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Extreme heat and rain: thousands of weather stations show there’s now more of both, for longer
A major global update based on data from more than 36,000 weather stations around the world confirms that, as the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall are now more frequent, more intense, and longer.
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Bringing the lessons of Covid-19 to bear on New Zealand’s 2020 Election
The Covid-19 pandemic taught us many lessons. Perhaps the most important was how connected everything is. When an impulsive choice to go out to see friends during lockdown might mean…
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Climate explained: what the world was like the last time carbon dioxide levels were at 400ppm
Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change.
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Greenpeace delivers medical aid to Indigenous communities in the Amazon to fight COVID-19
Greenpeace has teamed up with health professionals and other organisations to deliver 28 tonnes of desperately needed food and medical supplies to remote Indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Why New Zealand needs cameras on commercial fishing boats
Last week, leaked audio revealed the Minister of Fisheries, Stuart Nash, blaming NZ First for delays to cameras on commercial fishing boats.
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Why the Meridian Energy hydro dam spilling scandal shows it’s time to democratise our energy
Meridian Energy has been caught red-handed ripping off New Zealanders, for its own gain.
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Secret recording confirms NZ First blocking ocean protection
Following confirmation from Stuart Nash that NZ First is blocking ocean protection, it’s time to exclude them from fishing and ocean protection decisions, says Greenpeace.
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Super soil and damning dams: how can Kiwi farmers cope with drought?
Paddocks full of dry, brown grass. Urban drinking water dams shrunk to puddles. Farmers frustrated and scared amid the stress of not having enough food for their animals. Right across…
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Submission on the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill
We've been calling on the Government to Build Back Better in New Zealand's Covid recovery. Now there has been a development.
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Fast-track Bill dodges Govt climate test
Greenpeace says the Government is dodging its own guidelines to push through a new fast-track covid law.