-
Strikingly hopeful: A climate striker on what keeps her going
Auckland climate striker Rebecca is one of the bold young people speaking truth to power and taking on the companies that are making a profit from fuelling the climate crisis.
-
Dangerous nitrous oxide emissions rising fast – New study
An international team of scientists have just found that nitrous oxide emissions are rising much faster than had been previously thought. Nitrous oxide is a long-lived and potent greenhouse gas,…
-
Bottom trawled coral ‘ stolen by Talley’s ’ dumped at Parliament
Greenpeace protesters have covered Parliament lawn with replica coral this morning, calling on the Government to take urgent action on bottom trawling.
-
EPA releases OMV’s deceptive oil spill modelling
After months of mounting pressure, the Environmental Protection Authority has now publicly released oil giant OMV’s application to drill a high risk oil well off the Otago Coast. The EPA…
-
On the Zero Carbon Act: Don’t kick climate to touch
While the Zero Carbon Act was a hard-fought and important framework, let’s be under no illusion that our Parliament has now fixed the climate crisis or done its bit.
-
The Life and Death of the Guajajara
It is not news that the Brazilian government has been failing to protect Indigenous lands and Indigenous rights. But due to ever-increasing invasion of their territories by land grabbers, loggers…
-
Greenpeace response to Zero Carbon Bill
“We want to congratulate Generation Zero and all of the people who worked so hard to get the Zero Carbon Act across the line,” says Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner…
-
Shoddy NZ oil strategy released as 11,000 scientists issue global alert
On the same day as over 11,000 scientists from around the world have declared a climate emergency, the Government has quietly released a strategy that assumes decades more oil and…
-
Ghost fishing gear is suffocating ocean life
What is ghost fishing gear? And why is it such a big problem for our oceans?
-
Ghost Gear: The Abandoned Fishing Nets Haunting Our Oceans
An estimated 640,000 tonnes of abandoned or lost fishing equipment, or ‘ghost gear’, enter the ocean every year, equivalent in weight to more than 50 thousand double-decker buses.
