They’re the lungs of our environment, provide a leafy canopy and sequester carbon helping to mitigate climate change.

By RedPR
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The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) wants feedback on an application to import or manufacture Tower, a new herbicide used to control certain broadleaf and grass weeds in wheat and barley crops.

By Environmental Protection Authority
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Auckland — At the University of Auckland's Newmarket research laboratories, novel investigations are being undertaken to advance core durability knowledge in relation to the development and applications of low embodied carbon laminated timber systems for civil infrastructure and structural applications.

By Dr. Gary Raftery
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Otago — As community concern about the planned fast-tracked open-pit gold mine in Central Otago grows, two urgent public meetings have been organised in Dunedin and Wānaka next week.

By Sustainable Tarras
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The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) says proposed changes to the rules for hazardous substances will give industry a clearer path for making use of new chemicals in New Zealand.

By Environmental Protection Authority
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New Zealand’s commitment to the flawed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is causing environmental, economic and social damage as foreign companies buy up productive farmland to plant pine forests.

By Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa
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Rotorua — After 15 years of collective effort by the Rotorua community and Bay of Plenty Regional Council to improve air quality in the city, Rotorua will officially shed its 'polluted' air quality status today.

By Bay of Plenty Regional Council
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Greenpeace Aotearoa is condemning the Government’s 2025 Budget as a fighting fund for the war on nature, taken from hard-working New Zealanders to funnel towards wannabe seabed miners and oil and gas exploration.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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Today’s budget has cut $100 million in funding for climate-vulnerable communities in the Pacific, delivering only half the funding needed to maintain New Zealand’s current level of climate finance and reneging on a global deal made last year to triple funding by 2030.

By Oxfam Aotearoa
273 views

As calls to ban the practice of octopus farming continue to gain momentum worldwide, the government of New Zealand is set to make a decision about providing more funding to octopus farming on May 21.

By Animals Aotearoa
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Where settlers once felled mighty tōtara, mātai, kahikatea and kanuka to build a growing city, residents are now planting the same trees to restore a unique piece of Canterbury's natural heritage.

By RedPR
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The iconic Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior will return to Aotearoa this year to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior at Marsden Wharf in Auckland by French government agents on 10th July 1985.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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The amendment to the Wildlife Act, New Zealand’s foundational wildlife protection law, was passed under urgency today and allows the Director-General of Conservation to grant companies permission to kill kiwi and other native wildlife if they get in the way of projects like roads, mines or dams.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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Greenpeace says the appointment of a former DairyNZ scientist as Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's Chief Science Advisor shows the Government is handing power to polluters.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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Outdoor heating can transform your patio or deck into a year-round living space, but not all heaters are created equal, especially when it comes to withstanding New Zealand’s unique climate.

By Adam Jay
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Greenpeace Aotearoa has come out strongly in support of the protest happening now against Bathhurst Minerals’ plan to expand coal mining on the Denniston Plateau.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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Hawea Flat — Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has received an abatement notice from Otago Regional Council (ORC) in relation to the performance of Hāwea Wastewater Treatment Plant, after the facility failed to achieve its 12 month rolling mean for nitrogen levels within treated wastewater discharged to its oxidation pond.

By Queenstown Lakes District Council
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Taranaki — Greenpeace says it will continue the fight to stop seabed mining starting in Aotearoa after Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) announced it has reapplied to the Environmental Protection Authority via the Fast-Track Act to start seabed mining in the South Taranaki Bight.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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New research shows that while the cost of living remains top concern for New Zealand’s consumers, their commitment to sustainability remains strong.

By Business NZ
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Finance:  The NZ dollar was steady over the week as Trump’s tariff war becomes the international unknown.  Brent Crude lifted again to $70.61/barrel.

By Media PA
364 views

By Waikato Regional Council
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GE Free NZ welcomes the open letter of support from MASIPAG a 30,000 member organisation of farmers and civil society organisations in the Philippines.

By GE Free NZ
394 views