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Plastic is now part of our planet’s fabric – a scientist and archaeologist discuss what happens next
Plastics have spread around the world through oceans, rivers and the air to every part of the planet.
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Something fishy in the Beehive between Talley’s and NZ First
It’s been revealed that tens of thousands of dollars in undeclared donations have been flowing from Talley’s fishing interests into the New Zealand First Foundation. This is huge. It’s been clear…
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OMV shafts itself: Drill pipe accident exposes oil exploration risks
OMV shafts itself: Drill pipe accident exposes oil exploration risks Wednesday, February 5: Reports that Austrian oil giant OMV has accidentally cut through its own drill shaft while exploring for oil…
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Roading announcement undercuts clean transport development
The Government’s plan to spend $5.3 billion on building new roads will slow down the development of clean transport in New Zealand, according to Greenpeace. The environmental organisation’s climate and…
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Shane Jones meats his match
You know how sometimes someone says something so outrageous, so out-of-proportion with what’s actually going on, that you just have to respond? That’s how we felt seeing NZ First MP…
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OMV oil drilling consent deeply hypocritical following Madrid climate summit
Greenpeace has slammed the Government for granting a controversial oil and gas drilling consent just days after championing New Zealand’s climate leadership at a global summit in Madrid. The Environmental…
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Systematically disrupting business as usual for OMV in 2019
2019 will go down in history as the year that together we took on Austrian oil giant OMV. From scaling their office building in Wellington to occupying their henchboat: we’ve…
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OMV blockade continues into second night
A ‘Climate Uprising’ blockade of Austrian oil driller OMV’s Taranaki headquarters has now held strong for 36 hours
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Ghost Gear: The Abandoned Fishing Nets Haunting Our Oceans
An estimated 640,000 tonnes of abandoned or lost fishing equipment, or ‘ghost gear’, enter the ocean every year, equivalent in weight to more than 50 thousand double-decker buses.
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The Wild West Atlantic
In the south-west Atlantic, along the Patagonian shelf, an area of international waters known as the Blue Hole is home to unique ecosystems and iconic species, such as the southern right whale and the elephant seal many of which have a fragile conservation status.
