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Wairakei Pastoral: The dairy company competing with Auckland for drinking water
One big dairy corporation, owned by millionaire rich-listers, is taking more water from the Waikato River than the entire city of Auckland
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Five facts for Wetlands Day
Whether you know them as bogs, swamps, mires, marshes or fens, wetlands do more for us than we realise. They’re the unsung heroes of our environment, and we’d better take care of them.
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NZ’s dirtiest industry – dairy – gets the biggest free pass in draft climate plan
Greenpeace has welcomed key parts of the Climate Change Commission’s report, but says the ambition falls short of what could be called “transformational” and continues a long tradition of giving…
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Government ‘covering tracks’ for NZ bottom trawler that destroyed ancient coral
The government is refusing to release details of an incident where a New Zealand bottom trawler pulled up protected species from a seamount, environmentalists said today.
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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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Overpopulation and Environmentalism
The flawed, dangerous idea of population control redirects the blame for societal problems to those with the least power to address them. Like any racist narrative, ‘population control’ has real-life consequences.
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Talley’s & Fonterra: polluting our water
What’s with big companies thinking they can have a free pass to pollute our rivers and oceans?
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Nuclear weapons are illegal at last
Nuclear arms are the most destructive, indiscriminate and monstrous weapons ever produced – but today, we can all celebrate a major milestone in the long march towards peace: the Treaty…
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The system isn’t broken, ‘Davos man’ built it this way. So let’s change it
There will not be the usual flood of private jets heading to Davos in Switzerland next week.
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New Zealand continues to disregard biodiversity targets, lobbies for more bottom trawling
New Zealand is fast developing a reputation as a South Pacific vandal, says Greenpeace, as the government continues to fight against increased ocean protection.
