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We have an emergency emergency
From The Detail: A new review of New Zealand’s response to crisis is blunt about the inaction of the past
Bishop backtracks after fast-track backlash
Behind closed doors, NZ First will be arguing fiercely against any watering down of the ministerial decision-making powers in the Bill
‘Barren, toxic wasteland’: Fast-track risks repeating mistakes of the past – Ngāti Toa
Unrestrained development poisoned Porirua’s streams and silted up its harbour. Now Ngāti Toa says the fast-track bill could repeat that environmental vandalism.
Powering ahead with green hydrogen
Today from The Detail: Green hydrogen power is inching forward with more trial projects and research on the boil
ENVIRONMENT
Eliza wants more than a last tango in Paris
Back on track after years of injury, Olympian Eliza McCartney is looking towards a big future in pole vault – while championing the environment
Anne Salmond: My open submission on this radical, flawed fast-track bill
Comment: This is the submission made by former New Zealander of the Year Dame Anne Salmond to a select comittee examining the Fast-Track Approvals Bill
Govt urged to protect seabirds on the brink of extinction
Albatross are being accidentally caught and killed by NZ fishing vessels at a rate 350 percent higher than previously reported
conservation
Warning of death from a million cuts as Oceans Secretariat dissolved
Fisheries Minister says people voted for change, but opponents say small cuts such as ending a special oceans secretariat are starting to add up
Could Te Kuha coal mine be a candidate for ‘goodbye Freddy’?
Expert evidence gathered over years shows what might be lost if a proposed West Coast coal mine gets Government approval
Beyond the DoC job cuts: ‘The worst is yet to come’
Losing staff is just the beginning of a coming storm for the Department of Conservation, environmental groups warn
DoC spends $2.8m on redundancies before budget cut demand
Written answers to Parliament’s environment select committee reveal the cost of the Department of Conservation’s ‘organisational reset’
MOBILITY
Paddon urges motorsport world to speed up change
Champion Kiwi driver Hayden Paddon wants the motorsport world to speed up a switch to alternative energy powering rally cars.
E-scooters have never been ‘Devil Wagons’
Electric scooters have had a bad press ever since their invention, but there are many positives
Convenient cities become conspiracy targets
How did a vision to make cities more people-friendly become twisted into a dystopian plot?
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Jessica Tater has ambition without borders
In our weekly showcase of future leaders and inspirational young NZers from the Hyundai Pinnacle Programme, Jessica Tater wants to work for Doctors Without Borders
Thomas James is a master of invention
Thomas James is passionate about problem-solving, whatever the problem
Emissions fall again – now NZ needs to up the pace
Official figures confirm New Zealand produced less climate pollution in 2022 than in any other year in the 21st century
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