Fw: (ENS) World News February 7, 2002

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: CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY

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: WASHINGTON, DC, February 7, 2002 (ENS) - Two new reports by U.S. and

: international conservation groups detail the extensive threats to wildlife

: and biodiversity hotspots posed by global warming. Saying the studies

: provide further evidence that quick action is needed to combat climate

: change, the groups are calling on U.S. lawmakers to help cut greenhouse

gas

: emissions by enacting higher fuel efficiency standards for cars and light

: trucks.

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: BITTERROOT SETTLEMENT SAVES THOUSANDS OF FOREST ACRES

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: MISSOULA, Montana, February 7, 2002 (ENS) - The U.S. Forest Service agreed

: today to remove 27,000 acres of roadless old growth forest and sensitive

: fish habitat from a planned logging project in the Bitterroot National

: Forest in Montana. The settlement with several conservation groups ends

: months of contentious dispute over a massive, 46,000 acre timber sale that

: environmentalists warned could set a dangerous precedent for Western

logging.

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: THE LONG, COLD RECYCLE

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: MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, February 7, 2002 (ENS) - A unique independent

: project to help clear Antarctica of junk has overcome a final hurdle, with

the

: unloading here of a shipment of 1,000 metric tons of scrap metal.

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: WORST FLOODING IN DECADES INUNDATES INDONESIA

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: JAKARTA, Indonesia, February 7, 2002 (ENS) - A week of incessant rain and

the

: worst flooding in decades have claimed at least 57 lives in Greater

Jakarta, and another

: 27 people have been killed in other parts of the Indonesian archipelago,

according to

: government officials.

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: ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: FEBRUARY 7, 2002

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: Nitrate Pollution Plagues U.S., China Groundwater

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: EPA's Sewage Sludge Research Challenged

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: El Niño Predicted for Tropical Pacific

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: Religious, Senate Leaders Oppose ANWR Drilling

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: Ocean Vent Creatures Studied in Surface Tanks

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: International Team Targets Arsenic in Bangladesh

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: Kraft Targeted by Genetic Engineering Critics

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: New Photosynthetic Bacteria Found in Oceans

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