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A seamount is a seamount, no matter what Sealord tells you
Seamounts, or underwater mountains, are biodiversity hotspots and home to a stunning array of deep sea marine life. Every seamount should be protected not just the tall ones.
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Limits to Growth: 50 years later
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of Greenpeace, and this year the 50th anniversary of a book that set much of the ecological agenda for the five decades since: The Limits…
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Sea level rise data highlights the need to act on dairy pollution
Explosive new sea level rise data released on the weekend highlights the urgency of acting on climate pollution from New Zealand’s intensive dairy industry
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Intensive winter grazing rule changes cave in to intensive dairy
Greenpeace says the Government’s updated intensive winter grazing rules cave in to intensive dairy and are a missed opportunity to improve environmental management and animal welfare. Greenpeace Aotearoa…
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Greenpeace legal submission on “greenwashed” Kapuni hydrogen project
Greenpeace has filed notice to be heard as an Interested Party on a legal appeal by Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui opposing a Kapuni fertiliser project given approval under the Ardern Government’s Covid-19 fast-track consenting legislation.
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Greenpeace joins legal action on greenwashed Kapuni hydrogen fertiliser project
Greenpeace has filed notice to be heard as an Interested Party on a legal appeal by Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui opposing a Kapuni fertiliser project given approval under the Ardern…
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There are too many cows. Halve the herd.
Since the start of the dairy boom in the 1990s, cow numbers in New Zealand have doubled. Read this op-ed to find out more
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Why is the Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 so important for biodiversity?
Biodiversity, or “biological diversity”, is a term used to describe the enormous variety of life on our planet. Biodiversity is crucial to life on our planet, where all life forms…
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Chernobyl: Putin’s war in Ukraine renews nuclear dangers and memories of 1986 disaster
Tuesday 26 April marks the anniversary of one of the most significant events in the history of Ukraine and all of Europe. On that day in 1986, a routine safety test…
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The game changers on climate
Earlier this month leading climate scientists issued their landmark report on climate solutions, directly to world governments, saying it’s “now or never” if we are to meet the Paris Agreement 1.5°C warming