New Zealand Green News

This would enable New Zealand to show environmental leadership and protect its clean green reputation.” The number of people who’ve joined Greenpeace New Zealand’s Sign On campaign in support of 40% by 2020 now stands at 175,000; about 4% of...

00 27/11/2009 A dramatic drop in the estimated possum population is good news for native birds. New research shows possum numbers have plummeted from between 60 and 70 million during the 1980s, to about 30 million.

Maori Party will stand by ETS deal 25/11/2009 12:32:02 The Maori Party's co-vice president Te Orohi Paul is denying suggestions it could backtrack on its ETS support deal with National > Read More Frontage of chartered accountants' firm in Patea...

Horizons Regional Council is astonished over claims the Manawatu River is the one of the most polluted in the Western world. Research by the Cawthron Institute has found the Manawatu tops a new pollution measurement of 300 rivers and streams...

New Zealand is preparing for some rare spring visitors. More than 100 icebergs that were first spotted off the coast of Macquarie Island, an Australian territory around 900 miles south east of Tasmania, are now thought to be only 200...

John Tyler rears honeybees and has lost millions. Yes, thieves broke into his farm and stole 28 of his hives. Each of the hives weighed around 25 kilograms and was valued at $7500. In the bargain, John has lost his...

A number of countries are talking about introducing border taxes to protect their local industry from imports from countries that have no or soft policies to tackle climate change. This is a risk to New Zealand’s exports, but overseas consumer...

New Zealand — Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that groups of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday. The alert comes three years after cold...

A badly burned boy has been pulled to safety after an explosion in a shipping container in Hamilton, accelerant ignited by cigarette Read More Phil Tataurangi, Brad Heaven, Brad Iles and Steven Alker are all set to progress to the...

After years of debate New Zealand is set to have a working emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2010. The centrepiece of climate change policy will come into force after National and the Maori Party today reached a deal to amend...