4+ day, 16+ min ago   (672+ words) Expert opinion from University of Auckland - Waipapa Taumata Rau For generations, conversations about Pacific health have often started from the same assumption: that solutions would come from somewhere else. The Pacific was viewed as a region facing challenges rather than…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (92+ words) Former Solicitor-General says Mike Smith case won’t be last climate lawsuit Newsroom The Government’s efforts to tamp down climate litigation are doomed to fail, warns Una Jagose KC. “Lawyers are clever people” – they will find a way around the Government’s…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (116+ words) Newsroom Analysis: New Zealand’s carbon market could be up for significant change if Labour forms the next government, as the party promises to address the disproportionate place of forestry in the scheme. The Emissions Trading Scheme is one of New…...

1+ week, 46+ min ago   (1744+ words) Prefer Newsroom on Google History is repeating itself across New Zealand’s back country and farms but this time there’s no good keen men being handed rifles and rations and sent to sort it out. Skinny feral deer were culled in…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1690+ words) Prefer Newsroom on Google Analysis: The future sketched out in a new United Nations report – saying the world will now inevitably cross the 1.5C warming threshold – is objectively catastrophic. Exactly how catastrophic it gets is up to us. That is pretty…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1208+ words) Expert opinion from University of Otago - Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka Comment: In Europe this summer, wildfires tore through southwestern France and central Spain after months of record-breaking heat and drought. Weeks earlier, Europe already experienced its hottest May on record, followed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (80+ words) Newsroom Farming lobby group Groundswell says the coalition Government’s resource management reform will be “unworkable”. Environmental groups last week called for the two replacement bills to be dumped because they pulled regulations back too far; Groundswell, meanwhile, says the new…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (885+ words) Prefer Newsroom on Google As delegations and observers stream into Palau for this year’s Pacific Islands Forum, they receive a stamp in their passport offering them entry into the country – but only if they offer something in return. “Children of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (149+ words) Newsroom Comment: There is a story about nitrogen fertiliser use that proponents love to tell – it begins with an early 20th century scientific breakthrough by two German chemists and ends with the claim that synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use has helped us…...