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CLIMATE CHANGE

1. The New York Times December 26, 2003, Late Edition - FinalSection A; Page 1; Column 4; Foreign Desk; Gas WellExplosion and Fumes Kill 191 in China BYLINE: By JOSEPH KAHN DATELINE: SHENZHEN, China, Friday, Dec. 26 BODY: At least191 people were killed and scores of others injured thisweek after an explosion rocked a natural gas field in...
2. UPDATE 4-China gas blow-out created 25-sq-km "death zone"By Tamora Vidaillet BEIJING, Dec 26 (Reuters) - A gas wellblow-out in southwest China turned a 25 square km (10 sqmiles) area into a death zone, killing nearly 200 people asthey slept or scrambled to escape a cloud of toxic fumes,officials and state media said on Friday. Bodies of farmers...
3. Irish Independent December 24, 2003; BIGGEST WIND FARM INEUROPE GIVEN THE GO-AHEAD BODY: THE COMPANY behind thecontroversial Derrybrien wind farm project in Galway haswon a planning appeal to build the largest wind farm inEurope. ESB subsidiary Hibernian Wind said yesterday itwould develop a Euro 300m wind farm at Bellacorick in Co...
4. The New York Times December 25, 2003, Late Edition - FinalSection A; Page 21; Column 1; National Desk; Soot Is Citedas Big Factor in Global Warming BYLINE: AP DATELINE:WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 BODY: NASA scientists say soot, mostlyfrom diesel engines, is causing as much as a quarter of allobserved global warming by reducing the ability of snow and...
5. The Baltimore Sun, USA, Online, Originally publishedDecember 26, 2003, 2:26 AM EST; U.S. Enhances Air Monitorsin 30 Cities By LARRY MARGASAK Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON -- Homeland Security officials have enhancedtheir ability to monitor the air for biological warfareagents in 30 cities, one of several ways the government is...

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6) The Saigon Times Daily December 23, 2003; GROUNDED TANKERSURRENDERS CARGO BYLINE: THANH HAI BODY: (SGT-DANANG)Salvage workers in Danang are pumping gasoline and dieseloil from the Cuu Long 01, a tanker at risk of sinking andcausing a major oil spill after running aground just offLien Chieu Port. The events leading up to the grounding...

FORESTS

7) [http://www.Freep.com] Detroit Free Press December 24,2003 1 EDITION, 939 words; Illegal mining decimating raregorillas in the Congo BYLINE: BY SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN; FREEPRESS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT DATELINE: KAHUZI-BIEGA NATIONALPARK, Democratic Republic of Congo BODY: Chimanuka is ashy, bamboo- chewing black mountain gorilla with big, soft...

8) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Rare US-bred African bongosto return to Kenya DATELINE: NAIROBI, Dec 24 BODY: A groupof mountain bongos, rare African antelopes bred in theUnited States, will be returned in January to theiroriginal habitat in Kenya where the animals are nowextinct, conservationists said Wednesday. Twenty young...

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9) The New York Times December 24, 2003, Late Edition - Final Section A; Page 14; Column 6; National Desk, 505 wordsHEADLINE: Administration Is Exempting Alaska Forest FromProtection BYLINE: By JENNIFER 8. LEE DATELINE: WASHINGTON,Dec. 23 BODY: The Bush administration announced on Tuesdaythat the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the largest in...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/24/politics/24ENVI.html?ex72846800&en|71daecabb49fc1&eiP62&partner=GOOGLE

GENETIC ENGINEERING

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10) People's Daily, China, Online, Last updated at: (BeijingTime) Friday, December 26, 2003; Nestle in hot water overGMOs Zhu Yanling, a mother in Shanghai was once a loyalconsumer of brands of Nestle, the Switerland- based foodgiant. She only used Nestle products to feed her baby overthe past three years. Zhu Yanling, a mother in Shanghai was...

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http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200312/26/eng20031226_131283.shtml

MILITARY

11) [http://www.washingtonpost.com] The Washington PostDecember 24, 2003, Final Edition, A Section; A01; WhiteHouse Faulted on Uranium Claim; Intelligence WarningsDisregarded, President's Advisory Board Says BYLINE: WalterPincus, Washington Post Staff Writer BODY: The President'sForeign Intelligence Advisory Board has concluded that the...

12) Deutsche Presse-Agentur December 24, 2003, Army takes fullcontrol of Pakistan's nuclear facilities DATELINE: Islamabad
BODY: Pakistan's army has taken "full control" of thenuclear programme of the country which is beinginvestigated for proliferating nuclear technology, a newsreport said on Wednesday. Islamabad's daily The News...

NUCLEAR POWER

13) TASS HEADLINE: Highly enriched uranium shipped fromBulgaria to Russia BYLINE: By Vladimir Abrosimov DATELINE:SOFIA, December 24 BODY: A 17- kilogram consignment ofhighly enriched uranium was shipped from Bulgaria to Russia.
Assemblies with nuclear fuel were loaded on to a plane thathad arrived from Russia. It flew from the airport of Gorna...

14) Business Daily Update December 24, 2003 CHINA WELCOMESFOREIGN BIDS FOR NUKE PLANTS IN 2004 BODY: Author: China isexpected to invite foreign companies early next year to bidfor the design and construction of four new nuclear powergenerators that involve contracts worth billions of USdollars. Two major domestic nuclear power firms, China...

15) TASS HEADLINE: Quake kills 40,000 in Iran's city of BamDATELINE: TEHRAN, December 26 BODY: The earthquake that hitIran's city of Bam in the southeast of the country early onFriday, killed about 40,000 people, preliminary reportssaid. The 6.9-magnitude tremor rocked the city at dawn,when it was mostly asleep. It reduced to rubble some 90...

16) International Herald Tribune (Herald Asahi) December 24,2003 UTILITY ABANDONS NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT BODY: The AsahiShimbun NIIGATA-Tohoku Electric Power Co. is pulling theplug on a nuclear power project that had been planned forthe town of Maki in Niigata Prefecture, sources said Tuesday
The official announcement is expected today The company's...

OCEANS

17) AAP NEWSFEED HEADLINE: Qld: Old turtle brings new hope forlongevity of species BYLINE: By Rosemary Desmond DATELINE:BRISBANE, Dec 24 BODY: A 60- year-old loggerhead turtle hasreturned to Queensland to nest, bringing new hope for theendangered species. The loggerhead turtle, known as X198,has hauled herself up the beach at Mon Repos, near...

18) Deutsche Presse-Agentur HEADLINE: Highly endangered seacow killed in Vietnam DATELINE: Hanoi BODY: A highlyendangered sea cow was killed by fishermen in Vietnam andwashed up on a beach, a local official said Friday. The400-kilogram dugong, or sea cow, was found entangled in afishing net on a beach on Phu Quoc island Thursday, said...

TOXICS

19) Los Angeles Times December 25, 2003 Home EditionCalifornia Metro; Part 2; Page 13; Editorial Pages Desk;Commentary; Bad Farm Policies Starve Millions; The 'exportmodel of agriculture' is a globally destructive force. BYLINE: Raj Patel, Raj Patel is a policy analyst at theInstitute for Food and, Development Policy, also known as...

X-OTHER-X

20) [http://www.newsday.com] Newsday (New York) December 24,2003 NASSAU AND SUFFOLK EDITION FOOD & DINING, Pg. B26; REDWHITE & BELUGA; American caviar makes gains as importedvarieties become more scarce and even costlier BYLINE: ByRamin Ganeshram. Ramin Ganeshram is a freelance writer.BODY:For holiday revelers seeking a bit of luxury, the...

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