - Section C; Page 4; Column 4; Business/Financial Desk - 563 words - Novartis Ended Use of Gene-Altered Foods - By ANDREW POLLACK - Novartis A.G., one of the world's leading agricultural biotechnology companies, acknowledged yesterday that it had eliminated

22) Japan Economic Newswire - Record 1,242 A-bomb victims hospitalized in FY 1999 - NAGASAKI, Aug. 4 Kyodo - A record 1,242 atomic bomb victims were hospitalized at the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital in fiscal 1999, an increase of 12 from fiscal 1998, hospital officials said Friday. The hospital's annual

29) U.S. threatens retaliation over Japan whale hunt By Adam Entous WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it was prepared to retaliate against Japan with "very strong" measures if Tokyo pressed ahead with a hotly contested whale hunt in the north Pacific. Over objections from the United States, Britain and leading environmental

30) 08/04 More mystery seal deaths off Kazakh Caspian coast ALMATY, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Seals have started dying again en masse off Kazakhstan's Caspian Sea shores, two months after 10,000 of the mammals died of mysterious causes in the oil-rich region, a official in the ex-Soviet republic said Friday. Turlan Mukashev, head of the

33) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 4, 2000, - Pg. 2 - Hormone disrupters in household air - Yomiuri - Endocrine-disrupting chemicals-- environmental hormones--have been detected in household air in Tokyo, according to results of a survey released by the Tokyo metropolitan government. This is the first time data

Thursday, August 3, 2000

7) Reuters Morocco tenders for $200-mln wind power farms MOROCCO : August 3, 2000 RABAT - Morocco issued yesterday an international tender for the construction of $200 million wind power farms in the northern and southern areas of Tangiers and Tarfaya, a senior ONE manager said. "We launched today an international tender to select the best

23) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) August 3, 2000, - Pg. 1 - High radiation levels recorded in Kazakhstan - Yomiuri - Residents of Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, have been exposed to levels of radiation equivalent to that of people near the center of Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb was dropped, due to the large

24) The Guardian (London) August 3, 2000 - Guardian Foreign Pages, Pg. 16 - Pakistan to sell nuclear material - Rory McCarthy in Islamabad and Julian Borger in Philadelphia - The military regime in Pakistan is to allow the export of radioactive material and equipment for nuclear reactors, in apparent breach of

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4) OTC 08/02 1451 Researchers Say Russian Permafrost Could Melt in ... MOSCOW (Aug. 2) XINHUA - The permafrost in northern Russia' s Komi republic could melt in the 23rd century, a British research center has warned. The average temperature in the North European part of Russia may rise by 4 degrees

7) Agence France Presse August 2, 2000, Wednesday 8:02 AM, Eastern Time - International news - 316 words - New toxic leak could threaten Rio de Janeiro's water supply - RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 2 - A new toxic leak from an underground pipeline owned by state-run Petrobras oil company could foul a tributary of the Gandu

8) Reuters Pipeline oil spill threatens Canadian town CANADA : August 2, 2000 CHETWYND - A pipeline in northeastern British Columbia ruptured early yesterday, spilling thousands of barrels of crude oil into a nearby river used as the region's water supply, officials said. Up to 10,700 barrels of oil may have spilled into the Pine River,

9) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 2, 2000 - ROUNDUP: Diesel oil spill stopped in Spain - Madrid - Workers in central Spain Wednesday managed to block the advance of a diesel oil spill of 250,000 litres, which had contaminated a 10-kilometre stretch of the Tajo River, radio reports said. The oil had leaked from a tank at the

15) Deutsche Presse-Agentur August 2, 2000 - China develops GM potato in bid to prevent disease - Beijing - Chinese scientists have developed a genetically modified potato capable of protecting people against the hepatitis B virus, state media reported on Wednesday. The new potato contains a gene from a protein

17) Foreign Report August 3, 2000 - Vol. 26; No. 3 - 356 words - More Indian nuclear tests? - Foreign Report has learned that the cia has reported to the White House its concerns that India may be preparing for another series of nuclear tests. In May 1998, India conducted tests that shattered the nuclear ambiguity that

30) The Vancouver Sun August 2, 2000, - Food; C3 - 159 words - Canada sets national organic standard - TORONTO - TORONTO -- Canada is one of the first countries in the world to come up with a definition for organic food, says a report in the food trade magazine Canadian Grocer. After years of effort by

33) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) August 02, 2000, - Pg. 13 - 545 words - News: Fertility 2000: Chemicals are threat to unborn daughters - By Roger Highfield - EVIDENCE that exposure of pregnant women to chemicals in the environment could age the ovaries of their unborn daughters has been found by a British study. Scientists are