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Environmental reporting is an area I hope to explore further, especially
the political hot-potato of genetic modification.
Even
flowers can't sweeten GM's smell
Italy Daily Comment: Let’s just hope Uncle Sam doesn’t administer
a force feeding. Washington is angry at the loss of exports to Europe
worth around $4.5bn every year – and may run squealing to the World
Trade Organisation.
Facing
the bride of Frankenstein foods – makeup
Oxford Mail: Soya and corn oils are ingredients in numerous paints and
potions, especially skin creams, but no GM labels are required.
Food
Fight
In These Times: Europe and America gear up for a confrontation at the
WTO
Homes
battle on a towpath
Oxford Mail: Forget Newbury – Oxford is about to witness a far more
exotic activist than Swampy. Enter the Blue-Rinse Blockade, a bunch of
angry grandparents who are set to brave bulldozers to stop a canal development.
If
you go down to the woods today... you can be sure of an aerobic workout?
Oxford Times: Green gyms: Conservation tasks prove more efficient and
amusing than treadmills
Keeping
a lookout for the baiters
Oxford Times: The Burmese python was hungry and rather active when the
police arrived. Released into the wild, the exotic pet snake had grown
thin and was covered in burn marks from curling around a naked lightbulb,
desperate for heat. "It was quite lively," explains Pc Simon
Towers. "A woman found it, took it home and put it in a box. She
didn't know what it was."
No hands to the pumps?
Oxford Mail: Amanda Castleman looks at the issues behind today's planned
petrol boycott . . . Tony's people are angry. The giddy honeymoon is over
and the baby is howling – howling about the highest petrol prices
in Europe.
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