AGAINST THE CURRENT: environment

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BEHIND NEW ZEALAND'S '100% PURE' IMAGE LIES A DIRTY TRUTH

This Foreign Correspondent report, broadcast in Australia last night, observes that 'polluted by intensive diary farming', New Ze...

The night sky at Lake Ellesmere, forty minutes from Christchurch. Perhaps if we stared Time in the face we might be less inclined to...

Last Saturday in Christchurch an estimated 5,000 people attended a march to protest against the granting of more water extracti...

The newly formed Extinction Rebellion says that with the world facing a environmental catastrophe, business as usual is no longer an op...

Road washed out just north of Punakaiki. The extreme weather this week has had people talking about the 'new normal' and how we...

A woman died in Christchurch this week as a direct result of the extreme temperatures the city and the region have been experiencing. Is ...

We live in scary times but NZ Herald columnist Rachel Stewart has concluded that the fight must go on. IT WAS ONLY a few months ag...

AROUND THE GLOBE this weekend people marched for the future of the planet. The message of the People’s Climate March to the climate-c...

The world has entered an entered even dangerous period, with the impact of climate change becoming even more pronounced. THE WORLD ...

Labour's Clare Curran should be telling her own party to get serious about climate change, not Professor Jim Flynn. IT IS DISAPPOI...

Naomi Klein, the author of This Changes Everything , says we must make the leap between what is, and what must be. “A great deal of the ...

Hundreds of activists in kayaks and small boats were on the waters on Saturday to protest plans by Royal Dutch Shell to resume oil expl...

Some of Mike Hosking's "crazy" protesters. Mike Hosking rushes to the defence of a poor old property developer who wants t...

Most of the New Zealand left has become much a part of the political establishment that it purports to criticise, with all roads, in the en...

Mike Treen, the National Director of the Unite Union, was last seen campaigning for the election of a Labour-led government and 'marke...

Naomi Klein's new book This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs the Climate is published on September 18. Klein writes that it is ca...

THE CRISIS OF CIVILIZATION is a 2011 documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltd...

Unlike Russel Norman and the Green Party who are calling for a 'green capitalism', the Global Climate Convergence recognise...

The National - led government continues to show a casual disregard for pressing environment issues and the very real threat of ecological...