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A defining moment in history: 40 years ago, the Marshall Islands fought to protect their future and defied the US
This is the story behind “Operation Exodus” - a ship called Rainbow Warrior and an island community, versus a huge colonial power that discredited the act as “manipulation” for Greenpeace’s anti-nuclear agenda.
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Did Jacinda Ardern take politics out of climate with the Zero Carbon Act as she claims?
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave an interview to the Guardian newspaper recently about her new book in which she says she succeeded in “removing the politics from…
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A Rock-Solid Stand for the Ocean: Greenpeace France Blocks Bottom Trawling
Last month, Greenpeace France took a stand and, in a valiant act of environmental activism, took matters into their own hands. At sunrise on Wednesday, May 21, activists aboard the…
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Luxon’s War on the Climate – a deliberate effort to increase emissions
The Luxon Government claims they are serious about climate change. They say they are simply taking a different approach to cutting emissions, such as using price signals rather than regulations.
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Antarctica’s sea ice is changing, and so is a vital part of the marine food web that lives within it
Antarctica is the world’s great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth’s climate system is largely powered by the annual freeze and melt of millions of square kilometres of sea…
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Don’t let Luxon poison your porridge
Your toast and your porridge might soon have an unwelcome new ingredient. Let the Government know what you think of raising the Roundup/glyphosate limits on food.
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NZ First or ACT first – Will Winston bend the knee to the Regulatory Standards Bill?
The Government passed the first reading of David Seymour’s Regulatory Standards Bill through Parliament and alarmingly, it appears that NZ First might support it all the way to becoming law.
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ACT’s regulatory standards bill threatens to pass, despite Treaty and legal doubts
With the ACT Party’s Regulatory Standards Bill now before the Finance and Expenditure Committee, having passed its first reading in parliament last week, parallels with the now abandoned Treaty Principles…
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Justice for the Marshall Islands
40 years of solidarity with the Marshallese people in their intergenerational fight for nuclear and environmental justice, reparations, and accountability from US nuclear weapons testing.
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Budget 2025: The Handmaid’s Tale meets Don’t Look Up
In the middle of the global climate emergency, the New Zealand government is proposing to spend $200m of taxpayer money investing in new fossil gas production. Not renewable energy, not…