How can we get New Zealanders out of their cars?
By Timothy Welch To get New Zealanders out of their cars we’ll need to start charging the true cost of driving. In light of last week’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report confirming human activity is “unequivocally” driving global warming, here’s a...
What is the impact of air pollution on life expectancy?
By Nilakshi Waidyatillake, Mark Stevenson & Shyamali Dharmage Air pollution is already having devastating effects on human health, now a new study shows how particulate matter in the air is associated with premature deaths. Since early 2020, when much of the world...
How can we clean up space?
By Gilbert Wong Space might be the final frontier, but, like all frontiers it’s strewn with junk. Luckily, Professor Guglielmo Aglietti, director of the Auckland Space Institute has a plan. Three giant monitors line the front of the Mission Operations Control Centre...
Just how bad is plastic pollution? How can we solve the plastics problem?
By Liam Prince, Emily Joy Frost, Ursula Rojas & Mark Lungley Plastics are big news: the Government has just announced they will phase out a range of single-use and hard-to-recycle plastics. Plastic Free July is upon us. But are you someone who wonders what all the...
Who is obscuring the link between harmful chemicals and leukaemia?
By Manuel Vallee Research shows that disease is invariably related to pollution in subtle but intimate ways, as Manuel Vallee explains. How reliable is the disease information provided by mass media? What gaps exist in their coverage? In particular, how well do they...
How bad is the microplastic pollution in our waterways?
By Gilbert Wong The streams here are small and New Zealand is supposed to be clean, but the levels were the same as the Danube and the Rhine. Nadezhda Dikareva is an expert in something she wishes she didn’t have to be. Arguably she is the most knowledgeable person in...
Coronavirus lockdown: Is a low-carbon future possible?
By Paul Monks Lockdown’s effect on air pollution provides a rare glimpse of a low-carbon future. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused industrial activity to shut down and cancelled flights and other journeys, slashing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution around the...
What technologies can help clean up rivers? 🔊
New Zealand has a dirty rivers problem. In 2017, two-thirds of the country’s rivers were deemed too polluted to swim in. Given this, research is being carried out to find ways in which the country can attempt to clean up its rivers. Ngārie Scartozzi is a student...
How does climate change impact our health?
By Farah Qaiser A new Lancet Countdown report presents the lifelong health consequences that a child born today will face from climate change. We often talk about climate change in terms of melting icebergs, rising seawater, and elevated temperatures, but what about...Subscribe by Email
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