Climate Change
State of emergency declared in Tairāwhiti as severe floods hit
A Red weather warning has been issued.
Auckland gets over a month’s worth of rain in 10 hours
More than 4000 lightning strikes happened in one hour in Auckland and the lower North Island.
NZer caught up in Australia floods: ‘everything is gone’
“Imagine the ocean turning up in your lounge one day and just sweeping everything away.”
NZ scientists find solutions for the PPE waste crisis
The group hope that the innovations can help clean up the planet's medical waste.
Coral reefs are facing much bigger issues than your sunscreen
It's not all about you okay?
Climate change splitting up albatross couples
New research shows climate change is making it more likely for the usually monogamous albatross to leave their lifelong partners.
Led by Dr Francesco Ventura, the…
Tikanga is crucial to our response to the climate crisis
New research shows tikanga Māori practices are crucial to responding to climate challenges
Māori youth are capturing climate change through photos
Professional photographers are paired with Māori youth in an effort to combat climate change
World’s largest climate conference ends with watered-down pledge to ‘phase down’ coal
The original wording was to ‘phase out’.
‘We are not drowning, we are fighting’: powerful indigenous speeches from the global climate…
"This COP, learn our histories, listen to our stories, honour our knowledge."
‘I’m using petrol until it runs out’: The problem with car culture in NZ
Will our car culture stop us from meeting our climate goals?
‘Bullshit and hot air’: Why climate campaigners are angry about Emissions Reduction plan
The Government is asking for more feedback on its Emissions Reduction plan & Greenpeace isn’t happy.
Dairy can’t manage its crap, but innovative farmers are trying to fix that
If I take a shit in a field, it's not a huge deal. But what if 20,000 people take a shit in a field?
Breaking down the huge UN new climate change report: it's grim
The latest climate change report shows climate change is here, it’s going to get worse.
Why our dairy cows produce more emissions than our cars | Milk and Money | Episode 4
“The right thing to do is for all us dairy farmers to try to pull our weight."
Our soil quality has been declining for decades. Dairy is making it worse | Milk and Money…
“In a teaspoon of soil, there are as many microbes than there are mammals on the planet."
Why we may not need cows to make milk | Milk and Money | Episode 6
Half of calves in New Zealand are killed within days or weeks of being born.
Hundreds evacuated in South Island after a weekend of severe rain and flooding
Hundreds of people have spent another night away from their homes on the South Island’s West Coast.
Parts of the Amazon now emitting more carbon than they absorb
Some regions of the Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb.
300 lawyers are suing the Climate Change Commission for not doing enough
They say current aims “will fail to achieve our goal of avoiding catastrophic climate change”.
A weather expert explains how severe floods are linked to climate change
This article was originally published on the 5th of May 2021.
The heavy rainstorm we saw in Canterbury in May has been called a one-in-100-year downpour, but…
NZ’s glaciers are melting seven times faster than they used to
Researchers at the University of Toulouse, France, analysed half a million satellite stereo images to study mass changes of glaciers worldwide.
Globally they estimate glaciers lost 267…
Students at school strike 4 climate tell us what changes we need right now
“We are wanting our government to take some accountability to move forward and do something."
What you need to know about the Climate Commission report
Here are the major points from the Climate Commission report.
Using poetry to talk about the climate crisis
Jordan Hamel is a writer, poet and award-winning poetry slam performer. He is one of the co-editors of the Climate Change Poetry Anthology, due to be…
The director of I Am Greta tells us why we need to stop being polite about climate change
I Am Greta is a revealing documentary about the life of climate activist Greta Thunberg.
How to rebuild a more sustainable New Zealand after Covid-19
Lockdown has shown we can take bold action that would have previously been unthinkable.
Podcast: Four wāhine kōrero about how they found their voice
The theme of the night was 'How I found my voice'.
Green MP Golriz Ghahraman, activist and artist Qiane Matata-Sipu, Kāpiti Coast district councillor and Strike 4…
We can’t keep treating indigenous knowledge as a backup plan
Australia is on fire and the seas that surround Aotearoa are rising. Why are we waiting for a climate crisis to listen to indigenous knowledge?
Despite only…
What is a fire tornado?
The bushfires in Australia are giving us incomprehensible statistics, such as 7 million hectares burned and 1 billion animals killed. They are also delivering the rare…