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Aggressive marketing has driven the rise of the double-cab ute on New Zealand streets — time to hit the brakes?28 July 2021Super-sized light trucks have landed in Aotearoa New Zealand. Eight out of the ten top-selling passenger vehicles are now utes or SUVs, with two-thirds registered for personal use.
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Quiz: can you spot the fake nature facts hidden in a bunch of real ones?23 July 2021Can you tell fantasy animals and made-up facts from real ones? Test your nature knowledge with this quiz.
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Cyclists are people like you, on bikes22 July 2021Something 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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A significant number of New Zealanders overestimate sea-level rise — and that could stop them from taking action19 July 2021Following a recent storm surge in Wellington, some media coverage expressed surprise that 30cm of sea-level rise – an unavoidable amount projected to happen by the middle of this century…
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From Parihaka to He Puapua: it’s time Pākehā New Zealanders faced their personal connections to the past17 July 2021Whenever 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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10 little-known shark facts for shark week15 July 2021It's Shark Week, but every week, sharks suffer from different threats. Up to 100 million sharks disappear every year, due to destructive fishing by humans and the impact of climate…
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Aurelie’s Legacy: Generations of Ocean Protection13 July 2021Vital 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…
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Quiz: Test your knowledge with our quick plastic quiz!12 July 2021Test your knowledge with our quick plastic quiz! We’ve all seen the devastating images of pristine beaches covered with plastic waste, of turtles and other marine life killed by ingesting…
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Lawyers challenge New Zealand’s proposed emissions budgets as inconsistent with the 1.5℃ goal8 July 2021New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission is facing its first legal hurdle, as a group of 300 climate-concerned lawyers seek judicial review of the processes it used to calculate carbon budgets…
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Indigenous communities in danger of being erased from the map in Brazil2 July 2021“We were already on this land before Brazil was Brazil,” —Eliseu Lopes, Indigenous leader