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Professor Saeid Baroutian is focused on reducing healthcare waste.

New invention cleans up greenhouse gases

1 Dec 2025

Media release: University of Auckland | A new device that removes greenhouse gases released during surgery has been successfully trialled at an Auckland hospital.

Climate and carbon-removal researcher takes top honours at scientists' awards

27 Nov 2025

Dr Terry Isson has received the prestigious Beatrice Hill Tinsley Medal for research that is reshaping global understanding of Earth’s climate system and driving real-world carbon-removal solutions.

The strange and totally real plan to blot out the sun and reverse global warming

25 Nov 2025

A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge – and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.

Indigenous land cover shrinking as urban areas expand

24 Nov 2025

Indigenous land cover in Aotearoa New Zealand has continued its long-term decline, with new figures from Stats NZ revealing a further loss of native ecosystems as urban development and industrial activity increase.

Distinguished Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman

Building resilient cities in a time of climate change

13 Nov 2025

Media release: Otago University | Local and international experts are meeting in Wellington this month to share their knowledge on creating healthier, more resilient cities in the face of the challenges posed by climate change.

New national dataset to unlock blue carbon potential in NZ’s coastal wetlands

12 Nov 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Ministry for the Environment and the Nature Conservancy have collaborated on a dataset to inform a framework to potentially include coastal wetlands into compliance and voluntary carbon credit schemes.

Dr James Muirhead

How climate alters earthquake risk

12 Nov 2025

Media release | Falling water levels in one of Africa’s largest lakes, driven by changes in climate, led to a rise in earthquakes, according to research led by Dr James Muirhead of the University of Auckland.

AgriZero backs first nitrous oxide solution with $1.2m investment

6 Nov 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | A Kiwi ag-tech start-up developing a device for cows to wear to drastically cut nitrous oxide emissions has secured $1.2 million in government-industry funding.

New Indigenous-led Climate Institute opens at Lincoln University

6 Nov 2025

Media release | Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki Lincoln University proudly announces a pivotal new chapter in climate resilience with the establishment of the Kāika Institute of Climate Resilience.

AgriZero backs Aussie IVF innovator

3 Nov 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | The NZ government-led low carbon agriculture consortium AgriZero has invested A$1.5 million (NZ$1.7m) in a Queensland-based start-up looking to bring down the cost of inserting fertilised embryos into livestock.

Experts warn new science curriculum sidelines climate urgency

3 Nov 2025

Climate change education has been pushed too late and too lightly in the Government’s draft science curriculum, experts say, with students not formally learning about climate change until Year 10.

'Little to be hopeful about' – NZ scientists caution ahead of COP30

31 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Record heat, worsening climate impacts and global backsliding on emission reduction commitments have left some New Zealand climate experts with little optimism as COP30 approaches.

Waimauku flooding during Cyclone Gabrielle

$235 billion worth of NZ buildings exposed to flooding

30 Oct 2025

More than 750,000 New Zealanders live in locations exposed to one-in-100-year floods, according to a nationwide study which shows escalating flood risk.

Climate impacts hit NZ with increasing wild weather

23 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | New Zealand is facing a triple whammy of climate impacts today, with severe winds and rainfall predicted for much of the country while some areas are still dealing with wildfires ignited earlier in the week.

Difficult trade-offs ahead for climate adaptation

17 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | While climate impacts are already here, bringing the urgent need to accelerate effective adaptation now, the Government's newly minted adaptation framework still leaves important questions unanswered about who will pay.

NZ marine heatwaves could double in intensity under high-emissions pathway

16 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New projections show marine heatwaves will grow more intense around the North Island and more frequent around the South Island as the climate warms – raising risks for fisheries, aquaculture, coastal ecosystems and tourism.

NZ not 'holding the line' on wilding pine management – experts

15 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand is no longer “holding the line” against invasive threats, with the country’s scale, remoteness and rugged terrain making control costly and complex, one expert has said ahead of this week's Wilding Pines Conference.

NZ’s biggest ever climate meeting kicks off

14 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | The world's largest climate adaptation conference kicked off in Christchurch yesterday, with nearly 2000 attendees expected, making it potentially the biggest international climate meeting Aotearoa New Zealand will ever host.

Tom Logan

New tool to map risk, plan climate adaptation

14 Oct 2025

Researchers from the University of Canterbury have unveiled a new platform that aims to help communities, councils and organisations navigate climate change and plan for future events.

