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Headline	Author	Published	Section
What's Done is Done, Except When It's Not Six months after oil spill, cleanup continues in Lebanon		23 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
What's Done is Done, Except When It's Not Six months after oil spill, cleanup continues in Lebanon Two weeks ago, the U.S. triumphantly proclaimed that a major oil-spill cleanup along Lebanon's coast was complete. Funny story, though: while the spill affected 93 miles of shoreline, the U.S.-led project gussied up a mere 68 of 'em. Described by Greenpeace as an "underwater nightmare," the slick stems from an Isra ...
Topics: energy, Mediterranean, news, oil (all these topics)

Spill 'er Up! Oil spills from Japanese and Philippine tankers		15 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Spill 'er Up! Oil spills from Japanese and Philippine tankers It's been an oil-spillarific few days. A Japanese tanker, en route from Jordan, collided yesterday with a distressed cargo ship and spilled about 1.4 million gallons of crude into the eastern Indian Ocean. The ship's owner claims the spill has been contained and there's no need to clean it up, as the oil will naturally dispe ...
Topics: energy, Indian Ocean, Japan, Mediterranean, news, oil, Philippines (all these topics)

And You Were Thinking It Couldn't Get Worse Oil spill and power-plant fire wreak havoc in already-havoc-stricken Lebanon		28 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
And You Were Thinking It Couldn't Get Worse Oil spill and power-plant fire wreak havoc in already-havoc-stricken Lebanon Bombed by Israel two weeks ago, a storage fuel tank of a power plant in Beirut, Lebanon, is still burning, filling the air with dangerous fumes; another exploded, sending at least 10,000 tons of oil into the Mediterranean Sea. Particulate pollution could waft as far as Europe, and wind ...
Topics: energy, health, Israel, Mediterranean, news, oil (all these topics)

C'est Fin Sushi popularity means bad news for tuna, WWF warns		07 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
C'est Fin Sushi popularity means bad news for tuna, WWF warns The popularity of sushi is sending tuna stocks into a downward spiral, says the World Wildlife Fund, warning that Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna will go extinct if commercial fishers continue hooking them at current rates. "The fishery is running out of control," WWF says in a new report. To keep ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life, Mediterranean, news, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Cork Screwed Drop in cork demand could endanger Mediterranean forests		19 May 2006	Daily Grist
Cork Screwed Drop in cork demand could endanger Mediterranean forests What wine goes best with endangered forest? Perhaps a nice pinot gris? Mediterranean cork-oak forests provide 15 billion cork stoppers a year to the wine industry -- a sustainable enterprise, as cork is harvested from live trees rather than dead ones -- but plastic and screw-top closures are growing in popularity. A drop in the cork ...
Topics: Mediterranean, news, wilderness, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Rome If You Want to		22 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Rome If You Want to One-third of Italy's most important cultural sites are in a state of emergency, according to the Italian environmental group Legambiente, which studied 36 areas in the country that have been designated World Heritage sites by the United Nations. The group said water pollution was threatening Venice, while smog and sprawl were damaging Naples, Flore ...
Topics: air pollution, Italy, Mediterranean, placemaking, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

Clubbed Med		10 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Clubbed Med Ah, the Mediterranean: brilliant sun, snow-white sand, a smattering of paradisiacal islands in a glittering sea. That's the reputation that makes the region the most popular tourist destination in the world -- but sadly, the flood of tourists is rapidly unmaking the reputation. Every year, the region hosts 200 million visitors -- nearly one-third of the world's tourist flo ...
Topics: business, Mediterranean, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

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