World Watch articles from July 2000

World Watch archives from July 2000

Politically Modified Foods.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Once among the most outspoken proponents of genetically engineered crops east of the Atlantic Ocean, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair declared in a recent editorial in the Independent that "there's no doubt that there is potential for harm, both...

When Corporations Can't Rule the World.
July 1, 2000... Publications like David Korten's 1996 book When Corporations Rule the World and Olin Robinson's 1997 commentary The Decline of the Nation State, as well as some of the observations in Hilary French's just published Vanishing Borders, document a...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2000... On page 12 of the March/April issue, in our Earth Day report, we referred to Hurricane Mitch as innundating Honduras and Belize; we should have said Honduras and Nicaragua.

FROM READERS.
July 1, 2000... What Will Wind Turbines Do to Migrating Birds? I was very disturbed to read in "Energy for a New Century (March/April) that Christopher Flavin is advocating wind power and, by association, "giant wind firms," without considering the...

Forest Watch is launched.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The World Resources Institute (WRI) has launched a new program to provide, for the first time, a source of comprehensive and reliable information about the condition of the world's forests and the forces that threaten them. Called Global...

Fossil fuel coalition is burning out.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... In a span of less than four months, four major energy and transportation companies and the largest electric utility in the United States dropped out of the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), a Washington-based industry association set up to fight...

Gold leaves toxic trail in Europe's rivers.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Several major rivers in Europe suffered the fallout of a gigantic mining accident in January 2000 that killed 650 tons of fish in a matter of weeks, deprived 2.5 million Hungarians of their water supplies, and left 15,000 fishermen jobless. ...

Setting priorities for conservation.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... 44 percent of all vascular plant species and 35 percent of all terrestrial vertebrate species appear to be confined to just 25 "hotspots," which cover only 1.4 percent of the Earth's land surface, according to a paper published in the 24...

Watching vs. Taking.
July 1, 2000... We are seeing a shift in human relationships with wildlife, as millions turn from taking other species for furs, food, or sport to just watching. In a way, it's a new kind of hunt. "Get over here... It's back," whispers a stone-faced...

The Biodiversity That People Made.
July 1, 2000... The intricate genetic diversity of the world's crops is largely a human invention--and it remains essential for human sustenance. The complex landscape of traditional farmland is also a human invention, and it is now essential natural habitat....

Robbing Ourselves Blind: How We've Managed to Ignore Ecological Collapse.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature Carl N. McDaniel and John M. Gowdy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) In 1976, National Geographic magazine declared that Nauru, a country barely six times the size of New York's Central...

WATCHING.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Humans may be sharp observers of other species (cover story), but the reverse seems to be true as well. Animals like the North American red wolf, whose survival is threatened by steadily increasing encroachments of human development into its...

Devouring our seed corn.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... At the time this seed packet was printed around a century ago, U.S. farmers were cultivating hundreds if not thousands of corn varieties; by 1969, the U.S. corn crop was dominated by just six. All over the world this scenario is repeating...

Viagra, Malaria, and the Future of Health Care.
July 1, 2000... [TABLE HAS BEEN CLIPPED]