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E-mail Edition 07/02/2004

Parliament's poached penguin eggs and the Great Guano War
In June 2000 a bulk ore carrier named MV Treasure, owned by Good Faith Shipping, was holed by who knows what and sank between Dassen and Robben islands off Cape Town, South Africa.
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Alaska Natives say warming trend imperils villages
A warming climate is bringing expensive and potentially dangerous erosion and floods to Native Alaskan villages, representatives of those communities told federal officials this week.
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Poaching is wiping out Zimbabwe's wildlife
Rare species like the black rhino are being wiped out in Zimbabwe because of rampant poaching and human settlement on private game reserves seized by the state, a conservation group said on Thursday.
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Breaking the lawn-care pesticide cycle
Elise Craig lives in a garden apartment in Portland, Oregon, where children roll in the grass and run barefoot across lawns in the summer light. A year ago, she realized that whenever the landlord spread lawn-care chemicals on the grass, her six-year-old son, Michael, lost bowel and bladder control for weeks afterward.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-07-02/s_25227.asp

Low-lying Dutch fear rising seas
Global warming and rising oceans will have an "unthinkable" effect on the Netherlands where half the population lives below sea level, said Dutch Environment Minister Pieter van Geel.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-07-02/s_25491.asp

USDA announces $26 million project to restore Nebraska wetlands
Persistent flooding of their corn and soybean fields led Robert and Verneel Noerrlinger to return 535 acres to wetlands. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is urging other landowners along the Missouri River in Nebraska to consider doing the same.
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Protect our peppers, say Mexican chili farmers
Mexican chili farmers, under pressure from cheap foreign peppers, want to give their products the same international brand protection as French champagne or Parma ham from Italy.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-07-02/s_25492.asp

USDA, consumer groups clash over impact of more mad cow
Health and consumer experts challenged federal government assertions Thursday that the possible discovery of a second U.S. case of mad cow disease should not concern American consumers or foreign buyers.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-07-02/s_25496.asp

Administration proposal would open more national forest land to logging
Governors would have to petition the federal government to block road-building in remote areas of national forests under a Bush administration proposal to boost logging.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-07-02/s_25501.asp

Nation's richest farming counties brace for new air-quality rules
Farmers and dairy operators in the lush San Joaquin Valley became the first in the nation Thursday forced to comply with state agricultural air pollution standards.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-07-02/s_25502.asp

Size of Trinidad oil spill disputed
A private oil company said Thursday a spill at one of its drilling sites involved 4,000 barrels of oil, a figure 10 times larger than what the state-owned oil company claimed.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-07-02/s_25500.asp

U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rise
A colder winter in 2003 helped boost the amount of U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions spewed last year by 0.9 percent to 5,788 million metric tons, the government said on Thursday.
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