All articles by Nick Young
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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”.
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Remember the Norilsk oil spill? Well, the polluters will pay.
The Krasnoyarsk Arbitration Court ordered the Norilsk Nickel to pay 146 billion rubles (nearly 2 billion USD) for the oil spill in the Taimyr Peninsula. And although the amount of damage was slightly less than the one requested by Rosprirodnadzor.
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42 groups and respected experts call on PM to back a ‘Peoples’ Vaccine’
42 different groups and noted experts, including Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand, NZ Council of Trade Unions, the New Zealand Public Service Association, Greenpeace Aotearoa and Médecins Sans Frontières New…
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Looking back on 2020 and forward to 2021
As we approach the end of a very challenging year, we look to the the future with a new understanding of our connectedness, and the importance of working together to take care of our shared home and each other.
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Tropical Cyclone Yasa’s climate-charged 345 km/h winds cut a path of destruction through Fiji’s two major islands
Tropical Cyclone Yasa struck with wind gusts up to 345 km/h overnight as it tore through Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, destroying homes and schools and forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents.
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VIDEO: The story of a spoon, an epic origin story
Going back to normal is not an option. "Normal" was a crisis. The past (and present) was not only unjust and inequitable, it was unstable. Now that we have the opportunity, we must reimagine the systems our country is built on from the ground up.
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8 reasons why we need to phase out the fossil fuel industry as we build back better
Fossil fuel corporations are profiting from the continued consumption of coal, oil and gas, which are driving global warming to dangerous levels, but the industry’s bad behavior doesn’t stop with greenhouse gas emissions.
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Greenpeace welcomes Greens’ transport policy, calls for climate to be bottom line
Greenpeace has welcomed the Green Party’s transport policy announced today, but is seeking assurances that the Greens will make clean transport a bottom line in any potential coalition agreement.
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Amazon, Bolsonaro, Cattle: the ABC’s of Destruction
In spite of a declared fire ban and the presence of the army, the number of fire hotspots recorded in August are likely to be even higher than last year. Fires in the Amazon rainforest are not natural. They are deliberately set by land-grabbers and ranchers to expand the land used for cattle grazing and…