Wonderful. Hawaiian waka comes to Waitangi, 40 years after sparking revival of Māori ocean voyaging #OceanVoyaging #WakaHourua www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Feels kinda weird that #Northland could well be included in this tropical agriculture group in the future - already some parts have become #subtropical. TropAg draws global crowd to tackle food security #WarmingWorld #agsky www.graincentral.com/people-on-th...

Ok so odd location, thought I remembered more of this old volcanic rock out to sea, still there’s zero wind or cloud. All set up at Cooks Rock for Aurora Australis

Gorgeous. Art Deco.

Not all good news. National Grid emergency notice sparked by solar storm #AuroraAustralis #solarstorm #GridEmergency www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

As Corporal Jones would say "Don't panic, Mr. Mainwaring" BUT holly #Aurora Alert Batman! There's a big fuck off Aurora going off right now & for the next 24hrs. If this keeps up, it will visible from Auckland New Zealand after dark. Moon doesn't rise till 2:45am tomorrow so no issue.

Farmers on the #CanterburyPlains should make the most of this - plant up your boundaries and paddock corners with natives - you’ll get more native bird bang for your buck 😁 Nectar at highest concentrations on native trees along NZ's dry east coast - study #agsky #NZAg www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...

Sewage overflow: $1 million compensation deal struck with oyster farmers #Aquaculture #Wastewater #OysterFarming #agsky www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Good morning with good news: "China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months!" Transport CO2 fell 5% & electricity CO2 is flat, despite strong demand growth, in Q3 2025, compared to 2024. Solar surged 46% & wind 11% in Q3 2025! www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi... #energysky

Good morning with good news: Renewables & nuclear are ~75% of EU's electricity, while fossil fuels drop ~30%-50% since 2016. Coal is well below 10% from April-Sept & gas below 16% from March-Sept. RE generated from ~41% to 57% during Jan-Sept 2025. Nuclear produced ~21% to 25%. #energysky

Buried in the IPCA report: the cops who showed moral courage #JevonMcSkimmingDownfall www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

My back yard: Nice writeup about Matakana village and our famous loo's. People Are Traveling Just To Take Photos Of This Bathroom In New Zealand #Matakana www.forbes.com/sites/jordil...

This is great. Sadly I won’t be able to make it to the Auckland events. waateanews.com/2025/11/08/l...

😳 Former Police Commissioner Andrew Coster placed on leave from CEO role after release of damning report www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Hello from Chicago! There is no such thing as the “Miracle Mile Shopping Center.” That is a thing that exists only in this doddering old man’s imagination.

I attended an 'Electrify your farm' event yesterday in New Plymouth with Mike as the main presenter. Very knowledgeable and motivational chap that had the, mainly dairy farmer, attendees impressed. Great to 1 on 1 with him at one stage and compare PV/EV notes. Very personable chap.

Not only keeping the lights on at the milking shed during a storm - keeping the irrigators going in the heat of summer when the grid is also struggling.👍 Solar kept milk flowing in Southland blackout #renewables #solarsystems #agsky #Solarfarming #energysky www.farmersweekly.co.nz/technology/s...

The nuts and bolts behind Ewan White and Mike Caseys fully electric cherry orchard and the Electric Cherries brand. #ElectrifyEverything #Renewables #solar #agsky #energysky issuu.com/hortnz/docs/...

Good to get some good news about #climatechange for a change. After the Paris Agreement, the decade that defied predictions #agsky #energysky #renewables newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/a...

A surprisingly good read. I always loved the song and the video. The idea behind it was pure fantasy. Take On Me has been stuck in our heads for 40 years. Here’s how it got there #A-ha www.stuff.co.nz/culture/3608...

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"Why should our experience at 10 kilometers an hour constrain the laws of nature at 300,000 kilometers a second?" -Carl Sagan, astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator Happy #BicycleBirthday, Carl Sagan! November 9 (1934-1996)

Paywalled - but just look at that image. China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics #energysky #renewables #solar www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Great piece. #RosalindFranklin

Good thread. Some irony the death of James Watson is potentially generating more interest in fellow scientist #RosalindFranklin s life than his own. #FeministIcon #DNA #Double-helix #NobelPrize

That’s better. 👍 #bioluminescence www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

#Bioluminescence: It must have been quite a sight, but this piece is very short on detail. A quick call to a marine biologist would have helped. Why is the Hibiscus Coast the best place to view.🧐 Auckland's bioluminescence at Stanmore Bay described as 'unforgettable' www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

'Political capture': A blistering take down of the government over unilateral changes to the #ZeroCarbonAct this week. Don't get fooled on climate change again #ClimateChange #agsky www.linkedin.com/pulse/dont-g...

Living in rural #Matakana. Mud in winter and magic in summer. #Guardian of #OmahaBeach

Looking mighty fine this afternoon #OmahaBeach My back yard. #beachlife

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I mean what’s a little plea deal on a Thursday afternoon

One of my Coastguard Hibiscus crew mates took this picture earlier tonight and captioned it “early Christmas”. It’s the view from his place in Army Bay, Whangaparaoa

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For anyone who hasn’t heard Zohran Mamdani's speech - here it is. It’s pretty remarkable. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Georgia Democrats had not won a statewide race that wasn't for a federal office since 2006. They won two races tonight, both against GOP incumbents. The margins? 62% to 38% in both.

Reddit added to Australia's #SocialMediaBan on under-16s www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW: Security camera shows crash of UPS Flight 2976 in Louisville, Kentucky

#renewables #energysky

You can eat any mushroom. Some of them, only once.

Whoa! Oh, the brave new world as geo-politics changes. China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show www.bbc.com/news/article...

🎶The times they are a changin🎶 Payrolled but you get the drift - more farmers seeing the light. There are some fabulous farmers out there totally onto it - but there are some die hard deniers too. Loved Eliza’s connected post 😁 #climatechange #SeeingTheLight #FarmersForClimateAction

What happens to marine life when you simply stop fishing - happened after the #Rena ran aground. 'Silverlining squandered as Astrolabe reef decimated again after Rena. We need havens everywhere for marine life - a plan B for #climatechange. #marineconservation www.stuff.co.nz/environment/...

Sensible. Sheep are remarkably good at grass control on scrappy land - lawnmowers. And unlike mechanical mowers they provide free fertiliser. In the UK they call them #flyingflocks. Christchurch City Council trialling sheep to combat fire risk in Port Hills #agsky www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

No guard rails.

The #HaurakiGulf is a wonder - one of the richest marine environments around our coast. While we have #NationalParks on land that we treasure, #MarineConservation has been left behind. Can new Hauraki protections bridge the promise vs action gulf? #greensky newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/03/c...

For the rest of the world, the single case of Mike Johnson refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva after her special election win, because Johnson knows her vote will tip the scales for the release of the Epstein files, is enough evidence by itself that the U.S. political system is broken and lawless.