Both Chrises had to answer “recycling” to their individual climate action because they literally couldn’t say anything else. Answering that you drive a Tesla reminds people you’re rich, saying you’re trying to cut down on meat puts you offside with heartland Kiwis.

My OCD mind is breaking that this travel writer is casually telling the world she washed her clothes in bidets stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-… Don't worry, she reassures, the dedicated bottom-washers are "usually sparkling clean", she says - usually??!!

People sometimes ask me how I can remain optimistic that we can address the climate crisis. This is why: 👇

Imagine being one of the most powerful industries in NZ and instead of responding directly to criticism you were harming the climate you go running to your industry mag to claim a story was “misleading” 🙄🙄🙄 stuff.co.nz/motoring/13304…

It is sort of genius though 😬 the hypocrisy laid bare in how we romanticise historical protesters & revolutions that have got us to where we are today - even the very violent ones - but hate anything that inconveniences us now

If National and Act together get 60 seats in the general (after specials) and then National picks up this overhang by way of an archaic technicality allowing them to form a govt without NZF... That would be something.

"I'm not crying for my parents - I am crying for those who will lose their lives in this war. We must stop the war." Powerful testimony from מעוז معوز Maoz on BBC News (UK) - just days after his parents, Bilha and Yakov, were killed by Hamas.

Was cool to be interviewed for something a bit different on @TheProject_NZ: The emotional toll of working on climate change. Anxiety/dread/distress are all rational responses to the irrational climate crisis.

My story is pretty straightforward - the UAE planned to use the COP28 climate talks to make oil deals. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

"All three parties, but National particularly, have seriously underestimated the kind of international backlash they’re going to see" for restarting oil and gas exploration, WWF New Zealand's Kayla Kingdon-Bebb tells me. newsroom.co.nz/2023/11/30/nz-…

So unless you earn £38K you can no longer marry anyone who doesn’t have their own right to live here. People keep saying that means 73 per cent of Brits can’t marry a foreigner - but it’s worse than that isn’t it? You get married when you’re young. Hardly anyone young earns that.

Welcome to day 9 of #COP28! What's very clear as we enter week 2 is: Fossil fuel phaseout is the number 1 issue of this COP. Whether there's a deal at the end on FFPO will define whether COP28 has succeeded or failed. 🧵

Cop28: China is not blocking a decision to phase out or perhaps to phase down fossil fuels, but is engaging constructively on what a form of words could be theguardian.com/environment/20…

Yesterday the Transport Minister said the draft clean car RIS would be proactively released by the Ministry of Transport. I asked for a heads up for when this would be released. Today I was told they would be treating it as an OIA.

There's a Hobbiton marathon did anyone know about this 👀

What an incredible incredible photograph. It was taken by British amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani and has just won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award.

Devastated to hear about Rod Oram. He was incredibly kind and generous to younger journalists.

Acting ambitiously on climate change will be better for society and the economy than a business-as-usual scenario, the commission has found. newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/08/fiv…

A rare "OMG" moment in climate news. The EU cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 8.3% last year. That's almost as much as it fell in the pandemic. But with stable (okay stagnant) GDP and renewable energy doing the heavy lifting. Story by Federica Di Sario pro.politico.eu/news/188619

Abortion bans kill another woman. On the day of her baby shower, Nevaeh Crain went to the ER bleeding & feverish. She was diagnosed with sepsis, a deadly infection - but her fetus still had a heart beat. She was sent home. After her 3rd ER visit, she died. propublica.org/article/nevaeh…