Climate Change
The Week in Detail: Reserve Bank, Ukraine, and the Pacific
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
How do you move an island?
Sea level rise is already destroying people's homes across the Pacific. How do you move a whole island community? Audio
The Week in Detail: AI, party presidents, and food banks
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Can we punish our biggest emitters through the courts?
Our highest appellate court is being asked to do what Parliament will not - hold companies liable for contributing to climate change. Audio
The Living Laboratories project
The Auckland University of Technology Living Laboratories project is all about investigating how best to grow back native forest. At Pourewa creek, this collaboration between AUT and Ngāti Whātua… Audio
Our Changing World - Researching native regeneration
The Auckland University of Technology Living Laboratories project team are running planting experiments to investigate how best to restore native forests. Audio
Watch: Govt releases long-term strategy to deal with climate change
For the first time Aotearoa has a long-term strategy to deal with the effects of climate change, but the government plan released today contains few answers to tough questions like who pays for what.
Seagrass restoration project aimed at fighting climate change
A new seagrass restoration project is being trialed with the hope it can then create an effective way to plant more of it around Aotearoa and help fight climate change. Cawthron Institute lead… Audio
COP26 President urges NZ build on emissions reduction plan
The head of the organisation tasked with cutting climate gases globally says New Zealand must follow through on its promise to halve emissions - and look at doing more.
COP26 President and UK… Video, Audio
Midweek Mediawatch - Climate context & Hawaiian holidays
In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Bryan Crump about a big resignation at TVNZ, media outlets getting it right on climate coverage, news stories vanishing without… Audio
Superpowers cast big shadow on Pacific forum
It's one of the most high-stakes Pacific Islands Forum in recent memory, but political power plays may be standing in the way of real progress. Audio
Coastal erosion could see 100 Hawke's Bay properties go in 20 years - report
Hawke's Bay's dramatic coastline, with its houses often blasted by wild weather, may change completely as rising sea levels threaten to force people from their homes.
The Week in Detail: Crisis comms, Covid-19, and forfeiting feta
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Dead penguins another climate change conundrum
Some Adelie penguin colonies in Antarctica have been there for centuries. Which means there is a build up of thousands of years of penguin poo and carcasses. Warming temperatures will increase the… Audio
Business leaders call for meaningful climate action
The Climate Leaders' Coalition - whose 96 signatories are responsible for almost 60 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions - will today officially launch a Statement of Ambition, which aims… Audio
The resilience of crayfish in Tauranga Harbour
PhD student Kiamaia Ellis describes crayfish as a vulnerable taonga species. Local iwi in Tauranga believe the crayfish population is decreasing because of urban, industrial and harvesting pressures… Audio
Can Neoliberalism Tackle Climate Change?
Associate Professor Brian Roper from Otago University's Politics Departmant is back. Tonight he asks if emissions trading and the promotion of EVs will be effective in reducing emissions. Audio
Counting our farming emissions
Twenty years ago, he thought human-induced climate change was a load of rubbish. Now, George Moss' dairy farms are leading the way in counting - and cutting - greenhouse gas emissions. Audio
Wellington writer Clare Moleta explores the dark side of motherhood in her debut novel
Unsheltered is the riveting story of one mother’s search for her child across a climate-ravaged continent in a dystopian future. Clare Moleta talks with Pip Adam about her inspirations. Audio
Auckland's climate budget passes - what's in it?
Auckland's billion-dollar budget passed last week, which means the city's households will soon be paying into a dedicated fund to help tackle climate change. Audio