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The planet on fire – in photos
In many regions around the world, it’s that time of year again – fire season. But fire seasons are getting longer and more intense each year. Rising temperatures from our climate crisis dry out forests and other natural areas and make fires more likely.
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Drinking water from the heavily polluted Waikato river
You’d think supplying 1.6 million people and 40,000 businesses with drinking water during a dry year—and the Covid crisis—would be a priority. But recent documents we uncovered show that Watercare is 113th in the queue for Waikato’s water.
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How climate change made the melting of New Zealand’s glaciers 10 times more likely
Glaciers around the world are melting — and for the first time, we can now directly attribute annual ice loss to climate change.
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How does overfishing make climate change worse?
For the oceans, one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss is industrial-scale fishing. Fish stocks and ocean ecosystems are in decline in many parts of the world because of overfishing and destructive techniques.
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Reasons to be cheerful (in the long term)
Despite all the other flibberty gibbet behaviours that come at this stage of the electoral cycle, the latest polls give some hope that there’s a developing appetite for long term thinking.
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Sharks are thriving at the Kermadec Islands, but not the rest of New Zealand, amid global decline
Sharks are thriving at the Kermadec Islands, but not the rest of NZ, shows new report.
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Greenpeace welcomes Māori Party’s bold climate policy
Greenpeace is applauding the Māori Party for its bold climate change policy, and encourages Co-Leader Debbie Ngārewa-Packer to make climate change a bottom line in any potential coalition negotiations.
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Extreme heat and rain: thousands of weather stations show there’s now more of both, for longer
A major global update based on data from more than 36,000 weather stations around the world confirms that, as the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall are now more frequent, more intense, and longer.
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Rio Tinto departure makes decarbonisation projects ‘shovel ready’
Today’s Tiwai Point closure announcement will result in cheaper electricity for New Zealand households and the chance to swiftly decarbonise transport and industry, says Greenpeace.
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Govt must not pass up opportunity for transformation
Greenpeace says the newly released Government plan for the Primary Sector is a missed opportunity to build back better.
