If only there was some centralised water management agency that could prioritise risk, allocate resources and manage decades of underinvestment before the shit hit the literal fan was in place. Oh something something 3 something is coming to me ... something about Waters... #nzpol

“In New Zealand, X holds just over 6% of the social media market, so it’s now a platform with barely a sliver of reach.” Not even wide use by the NZ public, so definitely no good reason for government agencies or politicians to be on a CSAM and racism-spewing site. PSC should get agencies off it.

Helen Petousis-Harris's piece on how the WHO is vital for New Zealand just nails it. While I am here, can I also just say that @helenp-h.bsky.social is a national treasure. theconversation.com/who-membersh...

If you want to save New Zealands only native pod of Blue Whales read on. NZ First MP Shane Jones has just been given a free pass by TVNZ news to make a statement condemning environmental concerns regarding US rare earth mining in NZ specifically off the coast of Taranaki home of our Blue whales

this is the question.

So this is where the NZ National coalition got there ideas from. Also interesting considering the timing given the coalition is actively in talks with the US to allow US companies to extract minerals from NZ. #nzpol

Book: Billionaires’ promises “wildly implausible” to “profoundly immoral” – & "paves the way for a descent into oligarchy." They also emerge as a new, Silicon Valley-styled “insidious form of climate denial” and what he calls greenwashing tactics. 🌎🧪 www.desmog.com/2026/02/04/q...

Hey #conservation sky 🌎🌍🌏! Do you feel like you've been living a double life lately, working to save biodiversity while fighting to save democracy? Me too. And I can't keep quiet about it anymore. I hope you won't either. www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-m...

Living bridges. Flying foxes. A tennis superstar. A lost temple. An animated banyan. Ladders for primates — and more! planetficus.substack.com/p/planet-fic... ... just another month on Planet Ficus 🌏🧪

We are brainwashed to believe that tech = a better life and more prosperity..Enter the data/AI centre and watch as your powerbill and council rates go through the roof, you might even see your taps run dry.

What should alarm us about the Epstein files isn’t just the appalling details, which are horrific and criminal. It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.

"Motorists would be able to drive over them" Then what's the bloody point? Damaging vehicles that try to drive in the cycle lane is the goddamn point

Davidson sticks it to Seymour quite well on wealth tax IMO (Not paywalled) #nzpol

Fixing the basics..

House insurance premiums have risen over 900% since 2000 due to increased climate-related risks eg flooding, landslides... A logical approach would be to mitigate climate change by transitioning away from fossil fuels. But no, the government prefers blaming it on insurers. Another fail #nzpol

“These chemicals are banned in warfare by international treaties, but they have been used by U.S. law enforcement against civilians for decades”

This is what Santana s proposed Bendigo mine will do in Otago if it goes ahead … #nzpol

NZ says it will explore “co-operation on critical minerals” with the United States, a day after NZ PM Christopher Luxon brushed off talk of any such co-operation. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Trump #USA #RareMetals #MineralDeals #ShaneJones

Deap sea mining has to stop. Imagine the news if life forms were found on another planet, now redirect that excitement to the discovery of new (to us) life on earth. We do not have the right to snuff out this life for our own endless consumerist greed and we don't need more missiles..

My wife and I were on a beach in the Wellington area and found this at a car park, in the grass. It is approximately the size of a person's hand,made of bone, and intricately carved. I've masked the lower half,as only the legitimate owner will be able to fully describe it. Please share this...(1)

Opposition parties slam 'secret' critical minerals talks

Climate change is not being ignored by insurance companies. Why the hell are people baffled and where is the Government??? #nzpol Second town red-listed by AA Insurance for new home insurance policies www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Fewer than 600 Sumatran #Tigers 🐅🐯 remain wild today 😭 Their number slashed by #palmoil #deforestation and illegal #poaching for body parts. Fight for their survival every time you #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴⛔️ in the shops @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-8QT

When pressed on anything positive they are doing about climate change, the Luxon Govt points to fast tracking renewable generation. But solar farms are moving from concept to construction in less than 12 months WITHOUT USING THE FAST TRACK. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

World’s Most Important Whale Feeding Ground Under Threat Sea Shepherd will return to Antarctica at the start of the new year as escalating industrial fishing pressure threatens what may be the most important whale feeding ground on the planet focusingonwildlife.com/news/worlds-...

Once again, Government acts in the interests of their wealthy and sorted donors, rather than ordinary citizens and a future for life on Earth www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Shane Jones represents a tiny sliver of the electorate but carries veto power over climate policy, a climate he won't be alive to experience. This is outrageous and should be a wake up call for those intending to vote in November, regardless of ones political leanings.

Fact: Climate change is making the weather more extreme. My #cartoon today #NZpol #ClimateChange #Floods #ClimateInaction

Warm air masses in the atmosphere rise upward, causing cooler air from neighboring areas, sometimes from the arctic, to rush in. This is how atmospheric heat powers storms. In other words, global warming causes colder, more intense winter storms. www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxo...

Can we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Right now, the jet stream is bulging far north over the western U.S. while plunging deep south over the east, allowing Arctic air to spill unusually far south. The pattern is becoming more common as the Arctic warms faster than the rest of the planet.

Israeli🇮🇱 aircraft strikes a residential apartment near Al-Abbas Junction west of Gaza City🇵🇸. A woman & 2 children were burned alive, others were injured. At least 12 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours. #WhatCeaseFire @whitehouse-47.bsky.social @jd-vance-1.bsky.social ?

Slane sums it up. Luxon’s lot is leaving us badly exposed.

#StreetArt #urbanphotography Melbourne Australia #Art

Lady Gaga has put out a gorgeous anthem for Minneapolis. youtu.be/e3o5FIXoK84?...

Earth’s satellite networks may be one disruption away from disaster: www.earth.com/news/earths-...

National squandered $6B for climate resilience projects, using it to top up tax cuts for their mates, and now local councils are footing the bill instead 👇🏼

NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut. My story looking at last week’s storms www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

“If they showed [the Melania documentary] on a plane, people would still walk out." - Variety

Is this real? Please tell me this is real

Remember when Shane Jones said our most precious native species can die if it affected his mining donor interests? And now he's pretending he cares abour rockpools. This is what NZ First made legal when they got into power - destroying ecosystems. The video should make everyone weep #nzpol #kiwi

This is what you get NZ when you sign a minerals deal with Trump #nzpol

NOAA speeds up process to grant deep-sea mining permits phys.org/news/2026-01...

What could possibly go wrong.

The present US regime won't keep any "deal" it signs, but instead regards making such a deal as a sign that you are a mark who can be intimidated. Dealing with them is simply stupid and pointless.

What are these little creatures telling us? Time to wake up it seems.

‘Forestry in Tairawhiti is a low-job, high-damage industry that survives by shitting billions of dollars of costs onto communities while exporting profits offshore.’ Forestry is far from the only industry to do this. #nzpol

Piggies can’t keep their fingers out, don’t give a shit about who they hurt. #nzpol

Today on NewstalkZB, Mike Hosking said it's a "reality check" for the Government to not have a proper response for climate hit areas. Some examples of his previous work that may point to how we got here.