Less than 1% of our country’s seas are highly protected and the damaging practice of bottom-trawling must be restricted
It’s a remarkable feat that a small, isolated island nation of just five million people has managed to stake a claim to one of the largest ocean territories in the world.
New Zealand’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) spans more than 4m square kilometres – an area 15 times the size of our landmass.
Rt Hon Helen Clark is a former prime minister of New Zealand, and former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Dr Kayla Kingdon-Bebb is chief executive of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) New Zealand.
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06/09/2025 - 18:34
Findings highlight how misinformation about battery safety prevents drivers from investing in low-emission cars
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More than a third of Australians believe misinformation about electric vehicles, while almost half accept the myth that battery-powered cars are more likely to catch fire, a study shows.
Interventions using fact sheets and artificial intelligence chatbots may help lower false beliefs, researchers say, but those with a strong “conspiracy mentality” are harder to convince.
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06/09/2025 - 18:01
Ed Miliband promises to ‘get Britain off the fossil fuel rollercoaster’ with new plant expected to create 10,000 jobs
The biggest nuclear programme in a generation will “get Britain off the fossil fuel rollercoaster”, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has said, announcing £14.2bn to build a new nuclear power station and a drive to build small modular reactors.
The multibillion-pound investment at Sizewell C on the Suffolk coast, which has been long expected, will create 10,000 jobs and power the equivalent of 6m homes.
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06/09/2025 - 18:01
Only 7% of Britain’s woodlands in good condition, while number of birds fell by 15% over last five years
The variety of wildlife in the UK’s woodlands continues to decline as the habitats deteriorate, according to a new report.
The Woodland Trust found that the progressively worsening ecological condition of woodlands is making them a less effective habitat for the wildlife living in them.
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06/09/2025 - 13:47
Chair of troubled firm admits 21 senior managers were paid 50% of base salary on 30 April
The environment secretary has been asked if he will claw back controversial bonus payments to Thames Water senior executives after it emerged some bonuses had already been paid out.
Last month, Steve Reed vowed to block bonuses that Thames Water proposed to pay to managers at the beleaguered company. The firm’s chair has been forced to admit that bonuses have already been paid to executives out of a £3bn emergency loan paid by creditors for the purpose of rescuing Thames from financial collapse.
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06/09/2025 - 13:00
Over the last decade, Colombia’s ‘city of eternal spring’ has embarked on an ambitious effort to restore greenery to public parks, transit corridors and even high-rises
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06/09/2025 - 11:56
Speaking at summit in France, António Guterres calls for bold pledges to stop deep sea becoming ‘wild west’
Nations must move from “plunder to protection” in order to save the world’s seas from crisis, the UN chief, António Guterres, told the ocean summit on Monday.
All countries must come forward with “bold pledges” including a biodiversity target to protect at least 30% of the ocean by 2030, to tackle plastic pollution, overfishing and for greater governance of the high seas, he said at the opening ceremony. Guterres also stressed the importance of multilateralism and warned, in an apparent swipe at the US, which was not present at the conference: “The deep sea cannot become the wild west.”
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06/09/2025 - 10:00
Call to include forest comes amid frustration at how long it is taking Minns government to declare park’s boundaries and meet its election commitment
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Forest advocates say an important area that is home to endangered koalas and southern greater gliders has been left out of the Minns government’s assessment for its proposed great koala national park in northern New South Wales.
WWF-Australia, the National Parks Association of NSW and community forest groups from the mid-north coast region have urged the state’s environment minister, Penny Sharpe, to consider including the 528ha area in the promised park after drone surveys detected a “high density” of threatened species.
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06/09/2025 - 06:29
Party joins MPs across political spectrum in supporting bird conservation amendment similar to one blocked by Labour
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Reform UK has joined MPs from across the political spectrum in supporting an amendment to provide every new home in England with at least one swift brick to help endangered cavity-nesting birds, after a similar amendment was blocked by Labour in the committee stage.
Richard Tice, a former housing developer and the Reform deputy leader, said his party’s MPs would support a revised amendment tabled by Labour’s Barry Gardiner to incorporate the measure in the government’s increasingly controversial planning bill.
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06/09/2025 - 06:00
US power sector would be world’s sixth largest emitter of planet-heating greenhouse gas if it were a country – study
Donald Trump’s administration is set to claim planet-heating pollution spewing from US power plants is so globally insignificant it should be spared any sort of climate regulation.
But, in fact, the volume of these emissions is stark – if the US power sector were a country, it would be the sixth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
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