Govt releases updated emissions projections

13 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | The Ministry for the Environment has released updated emissions projections to 2050, which show significant differences to the Climate Change Commission's recent projections for the same period.

SPECIAL BULLETIN: Govt weakens methane target

12 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | The government has ignored the Climate Change Commission’s advice to strengthen methane targets and has instead weakened them significantly.

Climate change could strain GP access, research warns

10 Oct 2025

Media release - University of Canterbury | New UC research shows the serious effects that climate change could have on New Zealand’s health system, making it even harder for people to see a GP.

Nick Cradock-Henry

$12m climate-adaptation research push to turn plans into action

9 Oct 2025

The five-year Accelerating Adaptation to Climate Change programme, led by Earth Sciences New Zealand, aims to accelerate action on adaptation to climate impacts.

Climate change puts $180 billion of coastal property at risk – report

8 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand's sea temperatures are rising faster than the global average, marine heatwaves are intensifying, and more than 200,000 properties now sit in flood-prone areas – putting ecosystems, communities and the marine economy at risk.

WASP chairperson Chizuru Aoki,

Major UN climate conference in Christchurch next week

7 Oct 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | A major United Nations climate conference is coming to Christchurch next week, with organisers aiming to spotlight Pacific realities, Indigenous innovation, and the policies needed to scale climate adaptation across policy, finance and on-the-ground practice.

A passenger enjoys some up-close interaction with an Orca (Killer Whale) just outside Auckland.

Hauraki Gulf protection ‘insurance policy’ against climate change - expert

7 Oct 2025

The Hauraki Gulf Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill is due for its third reading in Parliament this week, extending protections of current marine reserves in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, including at Cathedral Cove, as well as adding new protected areas.

Wetlands project earns sustainability award for cleaner waterways

7 Oct 2025

A project constructing new wetlands to improve water quality has been recognised for environmental sustainability after delivering measurable water-quality gains.

naushad mohamed via Unsplash

Deep sea mining threatens sharks, rays and ghost sharks

6 Oct 2025

Mining the world’s deep seas for metals will likely threaten many species of sharks, rays and chimaeras (ghost sharks), according to researchers.

Countering the Trump administration’s attack on climate science

3 Oct 2025

The Trump Administration is attempting to remove the legal basis for U.S. action on greenhouse gas emissions by attacking the climate science that underpins it.

While many other countries sent leaders and ministers to the event, Carolyn Schwalger, New Zealand's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, spoke on the Government's behalf.

NZ quiet on climate target at UN meeting

2 Oct 2025

By Liz Kivi | New Zealand didn't mention its recently minted – but widely criticised – climate target for 2035 at a major multilateral climate meeting in New York last week, at an event which was ostensibly billed as a platform for leaders to present their new targets.

Warming oceans prompt major overhaul of how scientists monitor El Niño and La Niña

1 Oct 2025

Global warming is interfering with how Earth Sciences New Zealand monitors one of the world’s biggest climate drivers.

The current war on science, and who’s behind it

1 Oct 2025

Summers across the global north are now defined by flash floods, droughts, heat waves, uncontainable wildfires, and intensifying named storms, exactly as predicted by Exxon scientists back in the 1970s.

NZ's worst droughts of today could become average conditions this century - research

30 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Continuing global heating, plus a 10% drop in summer rain, could turn current drought extremes into average conditions, new research shows.

Westland's mayor raised concerns with the Lake Tsunami Hazard overlay being removed from Lake Mapourika, near Franz Josef.

Alarm over new West Coast hazard zones

24 Sep 2025

By Lois Williams, Local Democracy Reporter | Council and iwi leaders agonising over the West Coast ‘One Plan’ have tackled what planners describe as its most complicated and emotive chapter -- the one on Natural Hazards.

‘Con,’ ‘scam,’ ‘hoax’: Trump’s UN speech on climate

24 Sep 2025

The president used a large chunk of his hour-long speech to world leaders to condemn climate science and clean energy policies.

New report reveals 'shocking' kelp forest loss

22 Sep 2025

New Zealand’s underwater kelp forests are vanishing at pace, with a new Fisheries New Zealand report finding more than a third of the north-east coastline has shifted to kina barrens.

Turning squashed bugs into climate change data

19 Sep 2025

Media release: University of Auckland | What if the insects you hit with your car could contribute to research on climate change?

Science cuts will hold back climate research

17 Sep 2025

By Liz Kivi | A crisis in government-backed science funding is worsening, with dire implications for climate research in New Zealand, according to experts from the scientific community.

