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Bush Is Not Eco-Friendly
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It's beyond serious dispute that the Bush White House is dismantling 30 years of bipartisan environmental progress, in defiance of law, scientific understanding, popular sentiment and common sense. The Bush
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administration's horrific environmental reputation isn't just a bad rap. The environmental gains Americans have enjoyed for years prove that vigorous protection of our natural resources is both effective and consistent with economic prosperity. full story
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Japan Set To Sell Tons Of Whale Meat Hunted Under "Research Program"
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Thousands of tons of meat from whales hunted under a government backed research program will start arriving in Japanese markets and canneries this week in an annual sale expected to raise 3.36 billion yen
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(US$33.3 million) to help fund the program, long denounced by environmentalists as a front for commercial whaling. full story
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Extinction Looms For
Deep-Sea Fish Species
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Stocks of deep-sea fish in waters off Britain which have been commercially fished for only 12 years are so depleted that they must be protected to avoid an environmental disaster, according to the
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conservationists WWF. The EU has ignored the advice of its own scientists to ban deep-sea fishing before it is too late and consumers are unaware they may be eating the last of the species. full story
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Venezuela's Indians Worry About Future Of Government Effort To Grant Property Titles
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Zacharia Valor, 46, a Pemon Indian, holds his bow and arrows and looks over the savannah near Pemon Indian village Vista Alegre, 373 miles from Caracas in Venezuela's southeastern savannah, June 17,
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2003. Venezuela's 1999 Constitution promoted by President Hugo Chavez granted the country's indigenous people the right to own ancestral land, and to be involved in demarcating that territory.
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Greenpeace Takes On Gunns Logging
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Environmentalists have escalated their battle against Tasmanian timber and logging group Gunns by putting the heat on the company's powerful Japanese customers. The Wilderness Society has recruited Greenpeace,
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the most rambunctious of all environmental campaign groups and one with extensive international connections, to take the fight to the big Japanese paper manufacturers and buyers of woodchips. full story
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Dying For Clean Water
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Lyn AlweisMaria Garcia and her son Jose live in Candelaria, Honduras, where Garcia has no choice but to use dirty, pesticide-laden water. Children in developing nations are especially vulnerable to waterborne
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diseases, and they are dying by the thousands every day. full story
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Bush Broke Promise on
Nuclear Waste Repository
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President Bush broke his campaign promise to Nevadans and rushed ahead with plans to develop a national nuclear waste repository in the state. The decision by the Bush administration to move forward on
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the Yucca Mountain project has serious consequences not only for Nevada, but for the 38 million Americans who live within a mile of the nation's highways and rail lines, Speaker Richard Perkins said. full story
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WWF Warns of Dolphin Slaughter
in Mediterranean
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Illegal driftnets cast by Moroccan, French and Italian fishermen continue to kill thousands of dolphins in the Mediterranean each year despite an EU ban on the practice, the environmental group WWF warned
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Thursday. An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 dolphins are caught annually in the Alboran Sea off the coast of Morocco, which comprises just three percent of the Mediterranean, according to a new WWF report that named a fleet of 177 Moroccan fishing vessels as the deadliest threat to marine life in the area. full story
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Florida: To Save or to Sell?
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I guess you should expect this from the state that simultaneously elected Bush and Gore President: Florida is doing a great job of repairing past development mistakes while allowing tourism to foment, well, the
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same mistakes. In an admirable and difficult U-turn, Floridians paved the way for Everglades restoration, which is moving forward despite legislative setbacks. But the state government is pushing for yet more of us to visit—70 million last year!—and to stay, thereby feeding the very sprawl that has caused many of the problems.
