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From slash to cash: Finding innovative ways to fertilise and heal the land
10 Aug 2023Innovators across New Zealand are working on solutions for the huge amount of silt and woody debris that is clogging beaches and riverbanks on the East Coast.
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Tawaki return to coastal forests for start of breeding season
6 Aug 2023Fiordland crested penguins are one of the world's rarest penguin species, and breed near Lake Moeraki.
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Significant Natural Areas rules too broad, research centre says
5 Aug 2023Bioprotection Aotearoa is concerned rules around areas of significant biodiversity are too broad and need more focus.
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The charismatic kākāpō is booming, but its friends need help
4 Aug 2023The Detail - Having kākāpō in the North Island wilderness again is an historic win for our native manu, but conservationists say other species are at risk of falling through the cracks.
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Popular bird poll seeks 'Bird of the Century'
29 Jul 2023The Bird of the Year competition is set to heat up as Forest and Bird seeks to find the Bird of the Century to celebrate its 100th year.
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Leafy berm lauded by one council agency, another threatens to chop it down
29 Jul 2023A garden was once hailed as an "inner-city oasis" by Auckland Council's Watercare now faces the chop at the hands of another council entity: Auckland Transport.
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River path shift may threaten West Coast town's waste water treatment
18 Jul 2023Rural properties and Franz Josef's waste water treatment system may be threatened by the flood-prone Waiho River changing its course.
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High levels of toxic nitrates in water moving under and through South Auckland to harbour
15 Jul 2023The levels detected in a new GNS study in groundwater and streams around Pukekohe and Bombay are eight times the 'national bottom line' in rivers.
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Officials seek solution to Lyttelton cruise ship passengers overwhelming buses
11 Jul 2023Canterbury Regional Council has committed to reducing the impact of cruise ship on its buses services which are struggling to keep up with demand.
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Wellington one step closer to new sewage sludge treatment plant
6 Jul 2023Wellington City Council has signed a deal with a construction consortium to build a new sewage sludge treatment plant at Moa Point.
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Clean up of DOC visitor sites after wild weather ongoing
3 Jul 2023More than 80 percent of Department of Conservation visitor sites forced shut by wild weather in the North Island earlier this year have reopened.
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Waste company throwing kerbside recycling in with rubbish looks overseas for workers
26 Jun 2023Overseas recruits have been called in to help fill gaps in a labour shortage which has led to recycling and rubbish being chucked into the same rubbish truck and taken to landfill.
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New additional ETS scheme floated in review of carbon market
19 Jun 2023The government has floated a series of options to reform the Emissions Trading Scheme, with the highest ranked option one which sets up a whole new additional ETS scheme.
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Why off-season roses are thriving better in cyclone-hit Esk Valley
19 Jun 2023Along the fence lines of the cyclone-devastated Esk Valley, red roses still turn their little faces towards the pale winter sun, and their unusually strong flush this year has turned heads.
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Owner of controversial former chemical plant wants to hear from former staff, contractors
14 Jun 2023The owner of a controversial former chemical plant in New Plymouth wants to quiz people with links to Ivon Watkins-Dow ahead of remediating the site.
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Ban now in place to fight caulerpa spread
12 Jun 2023The government and mana whenua have put in place an anchoring ban to fight the growing threat of one of the world's most invasive marine seaweeds.
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Raging Canada wildfires threaten critical infrastructure, force evacuations
8 Jun 2023More than 400 wildfires are burning across the country, with the province of Quebec among the worst affected, and sending a blanket of smoky air wafting over US cities.
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Scientists issue new climate warning: 1.5C for the planet, 1C for people
A leading climate scientist says it is valuable for policymakers and the public to know the planet is already in highly risky territory.
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What next for NZ's big emitters?
New Zealand's big emitters are under pressure to do more as the country heads towards its zero carbon 2050 target. NZ Steel's the first mover with a big deal with the government to help it cut its…
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Did the Budget do enough for climate and science? Here's what the sectors say
18 May 2023Prominent environmental groups are less than impressed with the budget investments in climate, but an expert says the government has taken a multifaceted approach.
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Final phase of Tui Oil Field decommissioning set to begin
15 May 2023The arrival of a specialist vessel at Port Taranaki this week marks the beginning of the final phase of decommissioning the abandoned Tui Oil Field. Video
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Far from mighty oak on death's door still a tree of the year contender
15 May 2023Plimmer's Oak - one of the capital's oldest exotic trees - won't win any beauty contests, but could take out the ultimate prize in its final throes.
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Council investigates oil leak source in Christchurch's Avon River
15 May 2023Council staff believe they have identified the source but are unable to comment on it while the investigation is underway.
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Native fish introduced to Zealandia to replenish ecosystem
14 May 2023It is believed to be the first time the species has ever been transported in modern times.
![Top, left to right: [https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_naturalsciences-object-122214?p=2&srt=score&k=heteralocha%20acutirostris&ordinal=11 Huia] by Auckland Museum Ref LB 9129 (CC BY 4.0); [https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/532016 North Island Piopio], Turnagra tanagra, collected 8 September 1900, Waitotara district, New Zealand. [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC BY 4.0]. Te Papa (OR.000212). Bottom, left to right: South Island snipe by Don Merton/Department of Conservation Ref 10040147; Laughing owl by Buthbert & Oliver Parr, 1909 at Raincliff Station, Opihi River, South Canterbury; Bush wren by Don Merton/Department of Conservation Ref 10037276.](https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--abejAB9r--/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_288/v1690590667/4L54188_birds_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD)
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