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The irrigation lobby opposes a just-recommended water tax, arguing it would hurt farmers and growers and push up power and food prices. Photo / File

NEW ZEALAND

Environmentalists welcome new tax proposals

21 Feb, 2019 4:19pm

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Hector's dolphins are only found around the South Island and, with just 15,000 remaining, are classified as nationally endangered by the Department of Conservation (DOC). Photo / File

NEW ZEALAND

More Hector's dolphin deaths prompts call for trawling ban

21 Feb, 2019 2:40pm
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Three more endangered Hector's dolphins die in trawl nets, angering environmentalists.

HAMILTON NEWS

Nursery raises seedlings and awareness

20 Feb, 2019 1:30pm
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Young people grow 90,000 native plants. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The extinction of the Haast's eagle has been tied to that of the moa. Illustration / John Megahan

NEW ZEALAND

Lost Haast's eagle hailed from Aussie, but became a monster here

20 Feb, 2019 10:50am
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The lost Haast's eagle arrived here from Australia to become a global giant, study finds.

BUSINESS

Bee-friending the honeymakers

18 Feb, 2019 9:00am
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Be more bee-friendly in Hamilton. Made with funding from NZ on Air.

Kairakau Beach, a sanctuary to recharge your batteries. Photo / Carol Young

HAWKE'S BAY TODAY

New project enhances Kairakau memories

18 Feb, 2019 6:00am
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Rich memories of Kairakau Beach have been enhanced by a new project, writes Clive Bibby.

Alexandria skips school on Friday morning to strike in front of the UN. Photo / Getty Images

WORLD

How a 13 year-old's strike against climate change exploded into a movement

17 Feb, 2019 3:43pm
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Students in China want to join Alexandria Villasenor's climate change movement.

Public feedback is being sought on changes to the way Crown pastoral land is managed and leased. Photo / File

NEW ZEALAND

Feedback sought on pastoral lease changes

17 Feb, 2019 1:16pm
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Changes are coming for the regulatory framework governing high-country leases.

I would encourage every shopper to spend a few minutes on each shopping trip, studying a few labels. Photo / 123RF

BUSINESS

Eight rules for making better eco-choices in the supermarket

17 Feb, 2019 6:30am
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How to pick real green products.

The hand of human stupidity played a major part in the damage to Townsville during this year's floods. Photo / Queensland Police

WORLD

Climate change alarmists push own barrow

16 Feb, 2019 5:00am
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COMMENT: This is for those who remember that mother nature makes her own rules.

Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ruanui deputy chairman Ngapari Nui is disgusted South Taranaki District Council will not endorse his iwi's stand against seabed mining. Photo / supplied

WHANGANUI CHRONICLE

Mining company applies for new exploration permit

16 Feb, 2019 5:00am
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New minerals permit applied for - iwi wanted council to back anti-mining stance.

Six spotted shag specimens have been scanned, 3D printed and painted, before being installed as a colony on Otata Island, part of the Noises island group. Photo / Aotearoa Science Agency

NEW ZEALAND

3D printing and century-old specimens saving gulf seabird

15 Feb, 2019 6:00pm
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Century-old bird specimens may be key to saving an under-threat Hauraki Gulf species.

The buoys being deployed from Niwa research vessel RV Tangaroa last February. Photo / MetOcean Solutions

NEW ZEALAND

NZ scientists awed at buoys' 6500km, year-long journey

15 Feb, 2019 4:26pm
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Buoys dropped in the world's strongest ocean current have travelled 6500km in just a year.

A worker toils in Hawke's Bay's Bridgeman Vineyard in December 2017. In Marlborough, the grape harvest came three weeks early during the hottest summer on record. Photo / File

NEW ZEALAND

Q&A: Why we must hasten action on climate change

15 Feb, 2019 4:11pm
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Last summer's record-hot temperatures are a warning about our future, scientist says.

Members of the Carey family looking at the river which flows their farms. Photo / Hunter Calder

TE AWAMUTU COURIER

Would you drink river water from a dairy farm?

15 Feb, 2019 12:00pm
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Excellent rating for water on Te Anga farms. Made with funding from NZ on Air.

The Government says the tenure review process has damaged iconic landscapes in the South Island's Mackenzie Basin through intensive farming. Photo / Sarah Ivey

NEW ZEALAND

Tenure review axed to save high country landscapes and native habitat

14 Feb, 2019 3:19pm
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Eugenie Sage says the 30 properties still in the tenure review process will be reviewed

Ingredients for a vegan diet. Is this the way the world is going?

TECHNOLOGY

Gwynne Dyer: New food tech may help save us

14 Feb, 2019 3:00pm
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We need a significant overhaul, changing the world food system on a scale not seen before

David Trubridge has announced he will immediately withdraw six of his products from production.

