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Covid taught us that to protect nature, is to protect ourselves
The New Zealand Government’s health-first approach to collective wellbeing in the face of Covid-19 is commendable. They need to follow that logic through to the coming economic rebuild and beyond.
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Where did 5,500 tonnes of discarded face masks end up?
It’s been over six months since COVID-19 swept across and ravaged the world, and in an effort to contain this unprecedented outbreak, face masks have become a necessity. However, an…
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A personal account from Greenpeace in Beirut: “I wished it was just a nightmare”
It was the end of the day and I was on my final email. I was working from home in my apartment in a suburban area east of Beirut –…
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Greenpeace response to Govt’s plastic plan announcement
Greenpeace is welcoming the Government’s announcement today of a plan to phase out more single-use plastics, but is calling for the ban to cover a wider range of products, including…
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Hand sanitiser recipes that could help protect against coronavirus
To slow the spread of coronavirus we’re being told to wash our hands more, preferably with soap and water, or failing that, with hand sanitisers. The resulting rush to buy…
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Greenpeace wins High Court charity case appeal
The High Court has ruled today that Greenpeace is entitled to register as a charity and that the Charities Registration Board was in error for declining the environmental campaigning organisation’s…
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Meet Te Whānau o Te Moananui o Toi Te Huatahi: the trust fighting to safeguard their tupuna moana
Te Whānau o Te Moananui o Toi Te Huatahi is a new trust formed of Kelly Klink and Pita Rikys. The trust's mission is to right some historic wrongs. Here Kelly Klink explains their vision for the future of ocean protection in Aotearoa, and what they're up against to achieve it.
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How climate change made the melting of New Zealand’s glaciers 10 times more likely
Glaciers around the world are melting — and for the first time, we can now directly attribute annual ice loss to climate change.
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How does overfishing make climate change worse?
For the oceans, one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss is industrial-scale fishing. Fish stocks and ocean ecosystems are in decline in many parts of the world because of overfishing and destructive techniques.
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Reasons to be cheerful (in the long term)
Despite all the other flibberty gibbet behaviours that come at this stage of the electoral cycle, the latest polls give some hope that there’s a developing appetite for long term thinking.
