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E-mail Edition 02/27/04
Pentagon downplays report identifying climate change as national security threat
The Pentagon last year asked two private consultants to consider the potential global impacts of an abrupt and severe change in the world's climate. Which regions might be hurt the worst, they asked, and what would that mean for U.S. national security? The scenario sketched out in the report, "Imagining the Unthinkable," may surprise some, though it seems to have been largely discounted by the official who ordered the report.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-27/s_13527.asp

Disputes stall Malaysia talks on biotech exports
Europe and developing countries clashed with the United States Thursday about the global trade in genetically modified commodities, with the former demanding strict labeling and liability laws and the latter seeking looser guidelines.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-27/s_13537.asp

First Michigan wolverine spotted in 200 years
A biologist has confirmed the sighting of a real Michigan wolverine, about 200 years after the species was last seen in the state that uses the small but ferocious animal as its unofficial nickname.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-27/s_13529.asp

U.S. oil companies eye return to Libya after 18 years
U.S. oil companies with holdings in Libya received White House permission Thursday to negotiate the resumption of once-lucrative deals stalled by bilateral sanctions imposed in 1986.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-27/s_13534.asp

Bangladesh begins tiger census in fragile wetlands
Men in fiberglass vests fanned out across mangrove swamps in Bangladesh on Thursday carrying rifles, firecrackers and nylon nets to count tigers in the home of the world's largest population of the big cats.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-27/s_13528.asp

'Hydrogen highway' by 2010 says California official
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's top environmental aide told state lawmakers the governor's vision of a "hydrogen highway" that would usher in an age of cleaner cars is realistic by 2010, and won't even cost the state much money.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-27/s_13532.asp

Insect-busting gadgets on display at mosquito control conference
Herb Nyberg turned his son's school science fair project into a cottage industry — the Larvasonic, a device that uses pulses of sound to kill mosquito larva growing in standing water.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-27/s_13536.asp

Kyrgyz premier vows to prevent German uranium contract
Kyrgyzstan's prime minister vowed Thursday to prevent this former Soviet republic from further becoming a uranium wasteland, following public outcry protesting a Kyrgyz company's plans to process uranium from Germany.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-27/s_13535.asp

Nigeria converts US Coast Guard vessel for pipeline patrols
A donated U.S. Coast Guard ship sailed Thursday to Nigeria, where navy commanders said they would rig it with cannon and machine guns to guard international oil production against pirates and militants.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-27/s_13538.asp

Smoke pollution makes for stronger storms
Smoke drifting from burning forests in the Amazon is affecting the climate across the entire continent — drying up rain but making the storms that do develop much more violent than usual, scientists reported on Thursday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-27/s_13530.asp

U.S. company delays lead poisoning mitigation in Peru
The head of a U.S.-owned smelter admitted Wednesday that lead poisoning of children by the facility's emissions was a serious problem, but said his company would not be able to significantly reduce the contamination until 2011.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-27/s_13531.asp

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Island Press, demonstrating how new ideas and new thinking can unleash solutions to environmental problems. They have just published a new book entitled "Politics, Pollution, and Pandas: An Environmental Memoir" written by Russell Train, the first of the EPA's nine administrators to publish a candid memoir about the EPA. Read the story

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Today's Press Releases (Become an Affiliate)
Direct from non-profit environmental and educational organizations.

Sustainable Forestry and Certification Watch:
North American Leaders in Sustainable Forestry and Procurement to Meet in Vancouver

World Resources Institute:
A Climate of Information

World Resources Institute:
Experts Meet to Link Local Knowledge with Global Science

WWF-US Communications:
Siege Shuts Down Park; Threatens Galapagos Wildlife