BUSINESS

David Trubridge pulls six products from production

14 Feb, 2019 2:00pm
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David Trubridge announces immediately pulling six of his products from production.

Taranaki began erupting about 130,000 years ago, with large eruptions occurring on average every 500 years and smaller eruptions about 90 years apart. Photo / Alan Gibson

NEW ZEALAND

Scientists re-write Mt Taranaki's explosive history

13 Feb, 2019 2:54pm
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Study reveals Taranaki blew more recently than we thought - with a warning for the future.

Talwinder Singh Kular started by feeding sparrows outside his store each morning. Photo / Patrick O'Sullivan

NEW ZEALAND

Neighbours squawk as seagull whisperer entices rare birds into town

13 Feb, 2019 2:35pm
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Endangered seagulls find a Sikh guardian in Hastings. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Governors Bay near Lyttelton yesterday afternoon - where strange tides prompted a call to tsunami experts. Photo / Rosie Belton

NEW ZEALAND

Spooky tides spark call to tsunami experts

13 Feb, 2019 12:31pm
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Lyttleton locals were so spooked by weird tides that tsunami scientists were alerted.

Glenn Abel says the river is essentially being

NEW ZEALAND

Rafts of grass clogging a Hawke's Bay natural wonderland

13 Feb, 2019 6:00am
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The grass may be greener on the other side, but it's different down river in Clive.

NEW ZEALAND

Vernon Tava launches first step in new 'teal' party

11 Feb, 2019 2:37pm
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Vernon Tava launches first step in new party to rival the Greens.

A team led by Otago University's Associate Professor David Prior have spent the past three weeks camping out at remote Terra Nova Bay for an intriguing research project. Photo / Supplied

NEW ZEALAND

Why are scientists blowing up ice in Antarctica?

10 Feb, 2019 12:01pm
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Explosives helping reveal how Antarctica's ice shelves might respond to a warming world.

NEW ZEALAND

The battle to save our forests and birds

10 Feb, 2019 9:10am
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Scientists are urgently trying to model NZ's "warm" forests to save the birds within them.

Kiwi scientists survey the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Photo / Craig Cary

NEW ZEALAND

Antarctica: An alien valley, frozen in time

10 Feb, 2019 5:00am
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Comment: When you step into Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys, you step into another world.

Bailey Dewar from Buoy Cafe said it was logical that takeaway cups were for customers taking away. Photo / Doug Sherring

BUSINESS

Trespass threat after cafe stops takeaway cups for dine-in customers

10 Feb, 2019 5:00am
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A new policy to give takeaway only cups to cafe customers leaving the premises got heated.

Cameron Reardon, left, and Damian Traill with Waitoki principal Mike Neison. Photo / Supplied

NEW ZEALAND

Sustainable schools to install chicken coops and behives

10 Feb, 2019 5:00am
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Schools have been given $25,000 from Countdown supermarket for chicken coops and beehives.

NEW ZEALAND

What these creatures are telling us about climate change

9 Feb, 2019 5:00am
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As the planet warms, we can turn to these species as climate change's coal mine canaries.

The first flames caused by a spark from agricultural machinery on a Pigeon Valley farm. Photo / Joel Scott

NEW ZEALAND

Fire risk could more than double with climate change

8 Feb, 2019 11:22am
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Nelson has already felt 15 days of "very high" or "extreme" fire danger this year.

Renegar Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica. Once considered inert, the East Antarctic ice sheet is showing increasing signs of change. Photo / Nick Golledge

NEW ZEALAND

'Extreme and unpredictable' weather to get worse as ice sheets melt

7 Feb, 2019 7:00am
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Researchers call for an "urgent review" of global policy to avoid dangerous impacts.

The Himalayan glaciers formed some 70 million years ago. Photo / 123RF

WORLD

Scientists Himalayan ice warning

6 Feb, 2019 5:30am
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Vast glaciers are expected to shrink by at least a third as temperatures heat up.

When is a robin not a black robin? When it lives in Bushy Park. The park's robins are North Island robins, like this one.

WHANGANUI CHRONICLE

Conservation Comment: Dispelling robin rumours

4 Feb, 2019 3:00pm
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When is a robin not a black robin? When it lives in Bushy Park.

While we must all weather the climate change storm, Todd Muller says

NEW ZEALAND

Plenty to learn as a climate change novice

4 Feb, 2019 5:00am
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COMMENT: We all have to play our part.

Bryce Robb with his partner Mary Cameron who he co-manages Beaver Tree Services Whanganui with. Photo / Stuart Munro

WHANGANUI CHRONICLE

Feature: They speak for the trees

2 Feb, 2019 4:00pm
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"We're all about beautifying trees."

NEW ZEALAND

Bumper crop hopes for kakapo breeding season

1 Feb, 2019 5:00pm
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Conservationists are hoping this breeding season will bring a record population boost.

