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Flipper Flip-Flop
The Clinton administration today is expected to give tuna processors and canners the go-ahead to label their products “dolphin-safe” even if they use large, encircling nets that can snare and kill dolphins. That fishing method was once thought to have killed 100,000 dolphins a year and spurred a 1990 import ban on tuna caught by […]
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Swedish Chef, Dutch Oven Cook Up Controversy
The European Union is struggling to pull together a common climate change strategy ahead of the next round of international talks on the issue to be held in Bonn in June. The European Union’s German presidency plans to call a special meeting of EU environment ministers on May 18 to hammer out an agreement. The […]
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The Death of Frankenfood
Britain’s largest grocery store chain, Tesco, gave the boot to genetically modified foods yesterday, saying it would phase them out from its shelves. Two popular British food processors also pledged to work toward eliminating genetically modified ingredients from their products, reacting to consumer outcries against the altered foods. Modified crops are not yet licensed to […]
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Don't Put This in Your Pipe and Smoke It
Meanwhile, British researchers announced on Tuesday that they had genetically engineered tobacco plants to make them capable of removing explosives from soil. The plants, which can break down unstable ingredients in explosives such as TNT and nitroglycerin, could be used to clean up areas around weapons factories and munitions dumps, according to an article in […]
