JPRS Report. Environmental Issues [electronic resource].

Published:: [Arlington Va.] : [publisher not identified], 1991.
Physical Description:: 120 pages : charts, figures, maps, tables

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Environmental issues (1990- ) ; JPRS-TEN-91-013

Contents:

Arctic Ecology Conference Opens in Finland by TASS correspondent Aleksandr Surikov -- USSR Foreign Minister on UNEP's 'Rapid Reaction' Center by USSR Foreign Minister A.A. Bessmertnykh -- International Ecological Center Set Up in Moscow by TASS correspondent Sergey Ustyukov -- More on New Moscow International Ecological Center by TASS correspondent Leonid Timofeyev -- German-Polish Environmental Council Set Up -- Scientists View Black Sea Ecological Dangers, Improvement Efforts by Tamerlan Afiyatovich Ayzatulin, Dmitriy Yakovlevich Fashchuk -- 'Bangkok Statement' Discusses Global Warming -- Beijing Hosts Developing Countries Environment Conference -- More on Third World Environment Conference in Beijing by Staff reporter Zhou Jie -- Singapore Official Wants Common ASEAN Stand on Environment -- Nigerian Oil Minister, Venezuelan Counterpart on Oil, Environment -- Results of Environmental Poll Reported by Richard Dupaul -- Group Criticizes Ottawa on Great Lakes Pollution -- Bourassa Comments on Quebec Environmental Policy by Andre Pepin -- Minister Presents Draft Law on Quebec Pollution by Frederic Trembly -- Quebec Minister on James Bay Environmental Study by Frederic Tremblay -- Bureau Releases Report on National Environment in 1990 -- Equal Stress Laid in Development, Environmental Protection -- Impact of Chinese Population on Environment Analyzed by Qu Geping, Li Jinchang -- State Science Commission To Expand Use of Fly Ash -- Analysis of Desertification in China Conducted by Zhu Zhenda, Wang Tao -- New Magazine on Population, Environment -- Guizhou Province Awards Three Mayors for Environmental Work -- Kompong Speu Takes Steps Against Forest Depletion -- Government To Draft Regulations on Outdoor Bioengineering -- Plan To Survey Tsushima Current, Monitor Pollution -- Thai Mass Media Reports on 'Yellow Rain' Denied -- Steps Taken To Curb Use of Ozone-Depleting Chemicals -- Economics Ministry Plans Environment Protection Company -- Environmental Conditions in Hanoi Outlined -- Bulgaria, Romania Meet on Ruse-Giurgiu Environmental Issues -- Japan To Provide Antipollution Technology to Eastern Europe -- New Environmental Protection Measures Reported -- Drinking Water Situation Described as 'Critical' -- Briefing on Soviet Army's Environmental Damage -- Bielecki Proposes Debt Swap for Ecological Projects -- Kamenica Dump Radiation Levels Four Times Legal Limit -- Developed Countries Use Caribbean as 'Dump Sites' -- Cause of Conch Contamination To Be Investigated -- Experts Report 30 Percent Annual Decrease in Forests -- Zelia's Exit Seen To Favor Environmental Sector -- Document Reveals Government Plans for Amazon Region by Gilberto Dimenstein, Sonia Mossri -- Degree of Santiago Area Pollution Summarized -- Waste Contaminates Marine Products by Haydee Rojas -- Pollution Leads to Restrictions, Closures in Santiago -- Claims That Cuban Nuclear Power Station Is Unsafe Rebutted -- Capital's Mean Annual Temperature Up I Degree Centigrade by [Illegible] B -- 'Enormous' Forest Fires Burn Unopposed -- 1,702 Forest Fires Consume 26,342 Hectares by Fredy Guzman -- Benefits of Reforestation Program Explained by Rosendo Diaz Bendena -- Pollution, Soil Erosion on Atlantic Coast Noted -- War Damage to Gulf Evaluated -- Officials, Scholars View Nile Water Wastage by Jamal al-Sharqawi -- Need To Store Nile Water in Northern Lakes by Jamal al-Sharqawi -- Use of Leather-Treating Pentachlorophenol Banned -- Minister Ne'eman Foresees Nuclear