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BREAKING NEWS Fires break out in record heat wave in Bulgaria SOFIA (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 Fires broke out in farming areas of Bulgaria Wednesday as the country experienced some of its hottest weather in a century, according to the weather service. Record temperatures could mean Italy going tropical: weather office ROME (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 Italy is becoming increasingly hot with average June temperatures at their highest in more than half-a-century, suggesting the country's climate may be going tropical, the national meteorological bureau said Wednesday. Chemical-munching superbug cleans up polluted water PARIS (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 One of the biggest environmental headaches is vinyl chloride, a toxic compound which can seep into water tables from chemical plants or industrial users. |
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International court rejects Ireland's claim over Sellafield THE HAGUE (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 The International Court of Arbitration in the Hague on Wednesday rejected a claim by Ireland accusing Britain of withholding information about the operation of the Sellafield nuclear plant. EU adopts new rules on biotech foods, US unimpressed STRASBOURG (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 European lawmakers adopted Wednesday new rules on the labelling of genetically-modified foodstuffs, saying they hoped it would ease a fierce row with the US, but Washington remained unimpressed. New EU biotech laws inadequate: US official BRUSSELS (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 Washington will not abandon a WTO complaint over an EU ban on genetically-modified foodstuffs despite new legislation that paves the way for the moratorium to be lifted, a US official said Wednesday. Europe boils after global land temperatures rise to record level: WMO GENEVA (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 Average temperatures over land areas in the world climbed to the warmest level ever recorded in May, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday. EU moves to ease transatlantic row over biotech foods STRASBOURG (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 European lawmakers adopted Wednesday new rules on the labelling of genetically-modified foodstuffs, a key step towards lifting an EU ban on GM products which has sparked fierce US criticism. Euro deputies adopt law on GMOs, paving way to lift ban STRASBOURG (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 European lawmakers adopted Wednesday a new law on the labelling of genetically-modified foodstuffs, a key step towards lifting an EU ban on GM products which has sparked fierce US criticism. |
Yamaha to develop world's first methanol fuel cell for small motorbikes TOKYO (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 Japan's Yamaha Motor said Wednesday it plans to develop the world's first environmentally-friendly methanol fuel cell for small motorcycles. Floods displace 470,000 in northeastern India GUWAHATI, India (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 The number of people displaced by a new wave of flooding in northeastern India rose to 470,000 Wednesday as hundreds more villages were submerged, officials said. Japan should stay with International Whaling Commission: PM TOKYO (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday Japan should stay with the world's whaling body, spurning calls by some ruling-party lawmakers for it to quit the organisation in protest of a whaling ban. The Mekong's last dolphins on verge of extinction VOEN YANG, Cambodia (AFP) Jul 02, 2003 After being decimated by fishing nets and explosives, the last of the river dolphins living in this stretch of the Mekong along the Laos-Cambodia border now face being wiped out by the tourists who flock to see them. Cleaner Rhine brings good news for fish BONN (AFP) Jul 01, 2003 The powerful Rhine, once a polluted waterway through Germany's industrial heartland, is becoming cleaner and salmon and other fish are returning in numbers, an international commission reported Tuesday. German nuclear waste convoy leaves for Britain NECKARWESTHEIM, Germany (AFP) Jul 01, 2003 A convoy carrying nuclear waste set off Tuesday from the Neckarwestheim power station in southwest Germany bound for the Sellafield reprocessing centre in Britain, police said. |
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