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CLIMATE CHANGE

1. Deutsche Presse-Agentur December 10, 2003, Honda develops home energy station for hydrogen production DATELINE: Tokyo BODY: Honda has developed a home energy station (HES)for the production of hydrogen needed for fuel cell cars, the Japanese producer has announced. The HESstation produces enough energy to provide one tank full of hydrogen for the...
2. The Guardian (London) December 10, 2003 Guardian Home Pages, Pg. 3 Climate change doubles Britain's stormy weather BYLINE: Paul Brown in Milan BODY: Britain has become twice as stormy in the past 50 years as climate change has forced the deep depressions that used to hit Iceland further south, it was revealed yesterday. In a second disturbing...
3. The Independent (London) December 10, 2003, NEWS; Pg. 2 VOW TO CUT GREENHOUSE GAS DIVIDES MINISTERS BYLINE: MICHAEL MCCARTHY ENVIRONMENT EDITOR BODY: TWO OF the Government's senior ministers are locked in a struggle over Labour's most ambitious environmental pledge - the manifesto commitment to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, the principal gas...
4. THE ELECTRICITY DAILY December 10, 2003, Vol. 21, No. 111 World Bank: Greenhouse Trades Double in 2003 BODY: The World Bank has reported that greenhouse gas emission reduction transactions more than doubled in 2003 for the second consecutive year. The bank found that 70 million tons of emission reductions were traded as of November 2003...

FORESTS

5) The New York Times December 10, 2003, Late Edition - Final Section A; Page 1; Column 4; Foreign Desk Seeking Balance: Growth vs. Culture in Amazon BYLINE: By JUAN FORERO
DATELINE: PUMPUENTSA, Ecuador BODY: As international energy companies move into the Amazon basin to tap some of the last untouched oil and natural gas reserves, more and more...

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6) The Vancouver Sun (British Columbia) December 10, 2003
Final Edition News; Pg. A8 MP finds fault with deal to save old forest: Not enough conservation, Charles Caccia says
SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen BYLINE: Kate Jaimet DATELINE:
OTTAWA BODY: OTTAWA -- The chairman of the House of Commons environment committee on Tuesday came out against a deal...

7) Asia Pulse December 10, 2003 INDONESIAN GOVT FORMS TASK FORCE TO DEAL WITH ILLEGAL LOGGING DATELINE: JAKARTA, Dec 10 BODY: The Ministry of Forestry, the Riau provincial
administration and the Pelalawan regency administration
have set up a task force to deal with illegal logging in
Tesso Nilo forests, Riau. The task force, in association...

GENETIC ENGINEERING

8) THE KOREA HERALD December 11, 2003, Cattle resistant to mad cow disease BYLINE: By Seo Ji-eun BODY: A group of
Korean scientists have bred genetically altered cattle
resistant to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known
as "mad cow disease."
Researchers from Seoul National University announced...

9) Los Angeles Times December 10, 2003 Home Edition Main
News; Part 1; Page 14; Foreign Desk THE WORLD; U.N.
Postpones Negotiations on Treaty to Ban Human Cloning
BYLINE: From Reuters DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS BODY: The
U.N. General Assembly decided Tuesday to put off for a year negotiations on a treaty banning human cloning. All 191...

10) Los Angeles Times December 10, 2003 Home Edition Main
News; Part 1; Page 31; National Desk THE NATION; In
Reversal, FDA Says It Will Not Regulate Bioengineered Fish; The agency won't monitor GloFish, which go on sale Jan. 5
in every state but California. BYLINE: Kenneth R. Weiss,
Times Staff Writer BODY: The U.S. Food and Drug...

11) Agence France Presse December 10, 2003 US defends GM trees in row at UN climate talks BYLINE: RICHARD INGHAM DATELINE: MILAN, Dec 10 BODY: The United States and Europe, already
fiercely at odds over genetically modified food, skirmished over GM trees at United Nations talks here on the future of the Kyoto Protocol, sources said Wednesday. The US...

