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Jacinda Ardern’s ‘Nuclear-Free Moment’: Here’s three things that would make it a reality
New Zealanders have gone to the polls and decided to keep Jacinda Ardern at the helm for another three years. The Labour leader’s promise of kindness, hope and protecting nature…
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No more excuses for Government inaction on climate and nature
This morning New Zealanders are waking up to a fresh Government – one that has no good reason to put off action on nature and climate.
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MfE report shows Govt action needed to reduce agribusiness emissions
A new report released today by the Ministry for the Environment highlights how the climate crisis is already affecting Aotearoa, and underscores the need for urgent action on New Zealand’s biggest climate polluter, agribusiness
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The climate catastrophe and industrial dairying: our embarrassing aunty
Why is it that no-one can talk frankly about New Zealand’s dairy industry and the climate crisis? It seems to be out of bounds, like some embarrassing aunty at
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New Govt must phase out synthetic fertiliser: study finds it is driving climate catastrophe
Friday, 9 October: A major new paper, just published in the prestigious science journal Nature, shows that the overuse of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is pushing levels of nitrous oxide –…
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Brazil is up in flames—here’s why: industrial agriculture
It is no accident that there are fires all across Brazil, and it is no accident that the fires this year are worse than last. In fact, the fires in 2020 are the worst in the last decade.
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Greenpeace activists climb Fertiliser Association building to highlight industrial dairying’s role in climate crisis
Greenpeace activists have scaled the office building of the Fertiliser Association in Wellington, to highlight the role of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser in driving industrial dairying and furthering the climate crisis.
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Greenpeace welcomes Greens’ transport policy, calls for climate to be bottom line
Greenpeace has welcomed the Green Party’s transport policy announced today, but is seeking assurances that the Greens will make clean transport a bottom line in any potential coalition agreement.
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The most northerly youth strike ever!
I’m here in the Arctic to bear witness to the sea ice minimum, the moment in which the Arctic sea ice shrinks to its smallest size each year before expanding out again, and a key indicator of the health of the Arctic. This year it was the second smallest ever, following the pattern of recent…
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Arctic in decline: sea ice minimum reaches second lowest extent on record
According to the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, the 2020 Arctic sea ice minimum extent was likely reached on 15 September at 3.74 million square kilometers.
