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More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people—nearly 200,000 kids—tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts.

Over the past few decades, there has been a significant loss of pollinators, including honey bees, native bees, birds, bats, and butterflies, from the environment. The problem is serious and requires immediate attention to ensure the sustainability of our food production systems, avoid additional economic…

The Government has opened up more than 3000 square kilometres of a marine mammal sanctuary for oil and gas drilling, home to the critically endangered Maui’s dolphin. It comes less than a week after the International Whaling Commission urged our Government to do more to…

The traditional power industry is finally facing a mass defection because of a source once dismissed as a pipe dream.

After the referendum against asset sales showed that 2/3 people were against asset sales, the National Government can apparently still see no reason to stop the sale.

It just happened that I stumbled across one of my old blob posts regarding the Kyoto Protocol. Under one heading called “New Zealand’s obligations under the Protocol” it will take you to a passage that reads: The most important obligation that would be imposed on…

Everybody is talking climate change, storms are increasing, weather fluctuations increasing and no trace of ETS anywhere. Meanwhile large companies GHG emissions going up instead of down (http://www.environmentalleader.com) and so do NZ GHG emissions (http://www.scoop.co.nz)

Not quite sure whether it is actually the world's first one, since Norway has done a similar thing: Norway Mandates CSR Reporting Via GreenBIZ India is the first country to pass a corporate responsibility law requiring larger companies to spend 2% of each year's profit…

In 2010, the Centre for Advanced Engineering at Canterbury University studied the impact of various rates of electric vehicle (EV) uptake on New Zealand’s electricity grid. 
In their lowest uptake scenario, they projected 200,000 EVs on our roads by 2025, while a rapid-uptake scenario projected…

Via globalreporting.org, 2013-06-12 On 1 June, newly-passed regulation on sustainability reporting came into force in Norway. The Norwegian government passed the legislation in April, requiring large companies to provide information on how they integrate social responsibility into their business strategies. This represents an important milestone…