{"id":74647,"date":"2025-10-08T09:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/08\/new-zealand-oceans-warming-34-per-cent-faster-than-global-average"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:57:22","slug":"new-zealand-oceans-warming-34-faster-than-global-average-putting-homes-and-industry-at-risk-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74647","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s oceans are warming 34% faster than the global average, with NZ$180bn (US$104bn) worth of housing at risk of flooding, a new report about the nation\u2019s marine environment has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry of the environment and Stats NZ\u2019s three-yearly update, <a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/ebebf9501bcd56a598aa9f357\/files\/2d584549-1445-a5b3-f7dd-73c342c58c32\/our_environment_2025_embargoed.pdf\">Our Environment 2025<\/a>, collates statistics, data and research across five domains \u2013 air, atmosphere and climate, freshwater, land, and marine \u2013 to paint a picture of the state of New Zealand\u2019s marine environment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/08\/new-zealand-oceans-warming-34-per-cent-faster-than-global-average\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report findsNew Zealand\u2019s oceans are warming 34% faster than the global average, with NZ$180bn (US$104bn) worth of housing at risk of flooding, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,65,56,467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-oceans"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74648,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74647\/revisions\/74648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}