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The Russian state prosecutor today laid charges of piracy against a Greenpeace activist who protested against oil drilling in the Arctic. A freelance videographer has also been charged with piracy, which carries a maximum 15 year jail sentence. It is an extreme and disproportionate charge. Charges are expected to be ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans (1 comment)
One hundred shark fins have appeared in a lagoon on the capital city's waterfront, close to Te Papa, on Black Friday. The floating, handmade fins are part of an art installation commissioned by Greenpeace for New Zealand’s first-ever shark awareness week. The week of activities is being promoted ... keep reading
Written by Greenpeace last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Environment & Wildlife, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
The National Government is rolling out the red carpet to oil companies who can now put in bids for the right to do risky exploratory deep sea drilling off New Zealand's coastline. We saw the economic and environmental damage that can be done with the Rena disaster and that ... keep reading
Written by Gareth Hughes, Green MP last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Pollution, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
In a landmark study, scientists at The University of Queensland (UQ) have simulated future ocean conditions and found climate change will jeopardise the future of coral reefs. The study in PNAS , finds coral reefs dissolve rapidly once exposed to warmer, more acidic ocean conditions associated with business-as-usual CO2 emission ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Sustainability
Marine phytoplankton metabolism is affected by higher ocean temperatures, which trigger an increase in the rate of protein synthesis, reports a study published online this week in Nature Climate Change. These findings indicate that there is a previously unrecognized direct response to water temperature, with implications for marine biogeochemical cycling ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Climate Change, Environment & Wildlife, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
Sharks are in for an image makeover during New Zealand’s first-ever Shark Awareness Week which started this week Sharks often make the headlines for the wrong reasons so this week a series of events around NZ will focus on the vital role sharks play in maintaining the healthy balance ... keep reading
Written by Greenpeace last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Environment & Wildlife, Food, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
In a landmark study, scientists at The University of Queensland (UQ) have simulated future ocean conditions and found climate change will jeopardise the future of coral reefs. The study in PNAS , finds coral reefs dissolve rapidly once exposed to warmer, more acidic ocean conditions associated with business-as-usual CO2 emission ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Climate Change, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
Eighteenth-century philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau enlightened us with the likes of: “The world is always taken by surprise by any new example of commonsense”. Well ahead of his time, Rousseau could easily have been thinking about container deposit legislation when he penned that one. Container deposit legislation (or CDL for ... keep reading
Written by Gord Stewart last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Recycling, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Sustainability, waste
On August 16, a day most notable for the second large Seddon earthquake, the Government took yet another step backwards on climate change. Tim Groser, the Minister for Climate Change, quietly revealed that New Zealand will set a target of reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by just 5 per cent ... keep reading
Written by Barry Coates /Oxfam last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
A highly charismatic species of walking shark has been discovered in the remote eastern Indonesian island of Halmahera. The epaulette (long tailed carpet) shark,Hemiscyllium halmahera, uses its fins to "walk" across the ocean floor in search of small fish and crustaceans. The discovery comes at a time when Indonesia ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Environment & Wildlife, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
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