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What happened to the UN sustainability goals?
24 July 2019
Opinion: Despite encouraging progress, much more needs to be done to turn sustainable development goals into a global reality, writes the UN’s Friedrich Soltau.
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Extinction of a native freshwater fish – will history repeat?
23 July 2019
It is the only known New Zealand freshwater fish to have gone extinct but the speed at which upokororo disappeared forever has remained something of a puzzle.
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From chicken feathers to fire retardant
23 July 2019
Researchers at the Faculty of Engineering have developed a way to turn chicken feathers into a high performing fire retardant.
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Reducing health risks on your daily commute
22 July 2019
Opinion: What are you getting out of your daily commute? Kim Dirks considers the implications of how we get from A to B and the effect our options have on well-being.
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Will climate change create a more unjust world?
17 July 2019
As the Government shapes our climate policy, a University of Auckland researcher and paediatrician shares her hopes and fears with the NZ Herald.
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Pacific atolls can adapt to rising seas and extreme storms – new study
16 July 2019
Low-lying Pacific islands in atoll archipelagos such as Tuvalu, Tokelau and Kiribati are likely to adapt to the effects of climate change rather than simply sink beneath the waves.
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Anne Salmond: Billion Trees policy being rorted
16 July 2019
Opinion: Natural forests take up 40 times more carbon than plantations, but most new planting under NZ’s Billion Trees policy is pine, writes Dame Anne Salmond.
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When did NZ fall so behind on plastic?
9 July 2019
Opinion: Leave plastic packaging at the checkout for the supermarket to deal with. One idea for Plastic Free July from Emily Joy Frost and Michael Harvey.
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We must face climate emergency head-on
4 July 2019
Opinion: Declaring a climate emergency isn’t about political agendas, it is about getting our leaders to call a spade a spade, writes Professor Quentin Atkinson.
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Drastic change in our food systems needed
3 July 2019
Opinion: We need to transform how we grow, market, consume and dispose of our food, and fast.
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What cars and tobacco have in common
3 July 2019
Opinion: Dr Kirsty Wild compares the harms of rising car use to those of smoking and puts forward some suggestions to reduce the time we spend behind the wheel.
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Mental health support for Pacific climate change migrants
26 June 2019
New Zealand could become a relocation destination for many Pacific peoples displaced by rising sea levels and other climate-change related disasters.
