Sustainability and Justice in the High Seas
<p>Greenpeace Southeast Asia urged Philippine-based tuna canneries to step up improvements in their systems and business practices to address issues on labor rights, sustainability, and traceable produce
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Atomic flare up
FRANCE's nuclear testing shenanigans the Mururoa atoll have caused an international furore (see Down to Earth, 31, 1995). Among the most hostile ics of the French moves on the atol the
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Killer chlorine
Once hailed as a boon to health, chlorine is now charged with being carcinogenic, maiming the immune and the reproductive systems.
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Oil spoil
The planned scuttling of the superannuated Brent Spark oil rig sparks off an international protest
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Whaling out money
A 29ft rubber whale, Molly the Minke, is being paraded on the back of a truck in the UK. The float will go through 38 towns and cities before it gets shipped to Dublin for the International Whaling
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Israel in the dumps
ACTIVISTS of the environmental group - Greenpeace stopped a ship from dumping toxic wastes off Israel's coast. This incident occured in the first week of May, this year. To stall the
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Absolute nuclear power...
Non nuclear weapon nations are apprehensive about the efficacy of the Non Proliferation Treaty
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A hazardous voorkshop
The Dakar workshop on toxic waste trade left both the exporting countries and green activists fuming
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MONEYMAKERS
SAFE REACTORS: A new model of safer reactors is coming up, announced Framatome of France and Siemens of Germany. The 2 nuclear power reactor suppliers have joined hands to desigrethe
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Laying India to waste
Greenpeace sounds a red alert about toxic waste imports into India at workshops across the country
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Cyborg controversy
There's gaiety on the greens as the European Parliament drops a directive on patenting genetically engineered life forms