Environment – Views & Research

Crude oil tankers, bulk carriers and other vessels idle at anchor as they wait to pass the Strait of Hormuz.

Ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz region may be biosecurity risks when they leave. What can we do?

Chad Hewitt, Lincoln University, New Zealand; Gregory Ruiz, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Ian Davidson, Cawthron Institute, and Mario Tamburri, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Disabled people face greater climate change risks – and they can also help NZ adapt

Raven Cretney, Lincoln University, New Zealand

Wetlands are crucial food baskets for NZ’s native eels – new research

Simon Stewart, Cawthron Institute and Robin Holmes, Cawthron Institute

Native new zealand eel swimming in river near bank.

With contentious fisheries reforms on hold, should NZ rethink bottom trawling?

Simon Francis Thrush, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Data centres are power hungry – but they don’t have to be a burden on NZ’s grid

Alan Brent, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Stellenbosch University and Andrew Crossland, Durham University

NZ’s overhaul of nature protection laws is a chance to move away from ‘fortress conservation’

Elizabeth Macpherson, University of Canterbury and David Jefferson, University of Canterbury

NZ’s approval of Roundup relies on industry-funded reviews currently under investigation

Alexander Kaurov, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

Person in protective gear and wearing a mask spraying some plants

Bird flu has reached New Zealand – what this means and what comes next

Jemma Geoghegan, University of Otago and Nigel French, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University

Climate change will raise the risk of severe heatwaves. NZ homes aren’t ready

Baxter Kamana-Williams, University of Notre Dame; J. Geoffrey Chase, University of Canterbury, and Rebecca Peer, University of Canterbury

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Ten-million-year-old fossil snails in a water-worn boulder from a site in the southern North Island.

NZ’s unique fossil record of marine molluscs helps scientists predict extinction risk – before it’s too late

James S. Crampton, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

Distribution of cosmic matter based on DESI data.

The universe is less uniform than we thought – cosmology may need a radical rethink

Marco Galoppo, University of Canterbury and Francesco Sylos Labini, Enrico Fermi Research Institute

Two pied stilts standing on a mossy bank in a wetland

NZ’s ‘light-touch’ approach to voluntary carbon and nature markets may unlock finance but risks credibility

Jennifer Campion, University of Waikato

As communities face more frequent hazard warnings, we need better systems to avoid ‘emergency fatigue’

Shaun Eaves, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Cathrine Dyer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, and James Renwick, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

Stormy seas pound the coastline in the Wellington suburb of Island Bay.

NZ’s new forestry rules promise consistency. Will they also increase environmental risk?

Steve Urlich, Lincoln University, New Zealand

‘Like drinking from a firehose’ – what it’s like to be the human in the AI loop

Mary Tate, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Haibo Yang, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

Close-up view of computer code displayed on a digital screen, with blurred lines of text and glowing blue and purple light reflections.

UN report warns AI could soon use 3% of world’s electricity and more water than we need to drink

Amanda Turnbull-McRae, University of Waikato

Would you buy milk from a gene-edited cow? Consumers may be more open than you think

Damien Mather, University of Otago; Goetz Laible, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau, and Kara Xiaohui Ma, University of Otago

A ‘supereruption’ transformed NZ 350,000 years ago. We now know how it happened

Anna Miller, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

De-extinction company says it’s made an artificial egg – if true, it could help save living species

Nic Rawlence, University of Otago

A newly hatched chicken cupped in hands wearing blue gloves

Honeybees may be helping spread tree-killing myrtle rust – new research

Sacchi Shin-Clayton, University of Cambridge and Jacqueline R Beggs, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

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