What needs to be done to prevent a climate-induced collapse? 🔊
Why do sustainable business initiatives so often fail? What fundamental changes do we need from societies and the economic system to stem a climate change-induced collapsed? What economic systems might work on a planet with a finite capacity to sustain life? These are...
Why do volcanoes erupt and can we forecast future activity?
By Phil Shane Why do volcanoes erupt and can we forecast future activity? Phil Shane explains the science behind volcanoes. One of the grand challenges of volcano science is understanding the behaviour of a volcano, and whether can we forecast the likelihood of future...
Why did White Island erupt and why was there no warning?
By Shane Cronin Why did White Island erupt and why was there no warning? Shane Cronin explains what happened. Five people have been confirmed dead, 31 remain in hospital with injuries and eight are still missing after sudden volcanic eruptions on Whakaari/White Island...
Off the grid: How can we optimise solar power in Oceania and beyond?
By Sean Endres As it becomes obvious that society’s use of fossil fuels needs to be addressed, renewable sources of energy have been celebrated as a way for the world to break its fossil fuel dependence. As it becomes increasingly obvious that society’s rampant use of...
Climate change: Is a careful revolution possible?
By David Hall Extract from Chapter Ten of David Hall’s new BWB Text A Careful Revolution: Towards a Low-Emissions Future. We wrote this report at your request, and with care. Will you listen please? – Andy Reisinger, one of nineteen haikus to summarise the IPCC...
Safeguarding our ocean ecosystems from tipping points
Interview with Professor Simon Thrush (head of the Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland) Your research focuses on ecosystem tipping points. What are they? A tipping point is a sudden, abrupt, often dramatic change in the way that a natural...
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...
What institutional reform befits the era of the long climate crisis?
On October 22, former MP and Green Party co-leader Russel Norman, who now leads Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand, delivered the 2019 Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture at the University of Auckland, looking at institutional reform options for dealing with climate change, in...
Is New Zealand giving away control over its water?
By Mia Chung Water issues have come into the spotlight in recent years with foreign water bottling companies setting up plants in New Zealand, as Mia Chung explains. Water issues have come into the spotlight in recent years with foreign water bottling companies...Subscribe by Email
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