All articles by Nick Young
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Endangered Species Day is a stark reminder to protect the oceans
On this Endangered Species Day, these dramatic images show what's at stake and why we urgently need to protect our blue planet.
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Budget 2021 delivers nothing but loose change for climate crisis
Today’s Budget announcement offers little more than loose change for tackling the climate crisis. It’s incredibly frustrating to watch this Government continue a slow and incremental approach to dealing with what is a major and urgent crisis. Winning slowly on climate change is the same as losing.
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WATCH: We are what we eat
Somewhere along the way, some of us got things badly wrong with the way food was produced.
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25-tonne deep sea mining robot lost on Pacific Ocean seabed during trial
One of the world’s first deep sea mining pilot tests has resulted in a huge machine being stuck on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean.
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Greenpeace issues ‘please explain’ to Austrian Govt over new OMV spying allegations
They danced the macarena, they marched in the streets and they peacefully occupied the OMV site in New Plymouth with sleeping bags and banners, they didn’t deserve to be spied on in this way.
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Aotearoa one step closer to a safer, more resilient future with surrender of last South Island oil permit
Greenpeace is celebrating the announcement that New Zealand Oil & Gas will relinquish their deep sea exploration permit off the south coast of the South Island as “another win for the climate, for wildlife and for people power”.
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Reality check: Saving wildlife and biodiversity means saving ourselves
If Nature were to stroll into a doctor’s office for a check up today, what do you think the prognosis would be? The symptoms are obvious: polluted life-giving waterways, devastating…
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Is Greenpeace a charity in New Zealand?
People often ask whether Greenpeace is a charity so, for the record, the answer is yes. Greenpeace is a charity in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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The biggest little whales
Pygmy blue whales are a tropical subspecies of the blue whale, and though they are only a few metres shorter in length, reaching about 24m as opposed to the 30m, they are often about half of the overall weight of a blue whale in the Antarctic.
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Another win for the movement against deep sea oil exploration
Greenpeace is celebrating the announcement that New Zealand Oil & Gas and its partner Beach Energy will relinquish their oil and gas exploration permit off the Oamaru coast as “another win for the climate, for wildlife and for people power”.