The ozone hole continues to recover thanks to international action

17 Sep 2025

Media release: World Meteorological Organization (WMO) | The Earth’s protective ozone layer is healing and the ozone hole in 2024 was smaller than in recent years, according to a new report.

Heather Peacocke speaking at this week's Climate Change and Business Conference

'Reframe' climate conversations - focus on thriving together, says advisor

11 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand must mirror its Covid-19 response if it wants to get buy-in from the public on climate action, according to Ministry for the Environment chief advisor Heather Peacocke.

Declining sea-ice is altering Antarctic food webs

11 Sep 2025

A new study shows a significant change in Antarctic phytoplankton over time that could cascade through the marine food web and affect the ocean’s capacity as a carbon sink.

Polar geoengineering ideas 'dangerous'

10 Sep 2025

Geoengineering will not save the polar regions from catastrophic meltdown, according to an expert.

Corporate pollution and biodiversity conservation don't mix

8 Sep 2025

While companies near newly created protected areas cut their toxic emissions, they do so by cutting jobs and production rather than cleaning up their act, according to new research.

Resources minister Shane Jones

Endeavour Fund research to shape NZ’s future

5 Sep 2025

Media release - New Zealand Government | A project that looks to harness the potential of supercritical geothermal energy is amongst 19 ambitious science programmes the Government is backing, Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Dr Shane Reti and Regional Development Minister Shane Jones announced today.

Forest carbon stores massive blind spot - study

4 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Aotearoa New Zealand’s planted forests hold significant deep soil organic carbon — with over half of it stored below 30 cm, and much of it over 1,000 years old.

Dr Roberta D'Archino diving amongst seaweed.

Aotearoa's waters teeming with undiscovered seaweed species, scientist says

4 Sep 2025

Media release - Earth Sciences New Zealand | Scientists believe they’re only seeing a snapshot of what could be living in our subantarctic islands and deep waters.

'Atrocious' and 'bizarre': experts slam Act Party's climate policy

3 Sep 2025

By Liz Kivi | The Act Party is promising to challenge New Zealand’s Paris Agreement climate target, while the coalition Government’s other minor partner, NZ First, also says it wants to reevaluate the country’s commitment to the international treaty.

Significant environmental law reform risks NZ going from leader to laggard

3 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New legislation must strengthen environmental safeguards and policy-makers must approach reform with extreme caution, according to Environmental Defence Society reform director Dr Greg Severinsen in a new report.

Scientists hail major breakthrough in developing holy grail of renewable energy: artificial photosynthesis

29 Aug 2025

New discovery addresses one of biggest obstacles to artificial photosynthesis – a technology long seen as a potential source of carbon-neutral fuels.

Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Shane Reti with Earth Sciences New Zealand Principal Scientist Chris Brandolino

New supercomputer 'critical' to tackling climate change impacts

28 Aug 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Earth Sciences New Zealand's new $35 million supercomputer will provide earlier and more frequent forecasts, as well as assess climate change impact to help understand New Zealand’s weather under long-term environmental shifts.

Adaptation
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Move to block lawsuits could strengthen climate case against Govt

Today 11:45am

By Liz Kivi | The Government’s plan to block climate lawsuits – while potentially fatal for one groundbreaking climate case – could actually bolster claims in another live climate case underway against the Government.

Agriculture
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Global shocks, fertiliser use and the importance of data: Insights on the environmental performance of agriculture

Today 11:45am

When shocks push producers to use less fertiliser, the environmental performance of agriculture tends to improve. But do improvements reflect the short-term effects of shocks or signal the beginning of a longer-term trend?

Airlines
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$30m airline fund risks ‘burning public money’ without lasting benefit – expert

20 Mar 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | A $30 million government package to support regional air routes risks delivering poor value for money while increasing emissions, according to transport strategist Tim Adriaansen.

Aviation
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Europe has 'maybe six weeks of jet fuel left', energy boss warns

20 Apr 2026

Stocks would reach a tipping point in June if Europe was unable to replace at least half of its imports from the Middle East, the organisation said in a report this week.

Biodiversity
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Conservation land open for voluntary carbon market schemes

Tue 12 May 2026

By Pattrick Smellie | The government is to open up the Crown-owned conservation estate to private investment in voluntary carbon market projects.

Biofuels
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Drax Power Plant, United Kingdom

Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds

21 Apr 2026

Research casts doubt on plans by the UK government to offer subsidies for carbon capture attached to the power source.

