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Fonterra funded research tries to bury nitrate cancer risk
Greenpeace says research released by ESR and co-funded by dairy giant Fonterra excludes the most at-risk rural communities in its investigation into bowel cancer risk from nitrate in drinking water.
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Submission on the Natural and Built Environments Bill
As our core environmental law, the new Natural and Built Environments Act must be bold, forward looking, ambitious and, above all, must have a thriving natural world at its heart. And accessible public participation must be mainstreamed into all aspects of the Bill.
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Film review: The story of Greenpeace and the story Greenpeace tells
Brian Fitzgerald reviews the documentary 'How To Change the World' exploring the origins of Greenpeace.
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Climate fires burning from the Amazon and Turkey to California
From Turkey to Brazil, and Russia to the US, we’re seeing fires consuming our forests, killing wildlife and threatening our woodlands’ ability to trap and store carbon, a defense against…
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Slowing the circular economy
COVID has underlined the deep mutual connection and reliance we have with the natural world. It is also showing that our current socio-economic systems — driven by hectic lifestyles, mindless…
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Greenpeace calls foul on INEOS rugby sponsorship deal
Greenpeace is calling foul on NZ Rugby’s decision to sign a sponsorship deal with the oil and plastic polluting petrochemical giant INEOS.
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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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New IPCC climate report will add pressure on Ardern for stronger action on agriculture
As 2021 shapes up to be yet another year marked by deadly floods, heat waves, devastating wildfires and record droughts, world governments will soon be convening to receive a new…
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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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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…
