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  • Cook Island activists in kayaks hold a banner reading "Don't Mine the Moana" in front of a ship that is returning to port in Rarotonga after conducting research that could be used to fast track seabed mining
    Press release
    Oceans

    High risk of economic losses from Cook Islands nodule extraction and sales – new study reveals

    The economic potential of seabed polymetallic nodules in the Cook Islands has been overstated, according to a new independent study commissioned by Greenpeace International.

    Juressa Lee
    9 December 2025
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    Climate Change System Shift

    AI is worse for the environment than you think – here’s why

    The System Shift podcast dives into one of the biggest climate blind spots of AI: the energy hunger behind AI chipmaking.

    Greenpeace Aotearoa
    9 December 2025
  • Press release
    Climate Change Food&Farming Freshwater Clean Energy Politics

    A blueprint for more pollution and environmental harm – Greenpeace reaction to new Resource Management bills 

    Greenpeace says the Government’s rewrite of New Zealand’s core environmental laws includes an outrageous new idea, whereby companies will be able to claim financial compensation when councils introduce rules to…

    Gen Toop
    9 December 2025
  • Te Waikoropupu Springs
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    Freshwater Politics Fast Track

    Another dead rat banquet for NZ First? Resource Management bills expected tomorrow

    Greenpeace is questioning whether NZ First has acquired a taste for the ACT Party’s dead rats, as the Government prepares to unveil its new Resource Management bills tomorrow. 

    Gen Toop
    8 December 2025
  • Press release
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    Nitrate levels in Glenavy dangerously close to Blue Baby risk level

    Almost exactly one year after the Glenavy water supply exceeded the legal health limits for nitrate, the town’s water supply nitrate levels are rising – and fast.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    6 December 2025
  • A message is projected in light onto dark cliffs rising from the sea reading Stop Deep Sea Mining
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    Seabed Mining

    Deep sea mining in the Arctic stopped once again

    Oslo, Norway – The newly elected Norwegian government has ruled out deep sea mining licenses in Arctic waters until at least the end of 2029.

    Emma Page
    5 December 2025
  • Climate Extremist billboard featuring David Seymour, Winston Peters and Christopher Luxon
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    Climate Change

    Govt rejects climate advice less than a week after deadly floods in Asia kill over 1400

    The Government has today announced it is rejecting all of the Climate Change Commission’s recommendations.

    Gen Toop
    4 December 2025
  • Press release
    Climate Change Politics Fast Track

    Greenpeace says Government’s war on nature has sparked a powerful nationwide resistance

    Greenpeace says the Luxon Government’s “war on nature” has been met with an unprecedented wave of resistance from tens of thousands of New Zealanders over the two years since the coalition…

    Russel Norman
    27 November 2025
  • Over 20,000 marched down Queen Street to protest the Government's Fast Track Bill
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    Climate Change Politics Fast Track

    Defending Nature – Acts of resistance to the Luxon Government’s war on nature: a timeline

    The National-ACT-NZ First coalition was sworn in in late November 2023 – and wasted no time launching an all-out war on nature, unleashing a relentless onslaught of anti-environment initiatives. You…

    Gen Toop
    26 November 2025
    5 min read
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    Food&Farming Freshwater Health

    Ashburton town supply water sample nears national health limit for nitrate; almost double levels associated with reproductive risk

    Greenpeace testing on Sunday revealed that a sample of Ashburton town water supply had reached nitrate contamination levels of 9.65mg/L.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    25 November 2025
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