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Milk & Money: intensive dairying in New Zealand
We’re always on the lookout for good documentaries and Milk & Money is exactly that. It’s an in-depth look at intensive dairying in New Zealand and how the dairy.
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From Pacific nuclear testing to Pacific seabed mining
Greenpeace has a long history in the Pacific and with the struggle to end nuclear testing there, and then to get justice for the people impacted by nuclear fallout. Today I work on a campaign to stop deep sea mining in the Pacific and see many parallels.
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Pua Lay Peng, a frontline defender against plastic pollution in Malaysia
A chemist, Pua had moved back to Jenjarom where she witnessed the devastating impact that the plastic recycling industry was having on her community. With over 40 illegal plastic factories emitting toxic gases into the air and polluting the local rivers and waterways, they were making people very sick.
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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.
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Quiz: can you spot the fake nature facts hidden in a bunch of real ones?
Can you tell fantasy animals and made-up facts from real ones? Test your nature knowledge with this quiz.
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Cyclists are people like you, on bikes
Something strange has happened to the perception of cyclists and cycling in the more than 200 years they’ve been around. Once a novelty, bike riding has moved from being a…
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A significant number of New Zealanders overestimate sea-level rise — and that could stop them from taking action
Following a recent storm surge in Wellington, some media coverage expressed surprise that 30cm of sea-level rise – an unavoidable amount projected to happen by the middle of this century…
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From Parihaka to He Puapua: it’s time Pākehā New Zealanders faced their personal connections to the past
Whenever I visit my mother in New Plymouth we drive out around the Taranaki coast to visit the old family farms, chugging along the South Road that was built to…
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10 little-known shark facts for shark week
It's Shark Week, but every week, sharks suffer from different threats. Up to 100 million sharks disappear every year, due to destructive fishing by humans and the impact of climate breakdown. One-third of the world’s known shark species have been listed as “threatened” species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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Aurelie’s Legacy: Generations of Ocean Protection
Vital Ocean Voices is a series of stories from people living in coastal communities around the Indian Ocean, providing first hand accounts of the impacts of destructive fishing, pollution and climate…
