Oct 30, 2023 | Featured, Science & Technology
Words by Kaitlin Naughten, British Antarctic Survey; Jan De Rydt, Northumbria University, Newcastle, and Paul Holland, British Antarctic Survey Photo by Derek Oyen on Unsplash The rate at which the warming Southern Ocean melts the West Antarctic ice sheet will...
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...
Jan 20, 2022 | Science & Technology
By Sally Warner What causes a tsunami? An ocean scientist explains the physics of these destructive waves. On Jan. 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga erupted, sending a tsunami racing across the Pacific Ocean in all directions. As word of the...
Aug 23, 2021 | Politics & Society, Science & Technology
This month, the IPCC released its sixth assessment report. This report was the starkest of any of the IPCC reports thus far. The effects of the failure to act on the threat of climate change and the need to make immediate changes in governmental and societal practices...
Aug 19, 2021 | Politics & Society, Science & Technology
By Jacqueline Peel, Kathryn Bowen & Ben Neville The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the scientific playbook for charting our climate future – but we must act immediately. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has...
Feb 25, 2021 | Science & Technology
By Jen Purdie As New Zealand gets serious about climate change, can electricity replace fossil fuels in time? As fossil fuels are phased out over the coming decades, the Climate Change Commission (CCC) suggests electricity will take up much of the slack, powering our...
Feb 11, 2021 | Business & Economics, Science & Technology
By Robert McLachlan How to cut emissions from transport: ban fossil fuel cars, electrify transport and get people walking and cycling, according to Robert McLachlan. The Climate Change Commission’s draft advice on how to decarbonise New Zealand’s economy is...
Feb 11, 2021 | Science & Technology
By James Renwick In a new report, the Climate Change Commission has called on the New Zealand government to take ‘immediate and decisive action’ to cut emissions. New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission today released its long-anticipated advice to the...
Sep 9, 2020 | Science & Technology
By Zebedee Nicholls & Tim Baxter Methane is a shorter-lived greenhouse gas – why do we average it out over 100 years? By doing so, do we risk emitting so much in the upcoming decades that we reach climate tipping points? The climate conversation is often...
Aug 20, 2020 | Science & Technology
The natural sciences that allow us to understand the environment are at the heart of developing strategies to adapt to, survive, and thrive as climate changes. Water is at the heart of many of the most complex problems in climate sciences: understanding the behavior...