Climate scientists are predicting a bumper summer, with warmth and humidity set to stick around everywhere for the next three months at least. Photo / Alan Gibson

NEW ZEALAND

Roll on summer: warmth, humidity here until April

1 Feb, 2019 3:17pm
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Climate scientists are predicting a bumper summer, with warmth lingering through to April.

Pedestrians pass a frozen water fountain at New York's Bryant Park this week. Photo / AP

Jim Salinger: A polar vortex in the US, a heatwave here

1 Feb, 2019 2:01pm
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Despite what Donald Trump claims, the US polar vortex is climate change in action.

NZ First MP Shane Jones says he had received donations from Talley's but they were in compliance with Parliament's rules on donations. Photo / Peter de Graaf

NEW ZEALAND

Shane Jones, Greenpeace in new war of words

31 Jan, 2019 6:01pm
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Jones said organisation had used politically lurid language to tarnish NZ's reputation.

Auckland is leading the way at adapting its built environment to the coming impacts of climate change, Professor Iain White says. Photo / File

NEW ZEALAND

If this heatwave is NZ's future, are we ready for it?

31 Jan, 2019 5:14pm
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Is New Zealand ready for the warmer, wilder future that this week has given us a taste of?

Auckland's Cornwall Park provides a leafy refuge in the heat today. MetService is reporting some spots have now had an official heatwave this week. Photo / Dean Purcell

NEW ZEALAND

Revealed: Where in NZ the heatwave is now official

31 Jan, 2019 5:06pm
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For some sun-baked parts of the country, it's now been an official heatwave.

A possum eating a young bird. Perhaps the Australians should take back their delinquent marsupials.

WHANGANUI CHRONICLE

Letters: Deport the possums back to Oz

31 Jan, 2019 4:00pm
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If we want bird life, we need healthy bush. If we want healthy bush, possums must go.

NEW ZEALAND

Drones used to clear rats from North Seymour Island

31 Jan, 2019 4:00pm
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Drones are being used to clear rats from North Seymour Island in Ecuador's famous Galápagos National Park. Source / Island Conservation

Auckland Zoo Asian elephant Burma gets a special treat in the form of a giant ice block to help cool her as temperatures continue to rise across the country. Photo / Dean Purcell

NEW ZEALAND

'Peak' heatwave today, with temps up to 37C

31 Jan, 2019 11:04am
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Will this heatwave officially be a heatwave? Jamie Morton explains.

As much as $14 billion worth of council infrastructure is threatened by rising seas, prompting an urgent call for Government action. Photo / File

NEW ZEALAND

Rising seas threat to council infrastructure - report

31 Jan, 2019 9:05am
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As much as $14 billion worth of council infrastructure is threatened by rising seas.

One of the six-rotor drones used in this month's operation to clear rats from North Seymour Island in Ecuador's famous Galápagos National Park. Photo / Island Conservation

NEW ZEALAND

Death from above: Kiwi drones helping save island

30 Jan, 2019 5:26pm
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A Kiwi start-up is using drones to clear rats from an island in a world-first mission.

Summer Coulter, 11, Alyssa Coulter, 8, Hine Grant, 11, Lita Martin, 13, Sky-Lily Griffin, 2, beat the heat at Hastings' Frimley Pool yesterday. Photo / Duncan Brown

NEW ZEALAND

It's horribly hot: but last January was hotter

30 Jan, 2019 3:17pm
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It might be hot – but this month's warmth still doesn't stack up to last January.

Two men used a crowbar to capture three of the penguins/kororā, one of which died in the raid and was left behind. Photo / Supplied

NEW ZEALAND

'Might not be a one off': Little blue penguins stolen from Hawke's Bay nest

30 Jan, 2019 11:03am
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Potential smuggling ring for little blue penguin in Hawke's Bay after two taken from nest.

Perhaps it is time for those who are advocating this war-like behaviour to consider the potential dangers of their obsessions. Photo / John Stone

NEW ZEALAND

Culture of killing pests foster other abuse

30 Jan, 2019 5:00am
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COMMENT: No animal deserves to die a painful death, even those we call pests.

Tracy Branch and Lee Carlyle, of Auckland's Branch Property Maintenance, didn't need to be told how hot it's been in the city today. Auckland temperatures have reached 30C. Photo / Doug Sherring

NEW ZEALAND

Feeling hotter than the forecast? You might be right

29 Jan, 2019 3:17pm
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Feeling hotter at your place than MetService is reporting? You might well be right.

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