Carbon Credits
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Carbon News updates forward curve

Wed 13 May 2026

Carbon News has updated its ten-year NZU forward curve, following a recent rise in spot market prices, with NZUs rallying from about $34 in January to nearly $54 in early May.

Carbon News world
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Some inconvenient truths in bringing climate science to the judiciary

Today 11:45am

OPINION: Climate science had been knocking on the courthouse doors for quite some time when the Supreme Court of the United States finally invited it into the realm of legal action in 2007.

Carbon prices
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Drop in ETS forestry registrations

5 May 2026

By Liz Kivi | ETS forestry registrations have dropped off this year, with the new mandatory emissions return period, new land-use rules, and carbon price volatility all meaning participants aren’t rushing to register forestry in the emissions trading scheme.

Coal
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Gas tanks at Te Whakaraupō/Lyttelton Harbour

GIDI-style help cheaper than LNG: MBIE

Mon 11 May 2026

By Pattrick Smellie | Officials advised ministers last July that the lowest-cost way to free up gas for use during dry winters was to assist industrial gas users to switch to electricity.

Comment
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Waihora Forest, Gisborne – land currently for sale.

Tairāwhiti deserves better than weakened forestry rules

5 May 2026

OPINION: The government's proposed amendments to forestry standards, released yesterday, ignore the hard lessons learned in our region and ignore the voices that have fought hardest to protect it, writes Manu Caddie.

Construction
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Latest emissions inventory: ‘Something has gone very wrong’

16 Apr 2026

By Liz Kivi | New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2024 decreased by just 0.1% compared to 2023, in what an expert says is a “terrible result”, compared to faster progress in previous years.

COP
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Parliament Buildings, Budapest

What Magyar’s defeat of Orbán in Hungary means for climate and energy

21 Apr 2026

Hungary has played a disproportionate role in EU climate and energy policy in recent years, by repeatedly vetoing climate action and by delaying the phaseout of Russian fossil-fuel imports.

Emissions trading
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Australian operator to run NZ ETS auctions

Mon 11 May 2026

The Government has appointed an Australian company to run its Emissions Trading Scheme auctions, taking over from NZX, which has operated the ETS auctions since they began in 2021.

Energy
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World Nuclear Association chief to address NZ energy conference

Today 11:45am

The head of the World Nuclear Association will speak at a Hamilton energy conference as debate grows over whether emerging nuclear technologies could play a role in New Zealand’s future energy mix.

Extinction
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WWF-New Zealand chief executive Kayla Kingdon-Bebb

Environmental groups call for ETS reform

20 Feb 2026

Several environmental organisations are calling on political parties to make climate and biodiversity central to the 2026 election campaign, with reforming the Emissions Trading Scheme seen as a key priority.

Extreme weather
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Combined climate extremes may prompt carbon budget rethink

Today 11:45am

Media release: Springer Nature | Combined extreme climate events are likely to become more common in the future if carbon emissions continue to rise, a paper in Nature suggests.

Fishing
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EDS urges MPs to scrap the Fisheries Amendment Bill

5 May 2026

Media release | The Environmental Defence Society today lodged a substantive submission on the Fisheries Amendment Bill.

Forestry
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Govt presses ahead with forestry rule changes despite opposition

Today 11:45am

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Government is pushing ahead with changes to commercial forestry rules despite most submitters opposing the proposals, with critics warning the reforms will weaken councils’ ability to manage erosion and forestry slash risks in vulnerable regions such as Tairāwhiti.

Fossil fuels
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Supreme Court

Govt moves to block climate change litigation

Tue 12 May 2026

By Liz Kivi | The Government’s move to limit lawsuits holding climate polluters accountable for damage is putting the interests of big emitters ahead of communities, according to Lawyers for Climate Action.

Gas
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Methanexit: writing on the wall for NZ’s biggest gas user

6 May 2026

By Liz Kivi | New Zealand’s biggest fossil gas user, Methanex, is expected to stop production by the end of this year, with the company confirming its Motunui methanol operation won’t survive Māui gas field’s closure.

Geothermal
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RMA to speed up fossil fuel consents

18 Aug 2025

By Liz Kivi | An energy lobby group has welcomed a last-minute amendment to the RMA that puts fossil fuels on the same footing as renewables, however a sustainable energy expert says the move “beggars belief.”

