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Polluted, drained, and drying out: new warnings on New Zealand’s rivers and lakes
Shutterstock The latest environmental report on New Zealand’s lakes and rivers reiterates bleak news about the state of freshwater ecosystems, and warns that climate change will exacerbate existing threats. Almost…
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Govt report reveals freshwater crisis
Thursday, April 16: Greenpeace says today’s Ministry for the Environment report, Our Freshwater 2020, clearly shows that New Zealand’s rivers, lakes and freshwater are in crisis. The report cites the…
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Slime time! Action for our rivers
[share buttons] Remember watching that Saturday morning kids’ TV, ‘What Now?’ and seeing people get gunged with cold, sticky slime? All too often, what should be a refreshing dip in…
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Greenpeace gunges fertiliser company
Management at Ravensdown fertiliser company in Christchurch are arriving at work this morning to discover they’ve been slimed. The main entranceway to the head office in Christchurch, the car park,…
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NZ’s rising climate emissions and Jacinda Ardern’s big chance to cut them
When it signed onto the Paris Climate Agreement, New Zealand pledged to increase its net greenhouse gas emissions by 10% by 2030, compared to 2005. The latest NZ Government report…
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Greenpeace puts Jacinda in a dirty Canterbury river
Hoardings are going up today in one of the country’s dirtiest rivers – to remind the Prime Minister of the promises she made about New Zealand waterways. Three billboards –…
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NZIER says no economic threat from new freshwater rules
New Zealand’s new fresh water regulation rules will have no major impacts on the national economy, according to an independent report just out. The report by independent economic consultancy New…
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Govt proposes cap on synthetic fertiliser to help save rivers
Greenpeace is welcoming the release of new measures to protect waterways, but says more needs to be done. The proposals in the Government’s Action for Healthy Waterways document include restrictions on dairy conversions, further farming intensification and the amount of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser farmers can put on fields.
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Greenpeace disturbed by directive to stop criticising companies
Tuesday, 12 March: Greenpeace has been told to take down “provocative” billboards about synthetic nitrogen fertiliser. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against a series of Greenpeace billboards…
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Why care about Nitrogen? Ask the United Nations
The United Nations has placed Nitrogen pollution on a hit list of the top five new environmental crises facing the globe. A move which has huge implications for New Zealand…
