The Planet
‘Bullshit and hot air’: Why climate campaigners are angry about Emissions Reduction plan
The Government is asking for more feedback on its Emissions Reduction plan & Greenpeace isn’t happy.
Made My Day: Bats swoop in to disrupt NZ’s Bird of the Year race
A bat is now a candidate in this year’s Te Manu Rongonui o te Tau/Bird of the Year race
NZ has so many cows. Why do we import millions of tonnes of dairy?
Re: journalist Baz Macdonald got sucked down the dairy rabbit hole trying to find the answer.
Now you're in lockdown, here's three Re: series you can binge
Time to binge lockdown away.
NZ’s two biggest bread companies are phasing out plastic bag clips
New Zealand’s two major bread producers use 175 million plastic bread bag clips a year.
Dairy can’t manage its crap, but innovative farmers are trying to fix that
If I take a shit in a field, it's not a huge deal. But what if 20,000 people take a shit in a field?
Breaking down the huge UN new climate change report: it's grim
The latest climate change report shows climate change is here, it’s going to get worse.
Our dairy industry kills 2 million calves a year, but they don’t have to
These calves are killed within days or weeks of being born.
Tuatara may have the fastest sperm ever seen in reptiles, a study suggests.
Tuatara may have the fastest sperm ever seen in a reptile...
Calves, cows, and shit on the face: My week as a dairy farmer
I knew that if I really wanted to understand the dairy industry, I would need to get my hands dirty.
Why we made Milk and Money, our documentary series about dairy
Milk and Money is a six-part documentary series by Re: investigating New Zealand’s dairy industry.
How Aotearoa built its dairy empire on billions of dollars of debt | Milk and Money | Episode 1
Milk and Money, our series investigating the dairy industry is here.
Our soil quality has been declining for decades. Dairy is making it worse | Milk and Money…
“In a teaspoon of soil, there are as many microbes than there are mammals on the planet."
Why our dairy cows produce more emissions than our cars | Milk and Money | Episode 4
“The right thing to do is for all us dairy farmers to try to pull our weight."
The impact of dairy on our freshwater | Milk and Money | Episode 2
In Episode 2: Water, we explore the state of freshwater in New Zealand.
NZ doubled our dairy cows in 30 years, but it took 600% more fertiliser | Milk and Money | Episode 3
“We don’t exactly know how many cows we could sustain, but it’s a hell of a lot less than we have."
Why we may not need cows to make milk | Milk and Money | Episode 6
Half of calves in New Zealand are killed within days or weeks of being born.
Toa the orca’s prolonged separation causing concerns among animal experts
It’s been 10 days since Toa was separated from his pod in Plimmerton, near Wellington.
Hundreds evacuated in South Island after a weekend of severe rain and flooding
Hundreds of people have spent another night away from their homes on the South Island’s West Coast.
Parts of the Amazon now emitting more carbon than they absorb
Some regions of the Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb.
300 lawyers are suing the Climate Change Commission for not doing enough
They say current aims “will fail to achieve our goal of avoiding catastrophic climate change”.
Cotton buds, meat trays and plastic forks to go with new plastic ban
The plastics phase-out will take place in three stages from 2022 to 2025.
NZ households throw out $23 of food a week each
We’re chucking out 8.6 percent of our groceries each week - mostly fruit and veg.
A scientist tells us where to find NZ’s secret glaciers
Did you know Te Ika-a-Māui / the North Island has its own glaciers?
10 out of 18 freshwater taonga struggling to survive
Tuna, kākahi (freshwater mussels) and kōura (freshwater crayfish) are all at risk.
Māori may have been exploring Antarctica as far back as the seventh century
New research shows Māori and other Polynesian voyagers have been navigating Antarctica for a long time, despite the dominant narrative in the past 200 years focused…
This man has spent 40 years looking for a probably extinct bird
We ask him about his beloved hobby he calls a “bong fix”.
A weather expert explains how severe floods are linked to climate change
This article was originally published on the 5th of May 2021.
The heavy rainstorm we saw in Canterbury in May has been called a one-in-100-year downpour, but…
Do you need a freezer in Antarctica? A chef lets us know
Tom Thorpe goes about his job like any other chef, but with one major difference: it's -40C outside.
How rāhui work | Let Me Explain
A rāhui has been placed on the Tāne Mahuta boardwalk track in Waipoua Forest, Northland, after the discovery of a tūpāpaku (deceased person) in the area…