Mar 21, 2023 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Science & Technology
Housing intensification in Hamilton. PCE, CC BY-SA Timothy Welch, University of Auckland Recent extreme weather events have provided a foretaste of how supercharged storms might threaten our future. So the release today of a new report from the Parliamentary...
Jan 5, 2023 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
Photo by YoTuT, licensed under CC BY 2.0. By Annalise O’Sullivan-Moffat Although the importance of water as a resource is well accepted, fewer people know that sand is the second most consumed resource globally. Why is sand so important? Sand is a...
Dec 22, 2022 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
Madang, West Papua. Photo by Jonathan E. Shaw, Flickr (CC BY_NC 2.0) By Ben Wray OPINION: Independence activists want to combine the best parts of liberal democracy with indigenous traditions. Due to the strength of their diverse indigenous...
Dec 15, 2022 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
Photo by UN Women Gallery , licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 By Bex Ansell and Izzy Renton On November 14th, 2022, COP27 included the conference’s first-ever day devoted to gender. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, laid out three things the UN Climate...
Dec 12, 2022 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
Photo by Tomas Sobek, Unsplash Nathan Cooper Thousands of delegates have gathered in Montreal, Canada, for a once-in-a-decade chance to address the accelerating pace of species loss and the dangers of ecosystem breakdown. COP15 brings together parties to the UN...
Nov 30, 2022 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
By Oxfam East Africa – Kuay Makuach, farmer, Lankien, South Sudan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Amelia Womack Warning: This article contains images of dead animals that some readers may find distressing After two weeks of fractious discussions, at the very...
Nov 22, 2022 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
IAEA Imagebank Matt McDonald, The University of Queensland For 30 years, developing nations have fought to establish an international fund to pay for the “loss and damage” they suffer as a result of climate change. As the COP27 climate summit in Egypt wrapped up over...
Nov 16, 2022 | Business & Economics, Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society, Science & Technology
New Zealand’s first wind turbine, built in Brooklyn, Wellington, in 1993. Wikimedia The Big Q is partnering with the University of Auckland’s Climate Systems Laboratory and Ngā Ara Whetū Centre for Climate, Biodiversity and Society. During this...
Nov 9, 2022 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
Sharm El-Sheikh on the Red Sea coast is best known for tourism and conferences. By Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Jen Allan, Cardiff University The world’s leaders are gathering for another global climate meeting, this time in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt....
Apr 24, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Politics & Society
By Bedross Der Matossian In April 1909, two waves of massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey, killing more than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 Muslims. The central Ottoman government failed to prosecute the main...