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How the new human right to a healthy environment could accelerate New Zealand’s action on climate change
Last week’s formal recognition by the United Nations Human Rights Council that the right to a healthy environment is an essential human right has been heralded as a historic victory for environmental protection and an important step forward for the world’s most vulnerable people.
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Microplastics are in the air we breathe and in Earth’s atmosphere, and they affect the climate
The magnitude of microplastics’ influence on climate varies in our climate model simulations, depending on assumptions we made about how the plastic fragments are distributed throughout Earth’s atmosphere.
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The story behind an Italian single-use plastic bottle
I recently had the chance to visit the Adriatic coast as part of a ship tour Greenpace Italy organises every year with our partners at the Exodus Foundation, researchers at CNR-IAS and…
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It’s time to respect the rāhui
Kia tau ngā manaakitanga a te mea ngaroki runga ki tēnā, ki tēnā o tātouKia mahea te hua mākihikihi
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What can we do?
At the University of Minnesota Dr. Nate Hagens teaches an honours course called “Reality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament.” Hagens operated his own hedge fund on Wall Street until he…
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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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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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Rigged: a workers’ oil story
The oil industry has boomed in Scotland over the past 50 years but things are changing. Unemployment among oil workers has grown, food bank usage has risen and communities are losing out.
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New Zealand exporting plastic waste to developing nations at an alarming rate
Following the release of new data on the quantity of New Zealand’s plastic waste exports to many developing nations, Greenpeace Aotearoa is renewing its call for a ban on plastic…
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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.