Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring. "Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening." @noc.ac.uk youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...

Antarctica isn’t one big tipping point. New research maps 18 separate ice basins, each with its own threshold. Some in West Antarctica may tip at just ~1–2C warming (i.e close to today’s levels). Cross the line, and you commit to m’s of sea-level rise over centuries www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first #kakapo chick for four years hatched two days ago (on Valentine’s Day for those who like to anthropomorphise!). Here’s Tiwhiri-A1-2026 in Yasmine’s nest. 📸: Deidre Vercoe. www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r... #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots #birds

Coral reef ecosystems are in decline and indeed, have been assessed to have passed their Tipping Point. A new study used 7,000 year old fossil evidence to track changes in the food webs of Caribbean reefs. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #climatechange #oceans #coralreefs #ecosystem #tipppingpoint

Many Indigenous peoples, including Māori, don't think of time as linear, but rather as "recurring, spiralling and recalling itself". This approach could help us navigate environmental crises, writes Philip McKibbin theconversation.com/how-indigeno...

Twenty-nine banks have ruled out financing the Papua LNG project in Papua New Guinea over climate and human rights concerns. Project lead TotalEnergies says it will proceed anyway.

Tomorrow, our son will embark on an extraordinary challenge for his 18th birthday. From 4am, he’ll start running towards his ultimate goal of 100km. He hopes to finish well under 10 hours. He’s raising $ for youth mental health. If you’d like to support his cause 👉 www.mycause.com.au/page/385454/...

Righto. I've read the papers released by MBIE on the LNG analysis. This will be a longish thread on my thoughts, which I'll add to progressively. Docs are here. 🧵 1/-

What happens to glaciers in New Zealand (and elsewhere) is up to us @drljv.bsky.social @clicwcrp.bsky.social

Here's a piece about @drljv.bsky.social et al's work on glaciers theconversation.com/nzs-glaciers...

Congrats to @drljv.bsky.social for her award by the International Glaciology Society, presented this morning @clicwcrp.bsky.social

Female #kakapo Kohengi on her three eggs on Pukenui/Anchor Island today. We don't yet know if they're fertile, but will investigate soon. So far fertility on Anchor is very high: only 8 infertile out of 33 checked. We expect many more infertile eggs though. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

Yesterday the Climate Change Minister Simon Watts said "We’ve cut the red tape, fast-tracked new projects... We’ve got a plan, and it’s working. More renewable energy projects have been commissioned in the last 18 months than in the previous 15 years." www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

We’re hiring: Kaimanaaki Pāpāho | Media Advisor role

"How am I supposed to keep writing about, and caring about, climate change and pollution and government capture by Big Oil, when the government is executing people in broad daylight?" @emorwee.bsky.social on how to keep going, despite and because of everything

For your night-time viewing - kākāpo cam is now live, watching the underground nest of 23-year-old Rakiura, who's chosen this same nest under a rātā tree for all seven breeding seasons since 2008 🪺 www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

For reasons, I looked into research in #Greenland recently. Did you know they have a new(ish) national research plan? That they have a new(ish) very capable oceanographic research vessel? That they are beefing up their computing capabilities to handle AI analyses of e.g. marine species? 🧪🇬🇱

Incredible data-viz in this @nature.com story about the Trump administration's demolition of science in the US, tracking losses of grants and a 20% cut in staff at federal science agencies www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

A geotechnical investigation carried out in 2000 found a 0.7-metre layer of debris deposited by earlier landslides and erosion. In other words, the Mount Maunganui campsite sits atop the remnants of past slope failures. By Martin Brook @aucklanduni.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-mount-ma...

The US withdrawal from #WHO became official today, leaving the world less prepared for dangerous disease outbreaks. “When that will bite us in the ass, it’s impossible to predict. But there is a 100% certainty that it will bite us in the ass,” one expert told me. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/u...

We've got a new #kakapo webcam! It's on Rakiura's nest on Whenua Hou. She laid an egg yesterday (we caught that on camera), but isn't incubating it yet. Follow to (hopefully) watch her lay more! #conservation #birds www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

"As countries scramble for strategic footholds, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty’s core principles are being pushed to breaking point. Major powers now treat terrestrial and orbital realms less like global commons and more like strategic assets to control and defend." theconversation.com/trumps-green...