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Climate Linked To
Reproduction Of Right Whales
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The highly endangered North Atlantic right whale population is facing a difficult journey to recovery. That recovery may become even more precarious if North Atlantic climate takes a turn for the worse, according
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to Cornell University ecologists. They say that winter atmospheric conditions over the North Atlantic affect the abundance of zooplankton eaten by right whales, one of the most endangered species of marine mammal. full story
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Brazil's Environmentalists Crying Foul
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The environmental movement celebrated when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected Brazil's president in October last year. More than a year later, though, that relationship is in danger of falling apart, with
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environmentalists talking of betrayal. On virtually every major issue — from Amazon deforestation and genetically modified food to nuclear power and squatter invasions of national parks —
Mr. da Silva has turned his back.. full story
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Global Warming Gas Seen
Increasing Dramatically
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Worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide,considered a culprit in global warming, are expected to increase by 3.5 billion tonnes, or 50 percent, annually by the year 2020, an executive for ExxonMobil Corp said
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on Wednesday. full story
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Oil Drilling Gives Cancer Risk
To N.Sea Fish
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Pollution from the oil platforms in the North Sea may be raising risks of cancer in fish, a Norwegian-led study showed on Thursday. "Overall chemical contamination from the oil industry in the North Sea is very low,
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but in some fish there is a long-term effect on DNA that might in the worst case cause cancer," said Jarle Klungsoyr of Norway's Institute of Marine Research. full story
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Over 100,000 March
Against Bush in London
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Around 100,000 protesters marched through London and tore down a mock statue of visiting President Bush Thursday, many of them convinced his policies were to blame for anti-British bombs in Turkey.
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Demonstrators of all ages beat drums and blew whistles along a 3-mile route that took them past parliament and the end of Downing Street, where crowds paused to jeer toward Prime Minister Tony Blair's office. full story
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Air Pollution Damages Brain, Heart
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Air pollution may cause brain damage similar to Alzheimer's disease, as well as heart problems, two new studies suggest. Dogs exposed to air pollution were found to develop damaged brain cell genes
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in as little as four weeks, according to research presented April 15 at the Experimental Biology 2003 conference in San Diego. full story
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Air pollution Doubles SARS Death Rates, Data Suggests
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A Chinese study has found SARS patients were twice as likely to die if they lived in polluted cities than places with fresher air. The finding suggests Canada's SARS death toll might have been lower if the
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outbreak had not struck Toronto, where smog levels are the highest in the country. full story
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Greenpeace Under Attack By UN And US
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One of the world's most prominent and effective non-governmental organizations, Greenpeace, is coming under attack at both the United Nations and by the U.S. Justice Department in Washington,
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D.C. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is moving to lift Greenpeace's "consultative status," which permits the environmental group to submit briefs to and address the UN agency--responsible for ensuring "safer ships" and "cleaner seas"--on the grounds that the group practices unsafe seamanship. full story
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Coke On Trial As Indian Villagers Accuse Plant Of Sucking Them Dry
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The mighty Coca Cola corporation of America has given evidence to a small village council in southern India in an attempt to keep open a huge bottling factory which is threatened with closure following allegations
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that it is sucking the community dry. The village claims that Coca Cola's biggest bottling plant in India is draining water from their wells, drying up their ponds and adversely affecting the lives of more than 2,000 families who depend on the underground water for crops. full story
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Species Experts Fear New Extinctions
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Colombian spider monkeys, Galapagos snails, unique South African rabbits and one of the world’s largest freshwater fish are in stark danger of extinction, a nature body warned Tuesday. Also under threat
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of disappearing in the near future, according to the World Conservation Union, are the 21 species of albatross, dozens of types of shark and ray fish as well as Mediterranean dolphins. full story
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US Fails To Gain Exemption On Ozone-Harming Chemical
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Negotiators from the European Union and poor countries refused on Friday to exempt the United States from a requirement to phase out chemicals that destroy the ozone layer. The decision came at a technical meeting
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here on compliance with the sweeping 1989 environmental treaty called the Montreal Protocol. full story
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New Foreign Pests Invade U.S. Trees; Devastation Feared
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America's trees are under attack. Species by species, they're being invaded by insects and fungi, native and foreign. Scientists fear their loss will devastate suburban streets and upset the delicate ecological
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balance of many woodlands.... full story
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Bush Plan To Reduce Global Warming Could Devastate Sea Life
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A Bush Administration proposal to mitigate the effects of global warming by capturing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and injecting it into the deep sea could have disastrous effects on sea life,
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according to a University of Rhode Island researcher. "Increased CO2 in the oceans would result in decreases in the pH levels (the measure of acidity) of seawater, resulting in dramatic physiological effects on many species" full story
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The Energy Report
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Energy industries that have invested millions of dollars in lawmakers' campaigns would reap billions in tax breaks and potential new business from compromise Republican legislation. President Bush took
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office promising to develop a new energy policy. Since then, energy-related businesses have contributed nearly $70 million to lawmakers and political parties, with about three-fourths of it going to Republicans, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records by the Center for Responsive Politics. full story
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