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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEWLY-formed European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has signed a cooperation agreement with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to make sure that they do not duplicate each other’s work. A memorandum of understanding, signed at a WHO meeting in Budapest, Hungary, has highlighted wide-ranging areas for collaboration.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NAMED America’s fruit basket, the San Joaquin Valley in California ranks among the top three regions of the US with the dirtiest air, alongside traffic-clogged Los Angeles and Houston. Among lush green meadows, with fruits crops dancing in the breeze, is an environmental disaster caused by 2.5 million cows, said a recent report, by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched an Internet service enabling environmental health teams to track outbreaks of notified animal diseases across the European Union (EU). This Animal Disease Notification System is updated weekly and notes the number of outbreaks and the date of the most recent case, amongst other information.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
IT may never equal the four-fold rise in the price of a barrel of crude oil that took place between 1973 and 1974, but this year’s hike to more than US$60 a barrel has given all those industries dependent on the stability of fuel prices a severe shock, and the aviation industry is one of those reeling from the increases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HIGH profile environmental project protecting endangered snow leopards has been launched in association with central Asia’s largest gold deposit, the Kumtor gold mine, in Kyrgyzstan’s inaccessible Tien Shan mountains. Environmentalists have consistently attacked the development, particularly after sodium cyanide from an overturned truck spilled into the Barskoon River in 1998.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority is reviewing its aspartame guidelines, taking account of new data linking it with cancer from the European Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences, Bologna.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend German retail giant Metro Euro 40 million to build five junior wholesale cash and carry stores in Vietnam. They would cover between 6,000 and 9,000 square metres in sales area and would mirror the small cash and carry format that has proved particularly successful for Metro in eastern and southern Europe.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT’S summer, so in southern Europe there are, once again, forest fires. Villagers and firefighters in Spain and Portugal have been battling wildfires in recent days that have destroyed thousands of hectares of forest and scrubland, while French firefighters have also fought blazes in Provence, the Var department in the Côte d’Azur, and Greoux-les-Bains, near the French Alps.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA’S remote far-east Kamchatka peninsular is something of a sacred cow for conservationists, so it is no surprise the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has undertaken a detailed environmental impact assessment for a gold and silver mine project in the region.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 149.6 million to Spanish electricity company Viesgo Generación to build a large natural gas-fired combined cycle generating plant in Spain, generating around 800 MWe. The project would entail constructing advanced gas-fired combined-cycle technology with a relatively low environmental impact in a poorer area of Spain.…