And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Editor's Note: Please continue to send in your feedback: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] January 29, 1999 On the web at: http://www.envirolink.org/environews/ Environmental Headlines from Around the Internet: Tar-like balls wash up on Puerto Rico beach -- Balls of a black, tar-like substance are washing up on two popular Puerto Rican tourist beaches, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday. The balls, each two to six inches wide, began appearing on Isla Verde and Condado beaches in San Juan Wednesday. "Swimmers were coming out of the water with some of the gunk on them," said Coast Guard spokesman Dave Silva. Investigators said they are unsure what the substance is or where it came from, and they are warning beachgoers not to touch the balls. They dug trenches Thursday in the sand to collect balls at high tide that peaks in mid-afternoon. Environmentalists said any new balls should wash ashore then. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558243182-e8e Grand Canyon to get $2.5 mln donation -- The 5 million tourists who visit Grand Canyon National Park each year will be spared what the park superintendent says are moth-eaten exhibits in ancient buildings. The Del E. Webb Foundation announced a $2.5 million donation Thursday to the Grand Canyon National Park Foundation for the renovation of the Community Building, built in 1935. It's one of five historic but outdated buildings at the South Rim that will be improved and transformed into a Heritage Education Campus, featuring the latest technological bells and whistles to showcase the canyon's human, geological and natural history for children. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558243657-c11 Anglers try keeping Gulf area open -- Fishery officials approved a plan Thursday to close a huge section of the Gulf of Maine to fishing to try and replenish once-abundant cod stocks, a move that could ground thousands of commercial fisherman. The New England Fishery Management Council voted to close a swath of ocean extending 30 miles from the coast from Cape Cod Bay to the border of New Hampshire and Maine. Scallop fishermen are exempt from the ban. The new limits will be phased in starting in March. The council also voted to cut the daily cod catch from 400 pounds per boat to 200 pounds elsewhere in the Gulf of Maine. Scientists released a report in December that the cod population was at its lowest in 30 years. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558243804-249 Game director under fire -- Two environmental groups Wednesday urged the Idaho Fish and Game Commission to dismiss agency Director Steve Mealey for failing to promote proper wildlife management. Read the story: http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=012899ID=s522053 Stubble-burning deal is dirty, groups contend -- An industry-backed pact on wheat-stubble burning is a big step backward and threatens air quality in Eastern Washington, six public health and environmental groups said Wednesday. Read the story: http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=012899ID=s522171 Back to Nature -- Herbal remedies are of dwindling interest to the young people of Papua New Guinea. But now the country's exotic foliage is being eyed by medical researchers, plant life may hold new currency. Read the story: http://www.oneworld.org/vso/orbit/71/environment.html Report: Wind Power Growse in Popularity -- Wind power is the world's fastest growing energy source and one of the globe's most rapidly expanding industries with sales of around $2 billion in 1998. Last year was a banner year for wind power, with generating capacities increasing by 2,100 megawatts, an increase of 35 percent over what was added in 1997, according to the Worldwatch Institute. Read the story: http://www.earthtimes.org/jan/environmentwindpoweristhejan29_99.htm MoJo's Hellraiser -- When Peter Goodman learned in December 1996 that a new glass plant would soon start spewing toxins into the air just six miles from his western New York home, he didn't stage a protest at city hall or canvass in the streets. Instead, this soft-spoken, 54-year-old social worker did his homework. He discovered that state regulators were about to give Guardian Industries a license to emit 30 percent more nitrogen oxide than necessary. Read the story: http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF99/hellraiser.html Spielberg's Other Lost World -- Los Angeles has its own Central Park sitting right under its nose, waiting to be noticed. Instead, it's being bulldozed, and Steven Spielberg is building his new film studio on the site as part of one of the biggest real estate developments in the city's history. Read the story: http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF99/hertsgaard.html This edition of the EnviroLink News Service is sponosored by Knauer Communications (http://www.knauer.com). 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