Environment News Service News Index October 2004

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Environment News Service News Index

October 2004

AmeriScan: October 29, 2004
Citizens Petition New York Attorney General to Open 9-11 Inquiry
Weather Pounds Shipwreck Against South Africa's Wild Coast
UK Unveils Global Energy Strategy But Home Emissions Higher
European Parliament Votes to Protect Whales From Sonar
AmeriScan: October 28, 2004
New European Executive Rejected by Parliament
Russians Petition Hungary to Keep Nuclear Waste at Home
Ontario First in North America With Law to Ban Pit Bulls
Analysis: Capitalism Could Conserve the Planet or Consume It
AmeriScan: October 27, 2004
United Nations Stretches Helping Hands to Darfur
European Commission OKs Transgenic Corn for Human Food
Canada Embraces E-Waste Recycling
Tool-Making Chimps Live in Rainforest Saved From Logging
AmeriScan: October 26, 2004
Leavitt Defends Bush Environmental Record
U.S., Japan to Resume Beef Trade After Mad Cow Scare
Loss of Europe's Deadwood Harms Forest Species
Cyanide Leak at One Australian Gold Mine Could Block Another
AmeriScan: October 25, 2004
Earthquakes, Typhoons Raise Nuclear Fears
Russian Duma Votes to Ratify Climate Protocol
Bush Administration Backs Solar Development on Public Lands
Earth Drags Space and Time Around Itself as It Turns
AmeriScan: October 21, 2004
WWF: Human Ecological Debt Now Too Great to Repay
Flawed U.S. Food Recalls Leave Unsafe Food on Shelves
Mobile Schools Set up for Marsh Arabs
30 Thai Tigers Die of Bird Flu, 30 More to Be Culled
AmeriScan: October 20, 2004
Chemical Cocktail Found in Blood of European Ministers
$100 Million Fuels U.S. Progress Along Hydrogen Highway
Big Production Incentive Energizes Canada's Wind Industry
INSIGHTS: The Politics of Wilderness Protection
AmeriScan: October 19, 2004
World's Amphibians Face Bleak Future
Sustainable Development Blocked by Ruinous Natural Disasters
Space Focus Shifts to Environment, Development
Japanese Charged With Whaling Inside Australian Sanctuary
AmeriScan: October 18, 2004
Water Monitors Pool Data for Global Water Quality Snapshot
Vibration Worries Delay Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Review
Indonesian Orangutans Focus of Thai Smuggling Case
EU Comes to the Rescue of Zakynthos Loggerhead Turtles
AmeriScan: October 15, 2004
Global Endangered Species Trade Rules Set for Two Years
Florida Aims to Accelerate Everglades Restoration
Mobile Phone Use Linked to Brain Tumors
Biodiversity for Food Security Theme of World Food Day
AmeriScan: October 14, 2004
U.S. Asks Donors to Fund Iraqi Water and Power Reconstruction
Polluters Face Fewer Lawsuits Under Bush EPA
EU Environment Ministers Limit Most Destructive Climate Gases
Kyrgyzstan Blocks British Nuclear Shipments
AmeriScan: October 13, 2004
CITES Safeguards Freshwater Turtles, Reef Fish, Fragrant Wood
New Wildlife Refuge to Conserve Minnesota Tallgrass Prairie
Developing Countries Voluntarily Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions
INSIGHTS: Jay-Z and Other Artists Need To Step Up Against Dog Fighting
AmeriScan: October 12, 2004
Kerry Promotes Plan for Energy Independence
Elephant Ivory Ban Upheld, Rhino Trade Allowed By CITES
Jamaica Conserves Forests With Debt-for-Nature Pacts
Mapping Human Impact on Air Quality
AmeriScan: October 11, 2004
Presidential Debaters Clash on Environment
Elephant Conservation Move Rejected by CITES Delegates
Women Assume Responsibility for the Environment
British Birds Need Help to Survive Wind Turbines, Farms
AmeriScan: October 8, 2004
Environmental Activist Maathai of Kenya Wins Peace Prize
Governments Safeguard Sturgeon, Tropical Hardwood
Illegal Skin Trade Pushes Asia's Big Cats to the Brink
Year of Rice Science Contest Winners Chosen
AmeriScan: October 7, 2004
Iraqi Environment Minister Seeks Suppport in Washington
CITGO Petroleum Agrees to Emissions Cleanup in Five States
Iowa's First Orangutans Arrive at Great Ape Trust
India Pioneers Rainwater Harvesting
AmeriScan: October 6, 2004
Iraqi Ports Blocked, Polluted by Hundreds of Shipwrecks
Annan Reports Progress in Action to Combat Landmines
Bush Officials Halt Montana Gas Drilling Plan
Pre-Election Battle Axes Clash Over Tasmania's Tall Trees
AmeriScan: October 5, 2004
Illicit Wildlife Trade Organized and Dangerous, CITES Told
Greenpeacers Blockade Plutonium Transport Road in France
Arctic Sea Ice Decline Accelerates
Old Growth Logging in Biscuit Fire Area Denounced
AmeriScan: October 4, 2004
Explosive Eruption Forecast for Mount St. Helens
Smog Cleanup Stalled in Many U.S. Cities
Howard Government Offered Oil Firm Millions to Sue Greenpeace
Rarest of All Endangered Whales Found in North Pacific
AmeriScan: October 1, 2004
Debaters: Nuclear Proliferation Single Most Serious Threat
Russian Government Approves Kyoto Climate Protocol
Greenpeacers Against Biotech Foods Chain Up to Bayer India
Vancouver-Seattle Air Pollution Harming Health, Environment





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