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5 reasons we need wildlife in order to survive
Mainly due to human pressures, the planet is losing species – its biodiversity – at an alarming rate, thought to be comparable only to the 5th mass extinction 65 million years ago.
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What is fossil capital? And how does it fuel social injustice
The world we live in has been built around an economic system that prioritises never-ending growth over the welfare of people and the planet. This system plunders our planet’s resources
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Book Review: The Unintended Consequences of Taming Nature
Elizabeth Kolbert lives her stories. In the course of reporting her new book, “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” she got hit by a leaping carp near…
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Reality check: Saving wildlife and biodiversity means saving ourselves
If Nature were to stroll into a doctor’s office for a check up today, what do you think the prognosis would be? The symptoms are obvious: polluted life-giving waterways, devastating…
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NZ’s Climate Change Commission needs to account for the huge potential health benefits of reducing emissions
The Climate Change Commission’s recent draft report and recommendations has helped to kick-start an extremely important process.
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Is Greenpeace a charity in New Zealand?
People often ask whether Greenpeace is a charity so, for the record, the answer is yes. Greenpeace is a charity in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Wolves, Beavers and the interconnectedness of everything
Kids at home, empty streets and dressing from the waist up, New Zealand’s brief dip back into lockdown last week threw us an interesting reminder - people’s lives are deeply intertwined.
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The biggest little whales
Pygmy blue whales are a tropical subspecies of the blue whale, and though they are only a few metres shorter in length, reaching about 24m as opposed to the 30m, they are often about half of the overall weight of a blue whale in the Antarctic.
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How the polar vortex is causing temperatures to plummet and what we can do
Record-breaking frosty temperatures, ice and heavy snowfalls have gripped huge areas of the Northern Hemisphere this winter. For example, cities in East Asia such as Beijing and Seoul shivered in…
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How much longer can we take our water for granted?
The first message I sent home from New Zealand was about tap water. Sounds weird. True story.