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Climate extremes make NZ’s supply chains highly vulnerable – it’s time to rethink how we grow and ship food
Supermarket customers around New Zealand are noticing gaps in the grocery aisles that have nothing to do with the global pandemic or Ukraine war. It’s clear domestic food supply chains…
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Oppenheimer’s warning lives on: international laws and treaties are failing to stop a new arms race
J. Robert Oppenheimer – the great nuclear physicist, “father of the atomic bomb”, and now subject of a blockbuster biopic – always despaired about the nuclear arms race triggered by…
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Plastic pollution in some NZ lakes is comparable to northern hemisphere lakes in highly populated areas, global study finds
The level of microplastic pollution in New Zealand lakes is comparable with those in the US or Europe, despite much lower population densities, according to our global analysis of plastic pollution in freshwater lakes and reservoirs.
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The Pacific is uniting against deep sea mining
Bula vinaka from Suva! I’m currently with the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior that just arrived in Fiji to hear stories of Pacific voices calling for climate justice.
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Barbie, Electric Cars, and Ken’s SUV – As a Barbie Girl in a warming world, is there a better way to the real world?
As global warming intensifies, Barbie cruises in her pink electric vehicle ride to the real world. Studies reveal that cars are parked 95% of the time and contribute significantly to the climate crisis. While Barbie shifts to a small electric vehicle, Ken still clings to a big SUV. But to be truly sustainable, we need…
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El Niño combined with global warming means big changes for New Zealand’s weather
El Niño is officially here, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and with it comes a change from the La Niña weather patterns New Zealand has experienced for the past three years.
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Indigenous Pacific leaders call on countries to support ban on deep sea mining
Voices against deep sea mining have never been so loud - from the fishing sector to financiers, indigenous peoples, scientists and big business.
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Barbie vs Oppenheimer: two diametrically opposed universes that remind us of two existential threats
“Barbenheimer” is probably the film event of the year. The simultaneous premieres of two Hollywood blockbusters by two cult directors: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, a pink fantasy comedy and Christopher Nolan’s…
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Defusing Disaster: Oil transfer from FSO SAFER to turn off the Ticking Time Bomb
After more than eight years and numerous false alarms, the hazardous operation to remove more than a million barrels of oil from the decaying supertanker the FSO SAFER, in the Red…
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Time for real action on Big Dairy’s climate pollution
Climate change has been in the news a lot lately. And so it should be. But New Zealand's biggest climate polluter, intensive dairy, is pushing to continue polluting for as long as possible.
