カテゴリー: Climate crisis
Instead of taking on vested interests in the agriculture and corporate sectors, the government continues to take the line of least resistanceOn the campaign trail during New Zealand’s 2017 election, Labour leader Jacinda Ardern talked about climate cha…
The ban on wheat exports highlights the effect a rapidly warming planet has on food security – and livelihoodsIt was his buffaloes that he was first worried about. As temperatures in the small village of Baras, deep in the Indian state of Punjab, began…
Latest analysis adds to evidence that the impacts of human-caused global heating are already damaging many lives around the worldRecord-breaking heatwaves in north-west India and Pakistan have been made 100 times more likely by the climate crisis, acco…
Extreme ocean temperatures blamed for turning sea sponges white in more than a dozen sites on southern coastlineSea sponges off New Zealand’s southern coastline have been found bleached bone-white for the first time, following extreme ocean temperature…
Lower and middle income families will benefit from ‘scrap and replace’ scheme, while 20% cut in car, van and ute trips soughtNew Zealand will help some people to buy electric vehicles, end its reliance on fossil fuels, lower agricultural emissions, and…
1,500 civil society groups from 130 countries back Vanuatu’s move to seek protection from the international court of justiceVanuatu’s push for the international court of justice to protect vulnerable nations from climate change has received the backing…
India and Pakistan have experienced their hottest April in 122 years. Temperatures are nearing 50C. Such extreme heat dries up water reservoirs, melts glaciers and damages crops. It’s also deadly. Ian Sample hears from Pakistan reporter Shah Meer Baloc…
Report on effects of Typhoon Haiyan says fossil and cement firms engaged in ‘wilful obfuscation’ of scienceThe world’s most polluting companies have a moral and legal obligation to address the harms of climate change because of their role in spreading …
April temperatures at unprecedented levels have led to critical water and electricity shortagesFor the past few weeks, Nazeer Ahmed has been living in one of the hottest places on Earth. As a brutal heatwave has swept across India and Pakistan, his hom…
Pacific Elders Voice group says military tension ‘created by China and the US and its allies’ are secondary to rising seas and catastrophic cyclonesGrowing military tensions in the Pacific between China, the US and Australia do not address the most sig…
Power stations face coal shortages while burning landfill chokes residents in New DelhiMillions sweltered in a dangerous early summer heatwave across India and Pakistan that has led to power and water shortages as annual furnace-like temperatures hit S…
Proposals to prepare the country for more floods, massive storms and wildfires include building away from high-risk areas and protecting cultural sitesThe New Zealand government has released new plans to try to prepare the country for the catastrophic …
Shaji NM has devoted his life to collecting and farming tubers such as yam, cassava and taro, and promoting them across the countryKnown as “the tuber man of Kerala”, Shaji NM has travelled throughout India over the past two decades, sometimes inspecti…
There may not be a direct link between climate policy and the agreement, but it has contributed to the dimming of Australia’s reputation in regionThe Australian government woke up Wednesday morning to a Solomon Islands-shaped headache.Tuesday night, ne…
Global heating speeding up their decline as terrain of newly discovered alpine species disappears Six new alpine species of New Zealand’s most unusual and beloved insect – the wētā – have been discovered, but it is a bittersweet victory, with another …