Breadcrumbs List.
Environment
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Dilemma of homes stickered in red or yellow
8 March 2023
Opinion: Associate Professor Martin Brook writes on people moving back in to disaster-affected homes.
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Cyclone reveals fixes needed for vital communicatons links
3 March 2023
Opinion: When Cyclone Gabrielle struck many people were left without cell or internet connections. Ulrich Speidel explains what happened and what needs to be fixed.
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Climate fiddling while Rome burns
3 March 2023
Opinion: The Natural Hazards Insurance Act 2023 is a masterpiece of convolution and only covers flood damage to land. What about other climate-change-induced events, asks Chris Nicoll.
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Logs like bulldozers - why the East Coast feels betrayed
19 February 2023
Opinion: Politicians are not taking the environmental and human risks of forestry slash seriously or urgently enough, says Dame Anne Salmond
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Te Matatini: arts and science student enters Te Matatini for the third time
15 February 2023
Hikawai Te Nahu, 21, has aspirations to cater to te taiao through his studies, and is a kaihaka for Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Whakaue.
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We must urgently fill information gaps in climate emergency preparation
14 February 2023
Opinion: Two “one in a 100 year” floods within six years is not bad luck, it is a wakeup call to bring our environmental prediction and monitoring up to the task.
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Stormwater thinking outside the box
12 February 2023
Opinion: Stormwater infrastructure is expensive and complicated, and there is no one-size fits all approach to its management in Auckland, with the region’s variable topography and geology, says Asaad Shamseldin, Conrad Zorn and Liam Wotherspoon.
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Climate risk in an unfair world
8 February 2023
Opinion:The troubling reality is that those who contribute the least to the drivers of climate change are the ones most vulnerable to extreme climate events, argue Meg Parsons and Iresh Jayawardena
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Auckland's emergency: a lesson in geography
7 February 2023
Opinion: Professor John Morgan offers a 'lesson plan' for Auckland children returning to school to help them understand what's going on in their city after the floods.
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What's fuelling our weather extremes
31 January 2023
Opinion: Oceans are at their warmest state ever and that has consequences, Kevin Trenberth writes, and can partly explain this dreadful summer in parts of New Zealand.
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The eruption in Tonga: what we know one year on
16 January 2023
On the first anniversary of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption Shane Cronin writes that the volcanic eruption in Tonga is a wake-up call.
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Microplastics in Auckland's air revealed
12 December 2022
Microplastic pollution in Auckland's air is equivalent to millions of plastic bottles per year.