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Kāi Tahu and DOC have announced Te Au Roa o Te Rakihouia as the name for the Otago region’s new marine reserve network, reflecting ancient voyaging traditions and associations.
Years of dedication to the pursuit of trophy trout underpin this year’s overall winner in the Taupō fishery photography competition.
Some of New Zealand’s most remarkable marine environments and species are set to benefit from significant new protections along the Otago coast, Conservation Minister Tama Potaka says.
ClimateUtility company pleaded guilty to criminal offence of supplying water unfit for humans ‘My son is still suffering’: the ill effects of water contamination in ‘Brixham incident’ A utility company has been fined £1.85m for supplying water unfit for human consumption after a…
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies will need to be deployed at rates even faster than... The post Q&A: The current state of ‘carbon dioxide removal’ around the world appeared first on Carbon Brief .
ConservationPhysicist Stephen Volz had been working with colleagues at the U.S.’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for nearly 10 years to produce a new generation of geostationary satellites — instruments that would provide critical observations about atmospheric conditions,…
After months of complaints from business and political leaders about new coastal management rules, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is now facing blistering criticism from environmental advocates for agreeing to a one-year delay and new review of regulations intended to prepare…
A fisherman reported the stuck whale on Saturday, and stayed with the whale until experts were able to form a plan to extricate the whale from the rope.
The Powering Skills Organisation (PSO) welcomes the Victorian Government announcement that the State Electricity Commission will offer 2,000 electrical trade apprenticeship positions over the next four years, with the first intake commencing in 2027. Australia faces a…
ClimateResearchers observed unavailable female dolphins – those that were older, or with calves – did not show the same avoidant behaviour Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Female dolphins identify males by their unique calls and keep track of their past…
ConservationWhen a scientist says, “We don’t know yet,” it can sound like a shrug. In reality, it often means the opposite: We are worried enough to be careful. The public can reasonably ask why some climate risks, especially tipping points, don’t arrive with alarm and immediate action.…
A proposed federal logging project in the forests bordering Yellowstone National Park is drawing growing concern from local residents, business owners and conservation advocates who fear it could have lasting impacts on wildlife habitat, recreation and tourism in one of…
DOC says the partnership with local iwi marks a new approach to marine protection in Aotearoa.
The Hon. Penny Sharpe Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union NSW/ACT State Secretary, Brad Pidgeon Penny Sharpe Minister for Climate Change Minister for Energy Minister for the Environment Minister for Heritage Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council Daniel Mookhey…
Climate‘Completely unnecessary’ hybrid cans are not easily recycled or accepted by container refund schemes, and are already banned in WA Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A single-use plastic and metal drinking vessel dubbed a “franken-can” has been given…
ConservationJAKARTA — A group of Indonesian citizens affected by the late-2025 Sumatra floods and landslides have filed a lawsuit with a court in Jakarta in an effort to hold the Indonesian government accountable for what they describe as an “ecological disaster.” The disasters claimed more…
It was once known as the food basket of Ngāpuhi - but now Lake Ōmāpere is a lurid green dead zone.
Blister pack recycling process Blooms The Chemist has reached a landmark sustainability milestone, with 25 million blister packs collected and recycled through its partnership with Pharmacycle, Australia’s only end-to-end blister pack recycling program. As the first pharmacy…
ClimateNovel forms of CO 2 removal must expand at ‘highly ambitious rates’ if world is to limit global heating to 1.5C, says study Humanity must suck carbon out of the atmosphere with new technologies even faster than the breakneck speed with which it has deployed solar panels if it is…
ConservationWildlife monitoring in Australia could get a boost from a new platform that uses AI and computer vision to speed up the processing of millions of camera trap images being collected across the country. The national initiative named the Wildlife Observatory of Australia (WildObs)…
Malaysia is poised to exceed its National Energy Policy’s (NEP) 2040 renewable energy capacity target of 18.43GW by 2031, driven by aggressive large-scale solar tenders, strong policy framework, accessible financing, and rapidly improving grid integration and storage capacity…
ClimateUN agency predicts phenomenon that supercharges weather extremes has 80% chance of forming before September The world must prepare for the imminent return of El Niño and the supercharged weather extremes it brings, the UN has warned. The powerful natural weather pattern, which…
ConservationA rare hybrid population faces an oil frontier with a rescue plan that experts call insufficient.
Across Australia, a quiet shift is taking place. Backyards are becoming food sources. Balconies are turning green. Communities are swapping lawns for native plants, composting kitchen waste and learning how to grow more while using less. For many, gardening has moved beyond a…
ClimateNet zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics More than a million jobs, higher wages, nearly half a trillion pounds in investment in the pipeline – the UK’s green economy is powering ahead, according to research by…
Conservation“I think the international community really does need to put more pressure on Australia to do better,” says Euan Ritchie, a professor of wildlife ecology and conservation at Deakin University in Australia, in a recent episode of Mongabay’s Newscast. From animals like kangaroos,…
ClimateLetting nature take over at a former dairy farm has resulted in a surge of species in just three years Three years of rewilding on a former dairy farm in east Somerset have led to the number of recorded bird species soaring from 67 to 94, butterfly species rising from 11 to 24…
ConservationBOGOR, Indonesia — In a village bordering Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park on the Indonesian island of Java, local people browse a row of fabrics carrying impressions of plants and the silhouette of the forest’s silvery gibbon. They are made by the women-led Ambu Halimun…
ClimateGirl, 13, pulled from River Wharfe on Sunday and boy, 11, remains missing from River Don as hot spell comes to an end A 13-year-old girl has died after getting into difficulty in a river as the water-related death toll reached at least 15 in the recent UK heatwave. Emergency…
ConservationBrazil is the world’s largest consumer and importer of shark meat. But it’s not just restaurants and grocery stores — a Mongabay investigation found that the country’s government agencies have purchased thousands of tons of shark meat to serve in schools, hospitals, prisons,…
ConservationLa Moskitia, on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, is often treated in Managua as a frontier: timber, gold, cattle, rivers, votes, and military concern. To the Miskitu, Sumu-Mayangna, Rama, Garífuna, and Creole peoples who live there, it is older than the Nicaraguan state. Its…
ConservationLandowner Carlos Roberto Simonetti gets three harvests per year from the corn, soy and cotton plantations on his 17,000-hectare (about 42,000 acres) farm called Fazenda Natureza Feliz, or Happy Nature, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. Over the course of four years, he…
ConservationSmuggled in cars, aboard airplanes, or on sailboats crossing the Atlantic Ocean, tiny golden-furred monkeys are being wrenched from their Brazilian forest homes and trafficked overseas by sophisticated criminal networks. These golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) are…