Having grown up during the Communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia, I appreciated the reference to Václav Havel in Mark Carney's Davos speech - here's the essay, the Power of the Powerless www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/the...

A hidden but massive weakening of NZ climate policy is the shift from fuel excise to flat distance-based road-user charges. As Robert McLachlan points out here, it changes the effective carbon cost on petrol vehicles from $450/t to $50/t. That will have a huge impact on purchase decisions. 1/-

Tens of thousands of New Zealanders live with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain. For the first time, and study reveals the cost of these conditions - NZ$22.6 billion per year - with the largest economic toll not for treatment but the inability to work theconversation.com/chronic-pelv...

The world’s first legally binding agreement to safeguard marine life beyond national borders is now international law - my latest for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/veroni...

A busy night of #kakapo breeding on Anchor last night: Gertrude 💚 Ariki JEM 💚 Waihopai Atatu 💚 Kokoto Kohengi 💚 Kotahitanga None on Whenua Hou. Here's JEM on her 2022 nest. #conservation #parrots #birds

Today, the high seas treaty becomes law - the first legally binding ocean governance instrument that covers the international waters outside of any country's national jurisdiction, more than 80 countries have now ratified share.google/JVG19PNv0eNQ...

A reminder that Grog is code - by anthropomorphising it we allow the people who built it and are using it to create abusive imagery to hide 'from their own culpability in the bot’s shadow'. lithub.com/stop-anthrop...

If you're interested, the full @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social report is here climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

Ocean heat content increased by 23 billion trillion joules, which was around 39 times greater than global primary energy use this year. This is the largest rise in OHC since 2017; overall OHC has increased by over 500 zettajoules since the 1940s.

I'm on a long break this summer - feeling lucky to be sailing into the night to spend some time in the top of the south

More #kakapo matings: Heather and Bluster-Murphy on Whenua Hou yesterday morning, and Kuia and Tamahou on Anchor this morning. Here's Kuia on her nest in 2019. She's of Fiordland descent, so has valuable genetics. #conservation #parrots #birds

These tiny critters have shaped the health of our planet for hundreds of millions of years.

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪 IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍

The Guardian doing inexplicable voluntary free public relations work for a corporation profiting from sexual abuse by headlining this as the image gen being "turned off". It isn't off: they've just monetised it. What the fuck are we doing here people, come on. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It's started! The 2026 #kakapo breeding season is under way, with the first nest found on Whenua Hou today. Pearl is on two eggs. #conservation #parrots #birds

Over the holiday period, I finally set up on newsletter publishing platform Ghost to escape Substack for a variety of reasons, but mainly the ongoing presence of white nationalists on the platform. First post will drop next Tuesday and then every second week, or thereabouts.

#kakapo breeding seasons are always roller coasters. ☹️ Young male Tau Kuhurangi has died on Pukenui, likely from a wing injury. Population is now 236. 🙂 Second mating of the year: Esperance (pic) and Ian. #conservation #parrots #birds

Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.

I'm starting to get the emails. Reporters: please see my comments below.

NZ's coalition government has steadily reoriented foreign policy towards Washington, writes international law expert Robert Patman. But the US military operation to capture Maduro has "exposed the very real limitations of that strategy". theconversation.com/as-trump-rew...

We’ve hit a century! 100m of core! Our night-shift crew took us past this milestone – we’re now more than halfway towards our target. Reaching this point is testimony to the skill and hard work of our drillers, who are clocking up long runs and cores of up to 3.1m 👉https://bit.ly/4aHvt5e

This is such sad news. I spent time with Emma in the subantarctic Auckland islands a few years ago; she was a brilliant scientist and passionate communicator, a tireless champion of the ocean theconversation.com/emma-johnsto...

No swim red warning in place from Te Horo, all along the coast to Wellington, and around the Wellington coast and beaches, including all the bays, Seatoun, the city waterfront, Petone, Days Bays etc etc.

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

Drilling a 200m sediment core from the bedrock beneath 500m of Antarctic ice is a complex process, so we've broken it down step-by-step in this explainer. From melting snow in our flubbers through to filling our core barrels, what we're attempting 700km from the nearest base is no mean feat!

If you're out and about, keep an eye out for Aotearoa's many spectacular flowering trees - and then get some cardboard tubes to see the blooms in 3D in this botanical treasure by @theobrominated.bsky.social theconversation.com/most-of-nzs-...