The Environment Digest
Contents of issue 1996 / 10

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Agriculture & Food

African countries plan to protect seeds  Researchers predict increases in crop yields  Cod and haddock declared endangered species  Report claims India risking famine  Norwegian "jury" rejects genetically engineered food  Scientists warned against organophosphates in 1951  Irradiated food being imported into UK

Conservation : Habitat

British government may reduce biodiversity spending  Conference hears of brownfields potential  Opposition to Army plans to increase training in Cumbria  Environmentalists campaign to save dry stone walls Draft hedgerow protection regulations criticised  Mining protesters dig up deputy Prime Minister's garden  Government to oppose home building on greenfield sites  Environment Agency challenges abstraction levels  France stops implementation of habitat directive  Bombay national park threatened by slums  Nepal to build world's tallest dam  Grenada call

Conservation : Species

Fish top endangered species list Sturgeon threatened by poaching  North Pacific fishermen plan to protect birds  Rare British birds breed well  "Extinct" mushroom found  Wild boars a problem in Germany  Group urges Burma tourism boycott  Australia to destroy rabbit population

Economics & Industry

World Bank admits environmental failings  Business committee urges better consultation  Report highlights greening of business parks  BP accused over Colombia  Fund ends PVC investments  German green jobs near million mark  Jump in US environmental technology exports

Energy

Trust to use low-energy bulbs  Labour to encourage renewable energy  Wind farm opens in Wales

Environmental Politics

British government "fails to put environment at the centre"  EU warns Eastern Europe to clean up environment  Greenpeace annual report  French Green coalition plan

Forests

Plan to double UK forests  Forest certification  Oregon forest saved  IMF action on Cambodian logging

General Reports

Disaster toll rising  More cautious estimate of world population growth  Warning of environmental wars  Australia living at the limits?

Global Warming

Industrialised states "will fail to meet greenhouse targets"  Will mid latitudes benefit?  Warming could accelerate peat decomposition  Historical carbon monoxide levels higher than expected

Nuclear Power

Aldermaston sued over contamination Dounreay questions  Italian nuclear ships scuttled?  Warning of military exercises in Chernobyl area  Chernobyl timber power plant plan  Trilateral agreement on Russian nuclear waste  Taiwan government pushes through nuclear project

Ozone layer

Tip of South America more exposed than ever  CFC smuggling a growing problem

Pollution

Seveso dioxin levels still dangerous  P&O to remove all PVC to reduce exposure

Pollution : Air

Pollution causes emergency jet landing UK strategy "not enough"  Costs of French air pollution  Gas flaring in Nigeria to end Smog harms foetuses  Tehran children's demonstration

Pollution : Water

Camelford leukaemia report  UK: reservoir plan and conservation call  UK government accused of negligence on North Sea pollution  Sea Empress bird toll  New UK shipping bill  Texas red tide  LA drought threat  Pacific sewage problem  Yangze plan

Transport

Traffic fumes linked to asthma  Coventry electric-car experiment  Devon roads protest  Criticism of proposed Hadrian's Wall canal  UK claims questioned  Salisbury bypass decision

Waste and Recycling

European can-recycling figures UK packaging concerns  US reaches target Galicia: Threat of disaster following garbage avalanche  New Indian rules







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