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Deep Trouble: The murky world of the deep sea mining industry
Our new report ‘Deep Trouble: The murky world of the deep sea mining industry’ reveals who stands to benefit and who is left at risk if governments allow deep sea mining exploitation to…
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Two thirds of tested rural bore water above cancer risk limit for nitrate
68% of bore water samples received were over the 0.87 mg/L limit linked to bowel cancer in a 2018 Danish study.
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Watch: Cancer Water – The nitrate contamination of rural water supplies in Aotearoa New Zealand
Watch: Cancer Water - The nitrate contamination of rural water supplies in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Case for freezing Abramov’s assets grows stronger as Ukraine peace flotilla nears Helena Bay
The justification for sanctioning New Zealand’s wealthiest Russian investor, Alexander Abramov is growing stronger by the day according to Greenpeace Aotearoa which has today released a list of points to…
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Joint NGO Submission on protecting sources of drinking water
Read our submission for the NES submission for the Sources of Human Drinking Water consultation
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Govt urged to support a strong global Plastics Treaty at UN meeting this week
The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) is discussing the possibility of a global, legally-binding treaty on plastic that covers its entire life cycle including extraction, production, transport, use, disposal and…
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Global Plastics Treaty: An Indigenous perspective on the plastic pollution crisis
Iwi Māori have a long whakapapa of resistance to the things that cause us harm, and this problem might seem like just another kaupapa amongst many injustices. But plastic pollution traverses national and generational boundaries, affecting every person and every ecosystem.
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#PlasticsTreaty: Why a global plastics treaty is essential to Africa
Decision-makers don’t have to look very far from where they are right now to understand why an ambitious global plastics treaty that covers the entire life cycle of plastics, is…
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Look up! Another warning by IPCC climate scientists is heading our way
Remember the Code Red for Humanity? It was the warning report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is composed of the world’s leading climate scientists. Issued last August, the…
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#PlasticsTreaty: Stop exploiting African and other global majority countries with ‘waste colonialism’
When Namibia declared its independence in 1990, it officially marked the end of colonialism on the African continent. But, while most African nations have been free of European rule for…