Green finance
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New funding for low methane farming uptake

29 Apr 2026

By Pattrick Smellie | The government will co-fund projects under an Early Adoption Accelerator scheme announced today to accelerate the uptake of low emissions farming technologies emerging from the AgriZero public-private partnership.

Greenhouse Effect
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Commission urges Govt action on climate risks

7 May 2026

By Liz Kivi | Climate change currently poses major risks to our water infrastructure with “significant gaps” in readiness to manage risks and increasing hazards, according to the Climate Change Commission.

Greenwashing
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Fonterra ‘spins’ greenwashing research for favourable press

1 May 2026

By Liz Kivi | Dairy co-operative Fonterra has managed to ‘spin’ international research intended to highlight greenwashing, instead using it to generate unwarranted positive press, according to researchers behind the recent study into ag industry greenwashing.

Hydro power
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‘Formidable’ El Niño expected this winter

29 Apr 2026

By Liz Kivi | Meteorologists are anticipating a significant El Niño influence on weather patterns across the country from winter onwards, with predicted lower rainfall for some areas and heavier rain for others likely to impact multiple sectors of the economy as well as the carbon market.

Hydrogen
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Farmer spreading fertiliser

Victorian Hydrogen announces Southland urea fertiliser project using coal

22 Apr 2026

By Liz Kivi | Australian-based Victorian Hydrogen has announced it is developing a new 1.5 million-tonne-a-year urea fertiliser operation in Southland, which it will apply for under fast-track legislation.

Insurance
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Media round-up

24 Apr 2026

In our round-up of climate coverage in local media: What is the real cost of storm-hit infrastructure? Urgency is needed over climate adaptation funding; and a community conservation group has won a legal victory against multinational mining company OceanaGold.

Kyoto
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Waitangi Treaty Grounds

Climate law change spanner in the works for Waitangi Tribunal Inquiry

19 Dec 2025

By Liz Kivi | The Government’s controversial changes to New Zealand’s legal framework for climate policy have thrown a spanner in the works for a long-running Waitangi Tribunal Inquiry into climate change.

Litigation
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How big oil companies can slow the green transition by suing governments that ban fossil fuels

Wed 13 May 2026

Simply put, this rule lets big oil companies sue sovereign states and demand exorbitant amounts of money if they are prohibited from digging up fossil fuels.

LNG
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Tehran will never cede control of Strait of Hormuz, senior Iranian politician tells BBC

21 Apr 2026

"Never." That's when a senior Iranian lawmaker says they'll be ready to give up their control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Low carbon
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Govt missing tricks to save fuel in crisis

30 Apr 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Government is being urged to shift its response to the fuel crisis away from short-term relief and towards measures that reduce demand, with public health experts warning it is missing an opportunity to boost energy security and lower household costs.

Market advice
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Climate risks could reshape business finances, new guidance warns

15 Apr 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New guidance warns climate change is set to fundamentally reshape financial outcomes for businesses, including difficult-to-model climate “tipping points” – irreversible changes such as ice sheet collapse or ocean circulation shifts – which threaten severe and sudden financial impacts.

Methane
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‘Triple whammy of climate chaos’: Why Antarctica's sea ice collapse is no longer a mystery

Mon 11 May 2026

Scientists have finally identified the ‘triple whammy’ behind Antarctica’s dramatic collapse, shedding new light on the chain reaction that has pushed its sea ice to record lows.

Mining
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Coal mine challenge reaches Aus High Court

Wed 13 May 2026

What climate change impacts should a planning authority have to take into account when assessing a mining project?

NZ Market Report
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NZ's latest climate target 'weak' – Climate Action Tracker

24 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand's new international climate target to 2035 is weak, and could even allow for higher emissions than the 2030 target, according to a global scientific project that tracks government climate action.

Oceans
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Deep-sea mining risks biodiversity loss lasting decades, scientists warn

Mon 11 May 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The first comprehensive review of deep-sea mining research has found mining could cause ecological damage lasting decades and, in some ecosystems, irreversible biodiversity loss, with New Zealand experts warning the industry poses major risks to fragile ocean environments.

Oil
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Environmental groups sue Trump administration over approval of new ultra deep-water drilling project

23 Apr 2026

Environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Monday over its approval last month of oil company BP’s ultra deep-water drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico.

Paris Agreement
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Opposition slams environment ministry merger

Wed 13 May 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Opposition MPs accused the Government of downgrading climate and environmental protections as legislation to abolish the Ministry for the Environment and merge it into a new mega-ministry passed its second reading in Parliament.

