Soaring summer temperatures in Europe and Central Asia are killing nearly 400 children a year according to new analysis of the latest available data by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released on Wednesday.
Progress fighting global hunger has been set back 15 years, leaving around 733 million people going hungry in 2023, equivalent to one in 11 people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest UN State of Food Security and Nutrition in the ...
News from NZTA Waka Kotahi New technology is to improve the monitoring and management of State Highway 1 Te Aranui o Te Rangihaeata/Transmission Gully motorway. The traffic monitoring equipment is to be added to the overhead gantry at Mackays Crossing. It will collect travel data and help Transport Operations Centre teams manage this stretch of […]
News from PSA New Zealand’s challenges of safeguarding our environment and combatting climate change will get harder with the Ministry for the Environment confirming plans to cut its workforce by over a quarter in coming years. Final decisions were announced to staff today in response to the Government spending cuts. It plans to reduce its […]
Report from LDR More than $25 million is to be spent across South Wairarapa’s water network this financial year. Although more money is needed to bring the district’s wastewater infrastructure into compliance, its water treatment plants are now all compliant as of this month. The district’s water has been safe to drink but it is […]
The final report on the abuse and neglect of children, young people and adults in the care of the State and faith-based institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand between 1950 and 1999 is here. I’ve not yet read the whole thing, but I will. The history they reveal is a blight on New Zealand. Just a […]
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The extensive neoliberal restructuring bankrolled by IMF-World Bank loans deepened the export-oriented and import-dependent character of food and agricultural production in many backward economies that severely destroyed their food security, rural livelihoods, ...
July 23, 2024 The Yukon 1000: Race Report from Team Avaya - Nathan Fa'avae and Sophie Hart In July 2024, Sophie Hart and I traveled to Whitehorse, Canada, for the Yukon 1000 paddle race, claimed to be the longest and toughest paddle race in the world. ...
The International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) denounces the arrest and detention of anti-dam activists Ebo Mili and Dunge Apang last July 8, 2024 by the Arunachal Pradesh Police. Ebo Mili, human rights lawyer ...
350.org Pacific launches Our Pawa campaign, spotlighting Australian climate commitments and the Pacific energy transition.
During the whole month of July and August, the non-for-profit is running a winter raffle to raise funds that will help them empower young people with disabilities through music and performance.
DON’T DEEP IT: a new series of work by Aj Fata for the Te Tuhi Billboards reflects on the pressure artists feel to produce profound, deep artworks.
Smith is a multiple New Zealand amateur boxing champion and recently won her first professional boxing fight when she became the first New Zealand Cruiserweight female professional champion against Sequita Hemingway in May.
Emergency services are responding to a collision involving a motorcycle and a car on Pembroke Street, Highbury in Palmerston North. The collision was reported around 5:50pm. The road is expected to be closed for some time and motorists are advised ...
More retailers are worried they will have to shut up shop if tough economic conditions continue.
Les Elder has revealed her personal struggles after being ousted from the captaincy and being ignored during the team's Rugby World Cup celebrations.
Residents on the North Shore have rallied behind a poster searching for a troublesome fowl.
A majority of our MPs, and listed chief executives are now Gen X. How has this generational coup changed the country?
Women continue to fight for justice, 70 years after the first nuclear tests by the US caused devastation on the people and environment of the Marshall Islands, Netani Rika writes.
Nearly 200 Kiwi athletes are in Paris competing at the pinnacle of their sport. What about the hundreds more who are staying home?
Homes in high-risk flood areas are copping hundreds and even thousands of dollars in extra premiums as insurers start to factor in individual addresses, new data shows.
The report found abuse was rife in state and faith-based care settings and the state failed to respond to signs of systemic abuse and neglect.
By reestablishing these kūtai reefs we are taking solid and decisive action to reverse the human impacts on the Gulf, and give our wai a fighting chance to ensure it is stable enough to support us now and into the future.
We call on all who identify as Anglican; whether churches, schools or agencies to study this report and its recommendations and to commit themselves to the principles and practices that ensure the highest standards of pastoral care.
The PSA urges the Government to think again and pause this restructure. If it really wants to deliver better health services to New Zealanders, then give the health system the funds it needs to do the job.