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  • GE Contamination in Spain: A Warning for Europe - Greenpeace
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    April 04, 2006
    Contact: Gina Sanchez Greenpeace International Communications - Office: +31207182051 Mobile No. +316 2700 0064
    Vienna, 4 April 2006—The spiralling uptake of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops in Spain is causing massive genetic contamination, threatens the livelihood of farmers and urgently needs to be suspended, says Greenpeace. In a new report: ’Impossible Coexistence’, environmentalists (1) show how GE crops in Spain - the only EU country that grows Genetically (…)

  • Canned! Food Firms Bale Out of Whaling in Face of Global Consumer Protest - the Independent / UK
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 by the Independent / UK Canned! Food Firms Bale Out of Whaling in Face of Global Consumer Protest by David McNeill and Michael McCarthy
    Japan’s ruthless push for the return of commercial whaling received a significant setback yesterday when pressure from green campaigners forced five big food companies to pull out of supporting the Japanese whaling industry.
    The five firms, led by the Japanese seafood giant Nissui and its wholly-owned US frozen (…)

  • Noam Chomsky on Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Haiti, Democracy in Latin America and the Israeli Elections
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    From DEMOCRACYNOW !
    AMY GOODMAN: In his first broadcast interview upon the book’s publication, Chomsky spoke to us from our Boston studio on Friday.
    JUAN GONZALEZ: With public opposition to the Bush administration’s policies at record highs, I asked Professor Chomsky to talk about how it is that so much discontent with the government has not translated into larger political mobilization.
    NOAM CHOMSKY: First of all, on the fact that advertising is designed to undermine free markets, (…)

  • Biodiversity: Environmentalists, Indigenous People Disappointed by COP8
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Saturday, April 1, 2006 by the Inter Press Service Biodiversity: Environmentalists, Indigenous People Disappointed by COP8 by Mario Osava
    CURITIBA, Brazil - Environmental and indigenous activists are leaving the 8th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP8) with a sense of disappointment, because of the absence both of practical decisions and of their participation in key negotiations.
    COP8 was a "failure," according to Greenpeace (…)

  • Agent Orange: The Legacy of a Weapon of Mass Destruction, Jeremy Laurance reports from Ho Chi Minh C
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, April 1, 2006 by the Independent/UK
    Thirty-five years after the US sprayed the jungles of Vietnam with toxic defoliant, thousands of babies are still being born with horrific defects. But unlike the American veterans, no one in the war-ravaged country has received any compensation.
    On a table in the dimly lit room lay a small white bundle, tied with a silver ribbon. With a brilliant smile and a barked order, Professor Nguyen Thi Phuong had directed me to the morgue (…)

  • The Corporate Superpower of Superpowers by RALPH NADER (Counerpunch)
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    An Open Letter to New Exxon/Mobil CEO, Rex Tillerson
    April 1, 2006
    Mr. Tillerson:
    You have to be feeling pretty good about your new position heading the world’s largest oil and gas company. You stand astride the globe where, with few exceptions, the Congress is like putty in your hands, the White House is your House and the consuming public is powerless. Governments in the Third World may huff and puff, but Exxon/Mobil pretty much gets its way in dozens of arrangements completed and (…)

  • Antarctic Air is Warming Faster Than Rest of World by Mark Henderson The Times/UK
    31 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, March 31, 2006
    New finding could have implications for sea level rises
    AIR temperatures above the entire frozen continent of Antarctica have risen three times faster than the rest of the world during the past 30 years.
    While it is well established that temperatures are increasing rapidly in the Antarctic Peninsula, the land tongue that protrudes towards South America, the trend has been harder to confirm over the continent as a whole.
    Now analysis of weather (…)

  • ENVIRONMENT: Who Has Access to Biodiversity?
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mario Osava*
    RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 23 (Tierramérica) - Biologically mega-diverse countries, including Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, are calling for a binding global policy to regulate who has access to biodiversity. The proposal is up for discussion at an international environmental meeting this week in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, but the goal remains far out of reach.
    "The negotiation has been difficult and this process could take a couple more years," Hesiquio Benítez told (…)

  • Russia: 30,000 birds died of bird flu in 24 hours
    27 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    UPI - March 16, 2006
    Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reports that more than 30,000 birds have died of bird flu in southern Russia in the past 24 hours. No specific strain was mentioned. "In Krasnodar Territory, 21,912 chickens have died over the last 24 hours, and the total number of dead birds has reached 350,288," a local emergencies ministry official was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti. In the North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, the official said, a further 10,818 birds have died in (…)

  • Groix Island - NO TO THE CODS BREEDING: SIGN THE PETITION !
    26 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Several people contacted us to ask if they could use our website to start a petition against a cods breeding project in the south of Groix Island (French west coast). We can only encourage this action and we have made contacts with several associations that will not fail to bring us support.
    ( image source : http://www.veganimal.info/article.php3?id_article=18 )
    “Waste from fish and food, chemical products used as disinfecting agents, antibiotics against parasites, steroids to produce (…)