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Will OMV get away with palming off the dying Maari oil field to Jadestone Energy without cleaning up their mess?
OMV’s had enough of oil. Well, that’s what they say. But, um, no..not quite. It seems they’ve just had enough of the Maari oil field. They’d like to keep drilling…
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50,000 strong petition calls for an end to bottom trawling on seamounts
Wellington, 18 November 2020: A coalition of environmental groups delivered a 50,000 strong petition to Parliament today, calling on the Government to ban bottom trawling on seamounts.
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Covid-19 Build Back Better: A disability lens on digging deep
I’m a blind twenty-something from Aotearoa, and when the Covid pandemic hit in March, I got lucky.
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I love fugly
So remind me again, what’s so great about oceans? Beaches, yeah great, sunsets, romantic walks, sand between the toes.
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Even ScoMo’s asking where our climate action on farming is
Australian PM Scott Morrison has highlighted NZ’s failure to commit to reducing farm methane emissions. The perfect riposte is to demand our Government fix that huge methane and nitrous hole in our climate policy...
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Final battle to prevent South Taranaki Bight seabed mine hits Supreme Court
Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) and Greenpeace will be in the Supreme Court tomorrow for the last battle in a long fight to oppose a seabed mine in the South Taranaki Bight.
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Coke’s plastic report: Must do better
Just about nobody on the entire planet is saying, “hey, you know what, let’s do diddly squat about the plastic pollution crisis.”
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Why all human rights depend on a healthy environment
Recent revelations about the speed and scale of nature’s decline are hard to truly comprehend. Not since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago has the diversity and abundance of…
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Talley’s guilty of illegal trawls in world’s “most biologically rich ocean habitat”
Talley’s deepwater fishing division, Amaltal, has today been found guilty of illegally bottom trawling in the Hikurangi Marine Reserve off Kaikōura. This comes eight months after the vessel’s skipper was found guilty of the same offence.
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How to protect the oceans in three steps
The oceans near and far are in trouble. In the face of multiple stressors, from destructive fishing to climate change, the oceans are struggling to recover. But together we can protect them.
