The economic potential of seabed polymetallic nodules in the Cook Islands has been overstated, according to a new independent study commissioned by Greenpeace International.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 December 2025 The New Zealand National Fieldays Society has achieved a major sustainability milestone, verified by Instep (a New Zealand-based sustainability consultancy) under ISO 20121 and ISO 14064 standards.

By Media PA
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Greenpeace says the Government's rewrite of New Zealand's core environmental laws includes an outrageous new idea, whereby companies will be able to claim financial compensation when councils introduce rules to limit pollution or protect the environment.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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The two new Acts that make up today's Resource Management Act (RMA) reform announcement will provide impetus to economic, business and infrastructure development while also providing environmental guardrails that were lacking in the previous Act, says the EMA.

By EMA
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Consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions statistics link the emissions from production, whether domestic or overseas, that become embodied in goods and services – including the extraction, manufacturing, and transport activities that take place throughout the entire supply chain – to the final consumer.

By Statistics New Zealand
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Almost exactly one year after the Glenavy water supply exceeded the government's legal health limits for nitrate, the town's water supply nitrate levels are rising - and fast.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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With New Zealand summers getting hotter and drier, the Bioeconomy Science Institute is supporting innovative research into climate-resilient pastures by collecting seeds from all over the world.

By Bioeconomy Science Institute
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Waikato Regional Council's weekly monitoring of popular rivers, lakes and coastal sites is now underway to check they are safe for swimming and other recreational activities.

By Waikato Regional Council
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Internationally acclaimed actor, and local farmer and wine producer, Sam Neill has this morning released a second statement in staunch opposition to the proposed Bendigo‑Ophir gold mine in Central Otago.

By Sustainable Tarras
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Greenpeace says the Luxon Government's "war on nature" has been met with an unprecedented wave of resistance from tens of thousands of New Zealanders over the two years since the coalition took office.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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This is a sad day for our environment, and for our community.

By Sustainable Tarras
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Greenpeace says a comprehensive timeline of the anti-environmental actions of the Luxon Government highlights the shocking extent of the coalition's war on nature.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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Greenpeace is calling for an end to intensive dairy expansion, after outrageous revelations that tank water supplied to Glenavy residents by the district council is contaminated with nitrate at levels associated with increased reproductive risks.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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In June 2025, the AgResearch genetically engineered (GE) animal experimentation, at Ruakura, ended but monitoring and testing of the site's offal pits and soil has not been enforced by the EPA.  This raises concerns of long-term GE microbial contamination that could impact future land use.

By GE Free NZ
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Matamata-Piako District Council has been convicted and fined $105,000 in the Hamilton District Court this week for unlawfully discharging wastewater from its treatment plant in Waihou, near Te Aroha.

By Waikato Regional Council
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Ngāti Rēhia's commitment to environmental stewardship, rangatahi empowerment and revitalising mātauranga Māori has earned them recognition at a prestigious business awards event.

By Northland Regional Council
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Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has received two abatement notices from Otago Regional Council (ORC) in relation to recently communicated performance challenges at the Project Pure Wastewater Treatment Plant in Wānaka.

By Queenstown Lakes District Council
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Earth Science NZ researchers are seeing signs that breeding season for the invasive freshwater gold clam (Corbicula fluminea) has begun.

By Earth Sciences New Zealand
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It's the award no country wants to receive.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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18th Nov 2025 by Owen   Most Aucklanders have now heard about the yellow-legged hornet detected on the North Shore.

By ACES pest control
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The Central Otago Environmental Society has this morning released a short film detailing the landscape, biodiversity, heritage and recreational values under threat in the Dunstan Mountains.

By Central Otago Environmental Society
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As New Zealand's pastoral sector grapples with ever tighter environmental thresholds around nitrate leaching, the science of soil carbon is emerging as a critical frontier.

By Media PA
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