AR-News: FW: (ENS) World News April 13, 2004

[jim robertson]

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>             CANADIAN SEALERS TAKE TO THE NEWFOUNDLAND ICE FLOES
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>             ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, April 13, 2004 (ENS) - The world's
>largest seal hunt officially opened Monday as some 12,000 sealers hit the
>ice of Newfoundland and Labrador with a bigger kill quota allowed than in
>past years. The International Fund for Animal Welfare, which is monitoring
>the hunt from the air and on the ice, says the annual event is cruel.
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>             DEADLY STORMS ACROSS THE PACIFIC
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>             NADI, Fiji, April 13, 2004 (ENS) - Fiji meteorologists are
>keeping a close watch on a tropical depression forming to the north of the
>island nation, just five days after a similar storm and strong winds 
>claimed
>10 lives and left nine other people missing. The National Weather
>Forecasting Centre in Nadi warned today that the islands could expect more
>flooding of low lying areas in isolated heavy rainfalls, easing by 
>Wednesday
>night.
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>             GREAT BRITAIN RATIFIES SEABIRD TREATY
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>             LONDON, UK, April 13, 2004 (ENS) - The British government and
>three of its overseas territories - the Falklands, British Antarctic
>Territory, and South Georgia/South Sandwich Islands - have ratified the
>Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. The government
>will take steps to reduce the 300,000 worldwide seabird deaths caused by
>longline fishing every year.
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>             ANALYSIS:
>             GLOBE 2004 SIGNALS NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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>             By Greg Helten
>             VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, April 13, 2004 (ENS) - 
>Some
>of the most innovative environmental technologies were on display, and more
>than 2,000 of the brightest corporate executives, government ministers, and
>thinkers in the world of sustainability were on hand here March 31 through
>April 2 at Globe 2004 - a biannual conference and trade show on the 
>business
>of the environment that attracts up to 10,000 visitors at a time.
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>             ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: APRIL 13, 2004
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>             Savannah River Workers Radiated, Records Falsified
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>             California Central Valley Air Extremely Smoggy
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>             Appeals Court Keeps Vehicles Off New Mexico Wilderness
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>             Bay Area Aquifer Cleanup Paid by 10 Firms
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>             Ohio Hazwaste Incinerator Fails Emissions Limits
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>             Pennsylvania Firm Charged in Multi-State Water Pollution
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>             Redford Voices Anti-Bush Environmental Ad

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