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How you can help protect Patagonia from Shell and Total
When you picture Patagonia, what comes to mind? Mountainous vistas as far as the eye can see? Majestic pumas? Giant, dinosaur-like Condors? Big Lakes and roaring rivers? Perhaps Indigenous Mapuche…
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School strikes take off as legacy from ‘grandfather of climate science’
The death of one of the world’s leading climate scientists this week and the swiftly expanding school climate strikes is symbolic of a generational baton change in the fight against…
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National and Todd Muller fail to grasp climate change is a major challenge for New Zealand
While Tasmania and Tasman District are terrorised by fire and the temperature tally for 2018 confirms the last four calendar years as the hottest on record, National’s Climate Change Spokesperson,…
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Three reasons why plastics won’t save the oil industry
As electric vehicles and cheap solar panels cut into the demand for petroleum-based fuels, an increasingly desperate oil industry has been banking on plastics to drive future demand growth. Here are three…
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How long is the tail wagging the fish in NZ’s fisheries management?
What’s that thing people say? You don’t know what you’ve got until they’re gone. Strangely I’m starting to feel that way about National’s former minister for primary industries. Bring back…
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The youth have seen enough
Why are global politics so dysfunctional that the UN climate meeting requires a 15-year-old Swedish grade school student to speak the truth? Why does a coalition of youth, outside the…
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In difficult times, hope is an act of courage
Flooding in Japan, unprecedented monsoons in India, a nearly 30% increase in rainfallthroughout the Americas and 40% across Europe. Africa is seeing deadly droughtsacross Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Australia, Greece, Sweden, Portugal and the…
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5 young activists who inspired us this year
When it comes to climate ambition, these young people put world leaders to shame. This is Zero Hour’s inaugural Youth Climate March on Washington D.C. Led by 16-year-old Jamie Margolin,…
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The best images of 2018 from Greenpeace’s ships
2018 has been an iconic year for Greenpeace’s ships. The Rainbow Warrior, Esperanza, and Arctic Sunrise has sailed from all corners of the world – from Antarctica to Hawaii, Taiwan…
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Thank you for 2018!
Here’s to everything you’ve done in 2018, and to a busy year ahead! Please watch and share this video to help us say thank you to the rest of the…