Planetary boundaries
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Kiwis overly optimistic about state of environment

27 Feb 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New research suggests many New Zealanders believe the environment is in better shape than it really is, with public perceptions often out of step with scientific evidence.

Plastics
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ESG funds include petrochemical companies, report finds

5 May 2026

Global banks have invested US$133bn into US petrochemical expansion, even as the industry is linked to climate change.

Protest
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Thousands protest in Germany urging faster shift to renewable energy, amid Iran war

20 Apr 2026

Thousands of people demonstrated across Germany on April 18, urging a faster shift to renewable energy and accusing conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition of putting the brakes on the transition.

Rare earth minerals
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Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson

Green Party calls for national electrification plan

20 Apr 2026

By Liz Kivi | The Green Party is calling for a national plan to electrify homes, transport and industry using renewable energy, to reduce fossil fuel dependence in response to the Middle East crisis.

Regulation
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Cruise ship in Milford Sound

‘Landmark’ conservation reform bill – boost or bust for nature?

Fri 8 May 2026

By Liz Kivi | The Government has announced an overhaul of the country’s conservation system, which environmental organisation Forest & Bird says will undo the work of many generations of Kiwis to protect public conservation land.

Renewable energy
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Renewable energy hub planned for Scottish coal museum

Today 11:45am

A former 19th Century coal mining 'super-pit' in Midlothian is to be turned into a renewable energy hub providing green electricity for the local community.

Resource management
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Awarua-Waituna Wetlands

Planned coal mine borders internationally significant wetland

30 Apr 2026

By Liz Kivi | Victorian Hydrogen, the company behind plans for a huge coal-to-urea project, has applied for a permit to explore for coal next to an internationally significant wetland in a sensitive catchment in Southland.

Solar
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Govt launches solar red tape review to speed up installations

Fri 8 May 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Government has launched a review aimed at making residential and small-scale solar installations faster and easier, in a move Rewiring Aotearoa says could help cut costs and accelerate solar uptake across New Zealand.

Tax
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Associate Professor Ru Hong

Carbon trading schemes cut more emissions than carbon taxes, according to global study

20 Mar 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Carbon trading schemes are more effective than carbon taxes at reducing emissions, cutting fossil fuel use, and accelerating the shift to renewable energy, a global study has found.

Technology
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Why both trees and technology are important in the race to mitigate carbon emissions

4 May 2026

Different carbon‑removal approaches solve different problems, and pitting these technologies against each other could slow progress.

The House
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Pacific climate response in question as NZ finance remains unclear

19 Dec 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | With New Zealand's $1.3 billion international climate finance commitment set to end with no clarity on what follows, the Auditor-General says oversight of that funding remains patchy and long-term outcomes are unclear.

Transport
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More red lights for cars might mean more green lights for sustainable transport

7 May 2026

Media release: Royal Society Open Science | Reducing the amount of green light time for cars at traffic lights could encourage commuters to switch to more sustainable transport.

United Nations
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UN methane alert system expanded to coal and waste sectors after Indian landfill named among world’s top emitters

6 May 2026

The United Nations is expanding its methane monitoring system to cover coal mines and waste facilities, after satellite analysis identified a landfill in India among the world’s three largest methane-emitting sites.

Waste
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NZ First moves to revive container return scheme

4 May 2026

By Shannon Morris-Williams | NZ First is aiming to launch a national container return scheme, which could recycle over a billion wasted containers each year, reviving a policy shelved by the previous Labour-led Government in 2023.

Water
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Steve Abel, Green Party resources spokesperson

Greens condemn planned coal mine next to protected wetland

4 May 2026

By Liz Kivi | The Green Party says a new plan for a coal mine and fertiliser plant next to an internationally significant wetland is “ecological vandalism and climate denial.”

Wildfires
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Why is Northern Ireland facing a growing threat from wildfires?

7 May 2026

Figures show that spring drought events are happening more often while there has been a sharp rise in "fire weather" - a mix of warmth, dryness, and wind that allows fires to ignite and spread rapidly. Experts warn this combination, along with climate change, is creating a longer and more volatile wildfire season.

Wind energy
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Bio-informed blade patterns exploit the principles of bird vision

Stripy wind turbines could save some birds

Fri 8 May 2026

Media release: Royal Society Interface | Preventing birds from colliding with wind turbine blades could be as simple as a few paint stripes, according to international researchers, who say this could help protect wildlife as renewable energy expands.

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