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Food waste and regenerative farming: from rubbish to resource
With lockdown keeping hospitality businesses closed, New Zealanders are cooking and eating at home much more than usual. While in many ways that’s a good thing, unfortunately it also means…
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How food waste can help bring about a healthy farming future
A new report by Greenpeace and The Rubbish Trip details how food and organic waste can be converted to high-quality compost to fuel a shift to regenerative farming.
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The power of photography as we enter ‘code red for humanity’
The world is on fire, under water, and in trouble. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report states that climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, a fact…
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More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: the world’s climate change progress since 2019 is (mostly) bad news
Back in 2019, more than 11,000 scientists declared a global climate emergency. They established a comprehensive set of vital signs that impact or reflect the planet’s health, such as forest…
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This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know
Earth has warmed 1.09℃ since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet by the…
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The global water cycle has become more intense, and that makes New Zealand’s wet regions wetter, and dry ones drier
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has delivered a sobering update on how much the Earth has warmed and how the climate system is responding.
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Rising seas and melting glaciers: these changes are now irreversible, but we have to act to slow them down
After three years of writing and two weeks of virtual negotiations to approve the final wording, the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms…
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Delaying climate action on agriculture no longer an option
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has today released a report summarising the latest scientific understanding of the climate crisis, giving a stark warning of where we are headed…
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Climate fires burning from the Amazon and Turkey to California
From Turkey to Brazil, and Russia to the US, we’re seeing fires consuming our forests, killing wildlife and threatening our woodlands’ ability to trap and store carbon, a defense against…
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Aggressive marketing has driven the rise of the double-cab ute on New Zealand streets — time to hit the brakes?
Super-sized light trucks have landed in Aotearoa New Zealand. Eight out of the ten top-selling passenger vehicles are now utes or SUVs, with two-thirds registered for personal use.
