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E-mail Edition 06/01/2004

EarthTalk: Is the world running out of oil?
Many experts say that evidence points to a declining world oil supply. According to renowned petroleum geologist Colin Campbell, who has worked for Texaco, BP, Shell, and other major oil companies, world oil discovery peaked in the 1960s, while world production is set to peak about six years from now. Campbell predicts "the onset of a chronic long-term shortage" by 2010.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-01/s_24208.asp

Soaring U.S. gas prices spur interest in hybrids
Hybrid vehicles made headlines in March after movie stars like Will Ferrell, Robin Williams, and Tim Robbins used the Toyota Prius to get to the Academy Awards show.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-01/s_24379.asp

Salmon protection dodges bullet with revised plan
Federal officials scaled back plans recently to reduce protections for endangered Northwest U.S. salmon but proposed boosting wild salmon populations with salmon raised in hatchery tanks, a move that environmentalists said could harm wild stocks.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-01/s_24377.asp

African experts meet to negotiate new agreement to replace 75-year old Nile River colonial treaty
Experts from African countries that share the Nile River's waters began another round of talks on Monday intended to help draw up a new agreement on how the vast resource is utilized.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-01/s_24387.asp

Feeling the heat
The disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow has been dismissed by some scientists and environmentalists as too extreme and spectacular to be credible.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-01/s_24375.asp

Drought is changing the way farmers do business
A nearly decade-long drought is changing the way Frank Martin does business at Crooked Sky Farms.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-01/s_24386.asp

Iraqi water sector undermined by crippled infrastructure, absence of security, minister says
Iraq has sufficient water resources from lakes and rivers, but the vital sector is undermined by impotent infrastructure and lack of security in post-war Iraq, Iraqi Water Resources Minister Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid said this week.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-01/s_24388.asp

Hunt for Haiti flooding victims widens
Relief workers already feeding and sheltering thousands of Haitians Monday widened searches to outlying areas for more survivors of flooding and mudslides that killed about 2,000 people.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-01/s_24376.asp

Waning earthshine on Moon signals pollution, says study
The light the Earth casts on the dark side of the Moon is waning, perhaps a signal of climate change or worsening pollution, scientists reported recently.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-01/s_24381.asp

Oil giants outside Middle East struggle to offset rising global crude prices
Leading oil exporters outside the Middle East have pledged to boost production to offset soaring world prices, but it could be months or years before Russia, Nigeria, and Mexico really manage to open their taps.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-01/s_24385.asp

Germany sees conference strengthening industrialized world's commitment to renewable energy
An international conference this week will send a signal that industrialized countries are committed to developing renewable energies as "a serious pillar of our energy supplies," Germany's environment minister said in an interview broadcast this week.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-01/s_24389.asp

West's spies missed Libya nuke shipment from Turkey
As U.S., British, and U.N. experts were busy disarming Libya, a shipment of nuclear-bomb-related machinery from Turkey slipped past Western intelligence agencies into Libya in March, an atomic expert said recently.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-01/s_24380.asp