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Greenpeace urges WHO to update decades-old drinking water guidelines over nitrate health risks
Greenpeace is calling on the World Health Organization to review the international drinking water standards for nitrate.
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Greenpeace ‘officially renames’ new Talley’s supertrawler ahead of maiden voyage to NZ
Activists protesting destructive bottom trawling have renamed Talley’s new supertrawler in Spain today, ahead of the ship’s maiden voyage to New Zealand.
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New ECan groundwater report confirms Canterbury’s nitrate emergency is worsening
Environment Canterbury’s latest groundwater quality survey confirms that Canterbury is still in a nitrate emergency.
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NZ’s controversial methane targets could spark global race to the bottom, enable cover-up of 10 billion tonnes of climate pollution this decade
New research has slammed an alternative greenhouse gas accounting metric, backed by agribusiness lobbyists.
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Fonterra is just a corporation, and it needs to be regulated to protect freshwater and the climate
Fonterra is just a corporation. It is a corporation owned by other corporations. Fonterra, and the corporations that own it, all have a single purpose: maximising financial returns to its…
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NZ Govt accused of acting as “industry mouthpiece” after bid to open deep-sea coral hotspot to trawling in Tasman Sea
Environmental groups are calling out the New Zealand Government for attempting to reopen a coral hotspot to bottom trawling, despite recent scientific findings proving the site is home to diverse deep sea life.
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NZ Food Safety is working for agribusiness not food consumers
Pesticides are dangerous. They are dangerous for the farm workers applying them, they are destructive of the natural world, and they harm the people who eat the food. But agribusiness…
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NZ Food Safety told the public pesticide residue levels were safe, while internal assessments said the opposite
Documents released by Greenpeace today show that the NZ Food Safety agency failed to raise alarms over unsafe levels of pesticide residue on food.
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Watch the livestream – The Great Freshwater Debate!
We'll be livestreaming the Great Freshwater Debate on October 19th - find the link to the livestream on this page.
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Election candidates to debate fresh water in Christchurch
Greenpeace has announced that it will host an election debate on fresh water in Christchurch on October 19th, titled ‘the Great Freshwater Debate’.