The Environment
Digest
Contents of issue 1996 / 10
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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
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
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
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
Trust
to use low-energy bulbs Labour to encourage
renewable energy Wind farm opens in Wales
British government "fails to put
environment at the centre" EU warns Eastern
Europe to clean up environment Greenpeace
annual report French Green coalition plan
Plan
to double UK forests Forest certification
Oregon forest saved IMF action on Cambodian
logging
Disaster toll rising More
cautious estimate of world population growth
Warning of environmental wars Australia living
at the limits?
Industrialised states "will fail to
meet greenhouse targets" Will mid latitudes
benefit? Warming could accelerate peat
decomposition Historical carbon monoxide
levels higher than expected
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
Tip of South America more exposed
than ever CFC smuggling a growing problem
Seveso dioxin
levels still dangerous P&O to remove all
PVC to reduce exposure
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
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
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
European can-recycling figures
UK packaging concerns US reaches target
Galicia: Threat of disaster following garbage
avalanche New Indian rules
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