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Jamie Mackay: I challenge anyone to visit Hiroshima museum and not shed tears

Comment: Beirut blast brings back memories of Hiroshima visit.

Ella Jensen: Embracing tech to reduce the farming footprint

It is time to re-open a nation-wide dialogue on the use of genetic technologies.

Frances Sweetman: Smeltdown in the electricity sector

Sector directors face difficult decisions as excess demand looms to swallow dividends.

Bryce Wilkinson: The wrong direction for RMA reform

A real resource management act would focus on actual public good problems.

Brent Melville: Tech sector sets sights on tourism, dairy as top exporter

Top 200 tech sector companies generated revenue of $12.1b on the back of export markets.

Brian Fallow: Lake Onslow hydro storage scheme is no pipe dream

$30m is worth paying to investigate scheme that would help decarbonise energy.

Rowena Duncum: The one day I enjoyed politics

Comment: Politics is becoming a steady progression for the exit door.

Audrey Young: Ardern v Collins must force election rethink

COMMENT: National and Labour will need to rethink their election strategies and messages.

Pattrick Smellie: Why it's time to let the Gisborne rail dream die

COMMENT: There are good reasons why the Gisborne-Napier railway link is unlikely to reopen

Claire Trevett: Shane Jones, King of Hearts or king of pork barrels?

Brace for shameless pork barrelling, populism from increasingly desperate NZ First.

Brian Fallow: Putting a cap on emissions

Parliament takes another step towards creating a trading scheme to fight climate change.

Comment: Faltering forestry risks NZ's climate strategy

Global headwinds are lining up against New Zealand's one billion trees policy.

Editorial: Residents carry the can with drought restrictions

Editorial:Population growth and a record drought due to climate change emptied city dams.

Mary Holm: Escaping Auckland? Making rural life work

Rural paradise is hard to achieve, but there are options for a couple leaving Auckland.

Adam Canning: Clean river promises have been swept away

Comment: Plan to restore rivers to a healthy state within a generation lacks ambition.

Comment: Pandemic exposes how fragile our food systems are

How could the pandemic change food production?