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The most dangerous climate polluters are hiding in plain sight
These are the kinds of images you see time and time again on news specials about the climate crisis. Easy to visualise, easy to see around us, and easy to beat yourself up about. But the most dangerous climate polluters are much harder to see. And they like it that way.
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Greenpeace delivers medical aid to Indigenous communities in the Amazon to fight COVID-19
Greenpeace has teamed up with health professionals and other organisations to deliver 28 tonnes of desperately needed food and medical supplies to remote Indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Brazil’s government is failing Indigenous Peoples. Here’s how Greenpeace is helping
Greenpeace is helping to deliver equipment and medical supplies – including oxygen to Indigenous communities – in an effort to save lives.
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The women at the start of the Greenpeace journey
Almost 50 years ago, none of the people who took part in the voyage to protest nuclear testing near Amchitka Island in Alaska imagined that that act of courage would…
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Climate and health – what’s the link?
For those who missed it - a climate newsflash from the clever people keeping us safe from Covid - if we make the improvements we need to keep the world from overheating, we also improve the health and wellbeing of our nation - big time.
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COVID-19 Build Back Better: Audacious Hope & Climate Dreaming in times of a Climate Crisis
When I was originally tasked with writing a blog post about how Aotearoa could possibly build back better from COVID-19, I was in a deep state of imposter’s syndrome. Truthfully…
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5 reasons we need wildlife in order to survive
Mainly due to human pressures, the planet is losing species – its biodiversity – at an alarming rate, thought to be comparable only to the 5th mass extinction 65 million years ago.
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Book Review: The Unintended Consequences of Taming Nature
Elizabeth Kolbert lives her stories. In the course of reporting her new book, “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” she got hit by a leaping carp near…
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Greenpeace calls for lower nitrate limit
Greenpeace has today launched a petition calling on the Minister of Health and the Government’s new water regulating body to lower the recognised ‘safe’ limit for nitrates in drinking water…
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2019 Greenpeace NZ Annual Impact Report
For Greenpeace New Zealand, 2019 was the year to deal with some unfinished business with the oil industry. We had achieved a historic win in 2018 with the government ban on issuing new oil and gas exploration permits (except onshore Taranaki). It was a long hard-fought campaign but, all of us together, we did it.