Sep 25, 2024 | Politics & Society
By Caroline Shaw, Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Otago. Photo is NZ AK Queen Street by Itineris55, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. With walking and cycling funding halved in the government’s recently released National Land Transport Programme, and a...
Sep 11, 2024 | Science & Technology
By Priyanka Dhopade and Catherine Qualtrough of the University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau. Photo is STS-129 Atlantis Ready to Fly by NASA/Bill Ingalls, used under public domain license. Like the global space industry, which aims to reach a value of US$1.8...
Sep 5, 2024 | Politics & Society
By Dr Tim Welch, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau. Photo used is Auckland traffic by Kiwiev, used under CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The government’s new National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) could easily have been renamed the “highway...
Sep 2, 2024 | Business & Economics
By Stephen Poletti, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Bruce Mountain, Victoria University (Melbourne); Geoff Bertram, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington. Photo used is Solar on Metal Roof by Wikideas1, used under CC0 1.0 Universal. ...
Aug 30, 2024 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Science & Technology
Living root bridges of Nongriat village in East Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya. Photo by PJeganathan, licensed by CC BY-SA 4.0. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has outlined a plan for humanity to live in harmony with nature by 2050. Our cities aren’t...
Aug 23, 2024 | Science & Technology
By Victor Gambarini, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau. Photo used is Microplastic by Oregon State University, used under CC BY-SA 2.0 Marine plastic pollution is a massive environmental issue, with a plastic smog of an estimated 170 trillion particles...
Aug 1, 2024 | Business & Economics, Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Science & Technology
AgriSea CEO Clare Bradley and Tane Bradley (AgriSea CIO) inspect a seaweed harvest on a New Zealand beach. ©AgriSea. With increasing interest in aquaculture as an alternative to land-based agriculture, Dr Pauline Herbst speaks to Prof Andrew Jeffs, from the Institute...
Jun 13, 2024 | Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society, Science & Technology
Brisbane City Flood 2013. Photo by ShepsSnaps, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 With over half the global population living in urban centres, a number which is projected to rise to around two-thirds by 2050, the relationship between cities and the climate crisis is...
May 20, 2024 | Events, Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Science & Technology
On Earth Day 2024, Ngā Ara Whetū partnered with Te Aka Mātauranga Matepukupuku, the Centre for Cancer Research, to discuss the ubiquitous presence of plastics in our environment, and the impact they are having to the land, sea, air, animals, and on our own health and...
Apr 3, 2024 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Science & Technology
Flooded. Photo by Peter Castleton, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Sustain is a podcast brought to you by Ngā Ara Whetū: Centre for Climate, Biodiversity, and Society. As the climate crisis continues, flooding has become an increasingly serious problem, causing death and...