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More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: the world’s climate change progress since 2019 is (mostly) bad news
Back in 2019, more than 11,000 scientists declared a global climate emergency. They established a comprehensive set of vital signs that impact or reflect the planet’s health, such as forest…
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This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know
Earth has warmed 1.09℃ since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet by the…
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The global water cycle has become more intense, and that makes New Zealand’s wet regions wetter, and dry ones drier
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has delivered a sobering update on how much the Earth has warmed and how the climate system is responding.
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Rising seas and melting glaciers: these changes are now irreversible, but we have to act to slow them down
After three years of writing and two weeks of virtual negotiations to approve the final wording, the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms…
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Irving and Dorothy Stowe: Mentors to a movement
Two of the Greenpeace founders, Irving and Dorothy Stowe, grew up during world wars, the dawn of a global peace movement, and a non-violent direct action movement inspired by Mahatma…
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Climate fires burning from the Amazon and Turkey to California
From Turkey to Brazil, and Russia to the US, we’re seeing fires consuming our forests, killing wildlife and threatening our woodlands’ ability to trap and store carbon, a defense against…
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Milk & Money: intensive dairying in New Zealand
We’re always on the lookout for good documentaries and Milk & Money is exactly that. It’s an in-depth look at intensive dairying in New Zealand and how the dairy.
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From Pacific nuclear testing to Pacific seabed mining
Greenpeace has a long history in the Pacific and with the struggle to end nuclear testing there, and then to get justice for the people impacted by nuclear fallout. Today I work on a campaign to stop deep sea mining in the Pacific and see many parallels.
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Pua Lay Peng, a frontline defender against plastic pollution in Malaysia
A chemist, Pua had moved back to Jenjarom where she witnessed the devastating impact that the plastic recycling industry was having on her community. With over 40 illegal plastic factories emitting toxic gases into the air and polluting the local rivers and waterways, they were making people very sick.
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Aggressive marketing has driven the rise of the double-cab ute on New Zealand streets — time to hit the brakes?
Super-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.