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E-mail Edition 06/24/2004

U.N. sees businesses responding to push for corporate citizenship
Businesses around the world increasingly are taking into account that improvements in the social and natural environments are part and parcel of an improved business environment, and United Nations engagement with the business community is a substantial factor in greater social activism by companies, U.N. senior officials said at a recent meeting.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-24/s_24922.asp

Africa's black rhino seen on road to recovery
Africa's black rhino has been snatched from the brink of extinction and its numbers are on the rebound, but the lumbering beast still faces many threats, conservationists said on Thursday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-24/s_25188.asp

Australia encourages Great Barrier Reef oil exploration
Australia has increased tax concessions to encourage oil exploration in the far reaches of the Great Barrier Reef, angering environmentalists who warn an oil spill could destroy the world's largest living reef system.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-24/s_25185.asp

Toxic pollution rose 5 percent in 2002, reversing trend
Toxic chemical releases into the environment rose 5 percent in 2002, marking only the second such increase reported by the Environmental Protection Agency in nearly two decades, and the first since 1997.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-24/s_25197.asp

Habitat for recovery of species seen as shortchanged
The Bush administration is approving only about one of every two acres that federal biologists propose setting aside to help vanishing species recover.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-24/s_25192.asp

California family drives to Argentina on recycled vegetable oil
Mali Blotta and David Modersbach were unfazed by rising gas prices when they drove 11,000 miles (17,700 kilometers) during a recent family road trip from California to Argentina. Their 24-year-old station wagon runs on much cheaper fuel: recycled vegetable oil.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-24/s_25117.asp

U.S. scientists follow fate of frog populations by their song
The green frogs sing first, belting out plings that sound like the plucking of thick rubber bands pulled taut. The spring peepers chime in with short bursts of high-pitched, birdlike chirping.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-24/s_25198.asp

Norwegian oil workers' strike escalates amid fear of short world supplies
A strike at an offshore oil field escalated Wednesday, raising fears that flows from the world's third-biggest oil exporter could dry up just as global demand is holding prices high. An industry executive described the conflict as "completely deadlocked."
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-24/s_25195.asp

Coca-Cola plant may be forced to close in southern India, official says
A Coca-Cola Co. plant in southern India may be forced to close permanently because a village council has accused it of depleting local groundwater and is refusing to renew its license, a company official said Wednesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-24/s_25194.asp

Environmentalists appeal ruling against Galapagos fishing limit
The Environmental Ministry has appealed a Galapagos Island court ruling delivered last week that struck down catch limits for lucrative sea cucumbers, a conservation leader said Wednesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-24/s_25193.asp

Greenland, Indonesia, and South Africa sites are set for U.N. protection
A unique ice-stream glacier in Greenland and a rain forest home to endangered orangutan in Indonesia are set to join the United Nations' main heritage site protection list, a key agency said Wednesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-24/s_25189.asp

Protesters fell Finland's only GM tree study
Protesters have torn up 400 genetically modified birch trees in Finland, wrecking the nation's only research into the environmental impact of biotechnology on forests, officials said Wednesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-24/s_25187.asp