NUCLEAR POWER

12) Korea Times December 11, 2003, Gov't Seeks Second Site for Nuclear Waste Dump BODY: The government on Wednesday
abandoned its hard-line stance on building the nation's
first permanent radioactive waste repository on Wido, an
islet off the coast of Puan County in North Cholla Province. Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy, Yoon Jin-sik,...

13) Los Angeles Times December 10, 2003 Ventura County Edition California Metro; Part 2; Page 1; Metro Desk Field Lab
Cleanup Criticized; EPA says the standards at the
Rocketdyne site near Simi Valley don't meet U.S. criteria. BYLINE: Gregory W. Griggs, Times Staff Writer BODY:
Ongoing cleanup operations at Rocketdyne's Santa Susana...

OCEANS

14) Agence France Presse December 10, 2003 East Asia to adopt new plan to save seas BYLINE: LAWRENCE BARTLETT DATELINE:
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 BODY: A strategy for the sustainable
development of East Asia's seas is set to be adopted by 12 countries Friday, after years of research produced a stark warning that environmental degradation threatens entire...

15) French trawlers lead EU quota cut protest PARIS, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Fishermen disrupted major French ports on
Wednesday in protest at proposed hefty cuts to EU fishing
quotas they say pose a fresh threat to their already
stricken industry. Fishermen formed barriers with their
trawlers to stop other vessels entering the ports....

16) The New Zealand Herald December 10, 2003 NEWS; General Councils baulk over fisheries divvy-up BODY: Regional
councils are warning they want no role in allocating marine farming space to iwi - the sweetener the Government hopes
may alleviate anger over its foreshore and seabed plans, a leaked report reveals. They also have issues with other...

17) The Scotsman, UK, December 10, 2003 -- Minister's Pledge on Fishing Quotas By Pippa Crerar and Trevor Mason, Political Staff, PA News Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw today
pledged to try to ôrein backoe any European Union proposals to cut fishing quotas for 2004 that are deemed excessive.
Ahead of next weekÆs Council of Ministers meeting to...

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TOXICS

(Greenpeace)
18) Gulf News December 10, 2003 465 words PROTESTERS FACE
ARREST IN MUMBAI BYLINE: Pamela Raghunath, Correspondent
BODY: Greenpeace activists aboard the Rainbow Warrior, who are in India to protest against big ship owners turning
Gujarat's Alang port into a toxic dumpyard, are not
permitted to disembark in Mumbai. Consequently, 11...

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19) The Economic Times December 10, 2003 TOUGHER ACT FOR COLA GIANTS BYLINE: Dhiman Chattopadhyay BODY: : West Bengal's
two Coca-Cola bottling plants and the only Pepsico unit
will soon come under the Hazardous Waste Management Act.
The units now will have to ensure that the harmful sludge generated is kept within the factory confines - in a...

20) New Straits Times (Malaysia) December 10, 2003, Nation; Pg. 14 Organic farming being promoted BYLINE: By June Ramli BODY: PUTRAJAYA, Tues. - The Agricultural Ministry is going all out to introduce organic vegetables on a nationwide
basis to ensure consumers are supplied with produce that
are free of pesticides, its Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mohd...

21) The Scotsman, UK, December 10, 2003 -- Call to Ban Burning of Plastic Farm Waste By Amanda Brown, Environment
Correspondent, PA News Burning of plastic agricultural
waste could more than double the UKÆs emissions of dioxins, a trade association warned today. The Environmental
Services Association has written to Elliot Morley, Minister...

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22) The Washington Post December 10, 2003, Final Edition A SECTION; Pg. A02 Report Cites 10 States' Mercury Pollution; Environmental Advocacy Group Uses EPA Data to Pinpoint 'Hot Spots' BYLINE: Eric Pianin, Washington Post Staff Writer
BODY: Ten states, including Maryland, have pockets of
airborne mercury pollution that pose serious public health...

X-OTHER-X

23) The Washington Post December 10, 2003, Final Edition A SECTION; Pg. A18 Thais Crack Down on Wildlife Trafficking; Search for Endangered Species Nets More Than 33,000 Animals in Six Weeks BYLINE: Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post
Foreign Service DATELINE: BANGKOK BODY: Raids at private
homes and zoos here during the past six weeks have exposed...

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