Chris Bishop says he's open to taking final decision-making powers on fast-track applications off of ministers – but he'll have to get it past Shane Jones and NZ First who argued behind-the-scenes for those powers to rest with ministers in the first place.
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A rapid shift in ocean currents could imperil the world’s largest ice shelf –– the Ross Ice Shelf.

sciencenews.org/article/ocean-…

SWAIS2C aims to discover whether the Ross Ice Shelf did melt when Earth was this warm in the past.

#Antarctica #HowMuchHowFast

This is stunning, and not in a good way:

Deadly floods in hyper-arid Dubai & Oman made more intense by climate change, El Nino and rapid urbanisation - new World Weather Attribution study
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Is NZ bringing in 'Indonesian coal every month to keep the lights on'? Short answer, NO - but read this analysis by Eloise Gibson rnz.co.nz/news/environme…

NEW TODAY in nature - A vast DNA tree of life brings open access DNA sequences of >9500 flowering plants! 🧬

This invaluable resource crafted by 279 scientists lets us answer key questions about modern plant life and look back in time to its origins 🌿

nature.com/articles/s4158…

What on earth are we doing?

Education Ministry cuts: Roles providing support for disabled kids among those being axed rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Ocean cooling reversed Holocene retreat of the West #Antarctic Ice Sheet - new paper from Dan Lowry GNS Science Te Pū Ao, Holly Han , Dr. Natalya Gomez , Katelyn Johnson, rob mckay and myself.
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SWAIS2C SCAR_PAIS Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Some 7K years ago, #Antarctica 's West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated and then advanced again (within last 2K years). This new study led by GNS Science Te Pū Ao shows how this happened and what it means for future sea-level rise AntarcticaNewZealand SWAIS2C theconversation.com/west-antarctic…

Loving the cover design of the Copernicus ECMWF European State of the Climate report.

Flower petals showing European annual temperatures since 1980.

Designed by Dr Anna Lombardi.

The report highlights how extreme the climate of 2023 was for Europe: climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2023

Awesome achievement.

Mataaho Collective scoops Golden Lion at Venice Biennale in a huge weekend for art from Oceania rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

US has vetoed a UN Security Council Resolution which would have given the State of #Palestine 🇵🇸 full membership of the United Nations 🇺🇳. No other country on the 15-member Council voted against. What on earth will it take for the US to move on this? aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/18…

Lethal levels of heat exposure are killing corals along 80% of the length of the Great Barrier Reef, and we have never seen anything like that.

The Fast-track Approvals Bill poses significant risks to the environment and will achieve sub-optimal decision-making, poor allocation of resources and increased litigation risk if it proceeds as proposed. Read the PCE’s submission on the Bill here: bit.ly/pcefasttrack

Today is the last day to make a submission on the government's fast-track approvals bill. As Margaret Stanley writes, there are many reasons to object, not least because we know that, once destroyed, ecosystems can not be restored theconversation.com/5-reasons-why-…