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100 Million Dead Sharks – it’s not all about Shark Fin Soup
Shark fin soup is well-known. When we hear that100 million sharks are killed every year by the fishing industry, some people may assume it’s because of shark fin soup. But these…
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The women at the start of the Greenpeace journey
Almost 50 years ago, none of the people who took part in the voyage to protest nuclear testing near Amchitka Island in Alaska imagined that that act of courage would…
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Greenpeace supports call for drawing ‘Pacific Blue Line’ against Deep Sea Mining
Greenpeace is standing in support of a Pacific-led push to draw a Blue Line against the emerging Deep Sea Mining industry, the organisation said today.
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Yes, Australia is a land of flooding rains. But climate change could be making it worse
Over the past three years, I’ve been working on the forthcoming report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I’m a climate scientist who contributed to the chapter
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Climate and health – what’s the link?
For those who missed it - a climate newsflash from the clever people keeping us safe from Covid - if we make the improvements we need to keep the world from overheating, we also improve the health and wellbeing of our nation - big time.
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Many New Zealand species are already at risk because of predators and habitat loss. Climate change makes things worse
Islands are biodiversity hotspots. They are home to 20% of the world’s plants and animals yet cover only 5% of the global landmass. But island ecosystems are highly vulnerable, threatened…
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Ocean can’t wait, urgent action needed, says Greenpeace following Chief sci report
A long-awaited science report into New Zealand’s commercial fisheries has highlighted a lack of data on the ocean is one of the key problems with managing it, admitting we still know “frighteningly little” about a space we take so much from.
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The ties that bind us, and move us forward
The greatest change has always been driven by movements of people organizing from the ground up – from local level battles to facing global crises – to challenge the status quo and raise the ceiling of social progression.
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Social Inertia: Why is change so hard?
I saw the danger / yet I walked / along the enchanted way.
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COVID-19 Build Back Better: Audacious Hope & Climate Dreaming in times of a Climate Crisis
When I was originally tasked with writing a blog post about how Aotearoa could possibly build back better from COVID-19, I was in a deep state of imposter’s syndrome. Truthfully…