Power Plant Within 1 Year -- Experimental Oil Shale Power Plant Proves Success -- King Calls for Conference To Share Water Expertise -- Majority of Forests Threatened by Development -- Japan Grants 3 Million Dollars for Forestry Development Plan -- Zalygin Sees Shortcomings in National Environmental Policies, Institutions by Sergey Zalygin. and Official Views Pollution Effect on Public Health, New Legislation by V. Chiburayev -- Public Hearings on Ecology Held in Moscow by TASS diplomatic correspondents Mikhail Ivanov, Leonid Limoteyev -- Defense Ministry, Ecologists Have 'Much Mutual Work Ahead' -- Cabinet Adopts Resolution on Chernobyl Program -- Goskomgidromet Chairman Izrael on Chernobyl Contamination Zones by Yu.A. Izrael -- Chernobyl Clean-Up Progress Reviewed: Health Problems Noted by IZVESTIYA correspondent A. Illesh [Illegible] -- Ukrainian Health Minister on Chernobyl Issues by Yuriy Prokofyevich Spizhenko -- Chernobyl Clean-Up Mismanaged by N. Lytvynenko -- Ukrainian Objections to IAEA Report on Chernobyl -- Belorussians Criticize IAEA Chernobyl Conclusions -- Death Rate of Chernobyl Rescue Workers Rises -- Statistics on Chernobyl Radiation Deaths -- Scientist Claims Chernobyl Reactor 'Contained a Bomb' -- Authorities Draft Measures To Improve Moscow Environment -- Moscow TV Airs New Ecological Program -- Scientists Want Leningrad Barrier Construction Stopped by TASS correspondent Lev Frolov -- KGB 'In No Hurry' To Pursue Green Politicians Attackers -- Leningrad Firm Offers Device To Save Fuel, Reduce Auto Emissions by TORGOVAYA GAZETA correspondent I. Ravkova -- Investigation of Lake Ladoga Nuclear Experiments Updated by O. Tarasov -- 1990 White Sea Pollution Investigation Continues To Produce Theories by KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA special correspondents K. Belyaninov, O. Volkov, A. Kosulnikov, V. Nedogonov, V. Umnov -- More on White Sea Contamination Investigation -- Environment Minister Hopes for Nordic Subsidies -- Source of Radioactive Contamination in Mikun Explored -- Lemeshev Scores Foreign Influence, Stalin, Others in Volga Development Schemes by Mikhail Lemeshev -- Green Party Leader Appointed Ukrainian Ecology Minister -- Gas-Fired Thermal Power Station To Replace Crimean Nuclear Plant -- Plans for Kirovograd Ore Plant Criticized by Yu Repeynik A. [Illegible] -- Rising Caspian Floods Coastal Land, Endangers Industries by N. Levaya -- Baku Conference Hears of Dangers to Caspian Sea -- Ministries Announce Findings in Sverdlovsk Pesticide Poisoning Case by B. Pipiya -- Special Program Improving Ecology in Kazakhstan Gas Field by I. Dvorkin, D. Gilmanov -- Kazakh Deputies Appeal to World Health Organization by TASS correspondent Fatyana Zhurbenko -- Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site Visited -- Central Asian Cloud Seeding Experiments Criticized by K. Sirozhidinov -- Heightened Morbidity in Altay Kray Associated With Contaminants by PRAVDA correspondent S. Vtorushin -- Novel Sorbent Permits Petroleum Reclamation by I. Patsevich -- ESA Inaugurates Earth Observation Coordination Center -- Swedish Deputies Approve Oeresund Bridge to Denmark -- Nation Seen Lagging on Environmental Standards by Reinhold Smonig -- Company To Build 100 kW Chemical Heat Pump Prototype by Cectle Remy -- Company Presents 'Clean' Circuit Soldering/Cleaning Machine by Ridha Loukil -- Renault Studying Auto Parts Recycling -- 'Environmental Crimes' Caused by Soviet Army Described -- FIAT's Ecological Programs Outlined by Massimo Mucchetti.

Report Numbers:

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Subject(s):

Environmental issues

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Document Date: 7/5/1991.

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