Opinion: In performing the role of global teachers, scientists can be reassured that the vast majority is on their side
Environmental opinion
How to avoid a billion climate deaths
Opinion: Scientists have predicted a billion climate deaths over the coming century – but it’s not too late to give our children a future
Hacking planet Earth will not save us from ourselves
Opinion: A number of geoengineering methods have been proposed as a way to cool our warming planet
Sir Russell takes a rough ride on an ocean of obstacles
Opinion: The SailGP boss is dogged by extremes and red tape but overlooks how caring for dolphins aligns with his event’s brand
A naked power grab
Opinion: The Government is telling the public ‘trust me, I know what I’m doing’, with its ministerial powers under fast-track planning law, writes Dame Anne Salmond
Prominent columnist and environmentalist Rod Oram dies
Rod Oram, a treasured Newsroom colleague and leading business and climate commentator in NZ public life for decades, has died in Auckland from injuries suffered in a cycling accident.
Water, but not a ‘proper’ drop to drink
Emergency water tanks delivered by army after Cyclone Gabrielle weren’t able to be used as they were not ‘certified’
Our impact is so enormous, geologists have named an epoch after us
We’ve caused the Anthropocene age. It’s entirely on us whether we figure out how to survive it.
Open your books, DoC
Opinion: In the face of looming cutbacks, it’s time DoC showed the NZ public where their nearly $800m dollar budget is spent, writes Peter Wilson
How joining separate world views can benefit us all
Weaving mātauranga Māori together with cutting-edge innovation marks a new era in sustainable land use
Building Act is preventing full hazard zoning improvements
Research since the Auckland floods and Cyclone Gabrielle stymied by 2004 act
We have to work with nature, not against it
Over the next few years countries must achieve an utterly unprecedented speed, scale and complexity of change