And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Editor's Note: Please continue to send in your feedback: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] January 28, 1999 On the web at: http://www.envirolink.org/environews/ Environmental Headlines from Around the Internet: Salmon plant for Northwest proposed -- President Clinton Wednesday proposed spending $100 million next year for new state-driven efforts to replenish shrinking salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558223217-7a7 Concern over future of Antarctica -- Officials from 24 countries meeting in the Antarctic said Wednesday that the region faces several serious threats, including illegal fishing. But they stopped short of taking any specific steps to protect it. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558220569-4cc German Greens fight nuke plants -- Undaunted by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's slowdown on plans to abandon nuclear energy, the Greens party said Wednesday it will press to close Germany's first power plants within four years. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558223240-f5c NMFS may take Umpqua searun cuttroat trout off endangered species list -- Federal biologists are considering taking the Umpqua River searun cutthroat trout off the endangered species list by lumping them into a larger population of cutthroat trout up and down the Oregon Coast. Read the story: http://www.djc.com/data/news/19990128/10049469.htm Men fined for disturbing polar bear -- Two men who chased a polar bear with snowmobiles for a picture worth a thousand words received fines worth thousands of dollars instead. The fines, levied Wednesday by the district court for the Svalbard islands, were the heaviest ever imposed by Norway for disturbing the protected species. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558221880-72f Wildlife fund wants world DDT ban -- Sufficient scientific evidence exists of DDT's danger to humans and animals to justify a global ban on the insecticide, the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558224350-8b7 $1.2 bln spent for chemical safety -- The chemical industry, often at odds with health advocates and environmentalists, committed $1.2 billion Wednesday for a six-year program of research into how chemicals affect health and safety. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558225381-aee Forest Service jumps at chance to protect tiny toad -- Concern over an endangered toad prompted the closure of part of the Angeles National Forest, including 17 miles of off-road vehicle trails, the U.S. Forest Service said Tuesday. Read the story: http://www.spokane.net:80/news-story-body.asp?Date=012799ID=s521655 Plutonium 'baking' resumes at Hanford -- The process of converting 4.4 tons of scrap plutonium to more stable forms for storage has resumed after a two-year moratorium at the Hanford nuclear reservation. Read the story: http://www.djc.com/data/news/19990128/10049473.htm The thermal stabilization process converts radioactive scrap plutonium into a safer, ceramic-like powder by baking it in small ovens called muffle furnaces at 1,750 degrees for two to four hours. High-Tech Tools Deter Spills but Not Critics -- The oil ndustry has deployed an array of instruments to spot potential trouble and is keeping cleanup crews on alert. But foes say technology and human oversight both can fail. Read the story: http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/SCIENCE/ENVIRON/t000008615.html Pakistani Iodine -- Pakistan's rampant deforestation and flooding has washed iodine out of the soil, and decreased iodine levels are causing health problems. Attempts by the government to get the word out are only partly successful. Listen to the report, produced by Living on Earth: http://www.haa.harvard.edu:82/ath/video/01223of8.ram Red Wolf Roams Again -- Living on Earth reporter Dianne Toomey brings us the story of the red wolf and its reintroduction to the wilds of North Carolina. Hear the story: http://www.haa.harvard.edu:82/ath/video/01151of8.ram Cod Fishing -- The New England Fisheries Management Council is poised to pass severe limits on cod fishing to help replenish the lowest cod stock in 30 years. As Susan Chisholm of Maine Public Radio reports, fishermen are frustrated, and say the restrictions will drive even more of them out of business. Hear the story: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/19990127.atc.10.ram This edition of the EnviroLink News Service is sponosored by Knauer Communications (http://www.knauer.com). 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