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ENN Daily News for 09/08/2004

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Africa's world is our world
If the crisis in Sudan is an indication of the international community's current capacity to respond to humanitarian disasters, we have much to learn about dealing with the increasing number of refugees and political strife expected in the developing world in the future.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-08/s_26937.asp

Ranchers try to boost alternative grazing method
In the early 1980s, Gene Goven noticed his cattle spent all of their time in one place, grazing on the tender regrowth of their favorite plant species and ignoring the rest. The favored plants eventually dwindled and nonnative species thrived, resulting in less plant diversity and unhealthy soil.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-08/s_26943.asp

Global CITES meeting to consider new rules to save great white shark, timber
The great white shark and the diminutive humphead wrasse are to be added to a list of species requiring trade permits during a global conference next month in the Thai capital, organizers said Tuesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-08/s_26942.asp

"Once a century" floods kill 161 in China
Floods in southwest China unleashed by five days of torrential rain and labeled a "once-in-a-century catastrophe" have killed at least 161 people, and the toll is expected to rise, state media said on Wednesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-08/s_26945.asp

Pharming: The next war on drugs?
Shopping for rice could soon include scanning the label for drugs. Welcome to pharming, the new genetic engineering science that turns corn, rice — and even animals — into drug-delivery devices.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-08/s_26936.asp

Average U.S. motorist spends two days a year in traffic jams
The average U.S. motorist spends 46 hours each year or nearly two full days stuck in rush-hour traffic jams.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-08/s_26946.asp

Hazardous material leaks into sea off Turkish coast from sunken ship
Hazardous waste was leaking into the sea from a sunken ship off Turkey's Mediterranean coast on Tuesday, the environment minister said.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-08/s_26941.asp

Hurricane spilled 41 million gallons of acidic waste in Tampa-area waterway
Hurricane Frances carved a huge gap in the wall of a fertilizer company reservoir, spilling 41 million gallons of acidic waste that posed a threat to aquatic life in a bay near Tampa.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-08/s_26940.asp

Scientists skirt ice, politics in the Arctic
The ship crawled through the fog as if on a slow tour of frozen ruins, trying to avoid ice chunks of every size and shape off Russia's far northeastern coast.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-08/s_26944.asp

South Africa seizes uranium enrichment materials
South Africa seized 11 shipping containers of uranium enrichment materials in a raid on a firm run by a man it has charged under laws forbidding nuclear proliferation, a government agency said on Tuesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-08/s_26947.asp


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

California Safe Schools:
CALIFORNIA SAFE SCHOOLS PROTECTS KIDS & THE ENVIRONMENT

United Nations Environment Programme:
New UNEP report warns of threats to unique Arctic ecosystem of Barents Sea

World Resources Institute:
Malawi Phases Out Ozone-Damaging Insecticide

United Nations Environment Programme:
UNEP Launches First Report on State of Environment in Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Great Ape Trust of Iowa:
Countdown to Great Apes

United Nations Environment Programme:
CITES Authorizes Sturgeon Export Quotas for Black Sea

United Nations Environment Programme:
International Experts Meet to Consider Legal Options for Managing the World's Forests

Center for Biological Diversity:
International Conservation Groups Call on Bush & Koizumi to Save Okinawa Dugong