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CLIMATE CHANGE

1. Courier Mail (Queensland, Australia) December 11, 2003 NEWS; Pg. 5 Reef faces grim outlook BYLINE: Brendan O'Malley BODY: INSHORE areas of the Great Barrier Reef will turn into giant green beds of algae if water temperatures rise another two degrees, a climate change report has found. The report concluded that, although some coral species had...
2. Globe and Mail, Canada, December 11, 2003 Climate an issue of rights, Inuit say By CHRISTINE BOYD Thursday, December 11, 2003 - Page A7 The world's Inuit intend to launch a human-rights case against the United States, condemning its role in the global warming that they say threatens them with extinction. Inuit Circumpolar Conference, which...

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3) The Guardian (London) December 11, 2003 SECTION: Guardian Foreign Pages, Pg. 14 LENGTH: 561 words HEADLINE: Extreme
weather of climate change gives insurers a costly headache BYLINE: Paul Brown in Milan BODY: Economic losses in Europe because of the summer drought exceeded pounds 7bn in the
agriculture sector alone because of loss of crops and...

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4) Agence France Presse December 11, 2003 Disease threat will worsen as global warming bites: WHO DATELINE: MILAN, Dec 11 BODY: Diarrhoea, malaria and dengue fever will surge and
swathes of southern Asia are likely to be hit by
malnutrition as a result of global warming, the World
Health Organisation (WHO) warned Thursday at the UN's...

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5) The Independent (London) December 11, 2003, FEATURES; Pg. 2,3 1754 words COVER STORY: IT IS ONE OF MANKIND'S FINAL
FRONTIERS, A PLACE OF EXTREME COLD AND EXTRAORDINARY
BEAUTY. BUT THE NORTH POLE'S ICECAP IS THAWING FAST. AND
MANY OF US WILL LIVE TO SEE IT DISAPPEAR ALTOGETHER BYLINE: STEVE CONNOR HIGHLIGHT: Going with the floe: two of the...

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?storyG2049

FORESTS

6) XINHUA December 11, 2003, Afghanistan to create national park for preserving war-torn environment BODY: KABUL, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) --Afghanistan has a plan to create a national park in an eastern province as a showcase to prevent
further degradation of country's natural resources after
over two decades of war, officials said here Thursday. The...

7) The Vancouver Sun (British Columbia) December 11, 2003
Final Edition Editorial; Stephen Hume; Pg. A17 Cathedral
Grove should be preserved as a park, not a parking lot
SOURCE: Vancouver Sun BYLINE: Stephen Hume BODY: Joyce
Murray is supposed to be responsible for protection of the province's land, air, water and wildlife resources, but she...

8) Asia Pulse December 11, 2003 GERMANY OFFERS INDONESIA DNS SWAP WORTH US$400 MLN DATELINE: JAKARTA, Dec 11 BODY: The
German government has offered the Indonesian government a
debt-for-nature swap worth US$400 million for conservation of what was once a peat land in Kalimantan. "The German
offer has already been made to the forestry minister, but...

9) The Hindu December 11, 2003 VS SEEKS ACTION AGAINST FOREST POACHING BYLINE: From Our Special Correspondent BODY: The
Leader of the Opposition, V.S. Achuthanandan, has urged the Chief Minister to take urgent steps to save the rainforests forming part of the Silent Valley National Park. In a
statement here today, Mr. Achuthanandan said though the...

10) New Straits Times (Malaysia) December 11, 2003, Nation; Pg. 15 10 per cent of forest flora, fauna face extinction
BODY: KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. - Forest clearing in the tropical regions may lead to the extinction of between five and 10
per cent of forest species within 30 years. This will lead to a significant loss in nature's biological diversity,...

MILITARY

11) Sweden to fund new Blix-led weapons body By Patrick
McLoughlin STOCKHOLM, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The Swedish
government said on Thursday it had decided to finance an
independent international commission on weapons of mass
destruction to be led by former chief U.N. weapons
inspector Hans Blix. Sweden's contribution of 13 million...

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12) The Herald (Glasgow) December 11, 2003 Pg. 7 294 words Safety fears over nuclear subs work BYLINE: Raymond Duncan BODY: THE Ministry of Defence is under pressure to prove the safety of its dismantling process for redundant nuclear
submarines after it was labelled "entirely new, extensive, and untried". Edinburgh Council has raised concerns over...

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http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/6123.html

13) The Associated Press December 11, 2003, Military returns to Kauai to test missile defense system BYLINE: By B.J.
REYES, Associated Press Writer DATELINE: HONOLULU BODY:
Six months after a missile fired from sea failed to connect with an airborne target in a test of a ballistic missile
defense system, military officials have returned to try...

NUCLEAR POWER

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14) Prague Post, December 11, 2003 -- Towns resist nuclear waste dumps Exporting radioactive material to Russia no
longer an option By Kevin Livingston Staff Writer, The
Prague Post (December 11, 2003) Few issues can galvanize a community more than the threat of becoming the nation's
nuclear waste dump. So when the government's Radioactive...

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15) Asia Pulse December 11, 2003 KOREAN COUNTY MUST VOTE ON NUKE WASTE FACILITY, OFFICIAL SAYS DATELINE: SEOUL, Dec 11 BODY: If a referendum in South Korea's Buan County over the introduction of a controversial nuclear waste dump does not take place, the government will enforce its construction in the county as scheduled, an official at the Ministry of...

16) The Scotsman, UK, December 11, 2003 -- Ministers Challenged on Nuclear Power By Anthony Looch, Lords Staff, PA News The Government was today accused of ôburying its headoe in the sand, over the issue of nuclear power. During the Energy
Billæs Lords second reading debate, Baroness Miller of
Hendon, for Tories, said: ôThe whole tenor of this Bill is...

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OCEANS

17) The Guardian (London) December 11, 2003 Guardian Home
Pages, Pg. 11 French port blockade sees ferries cancelled
BYLINE: Rebecca Allison BODY: Thousands of Channel ferry
passengers faced severe disruption yesterday when French
fishermen blockaded the port of Calais in protest at
proposed EU cuts in their catch quotas. The industrial...

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1104199,00.html

TOXICS

18) Los Angeles Times December 11, 2003 Home Edition Main
News; Part 1; Page 17; National Desk THE NATION; Changes in Fish Tied to Feedlots BYLINE: Marla Cone, Times Staff Writer BODY: Hormones that leak into streams from cattle feedlots are altering the sexual characteristics of wild fish,
demasculinizing the males and defeminizing the females,...

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