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Ashburton Town Supply Water Sample Nears National Health Limit For Nitrate
Tuesday, 25 November 2025, 8:52 am | Greenpeace
"This sample from Ashburton’s town water supply is dangerously close to the New Zealand Government’s limit for nitrate contamination in drinking water," says Greenpeace freshwater campaigner Will Appelbe. More >>
Darfield Water Supplies Above Nitrate Contamination Reproductive Risk Levels
Monday, 24 November 2025, 8:11 am | Greenpeace
The organisation tested more than 110 water samples and found that the Darfield town water supply was above levels associated with reproductive risk. More >>
Luxon Govt Two Year Anniversary: Greenpeace Releases Updated Timeline Of War On Nature
Sunday, 23 November 2025, 1:10 pm | Greenpeace
The Government has launched a blitzkrieg attack on nature, on behalf of polluting industries and their lobbyists. They are aiming to overwhelm those seeking to defend nature by sheer volume. More >>
Council-Supplied Tank Water In Waimate District At Reproductive Risk Levels
Saturday, 22 November 2025, 6:36 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace’s water testing revealed that the Glenavy town supply - the Lower Waihao scheme - was testing at 6.07mg/L, while the Glenavy council-supplied tank was testing at an average of 5.38mg/L. More >>
Gore Nitrate Testing Results Still Reaching Reproductive Risk Levels
Thursday, 20 November 2025, 5:48 pm | Greenpeace
The organisation found the town supply was at approximately 4.8 mg/L nitrate contamination - approaching the level associated with an increased risk of preterm birth. More >>
New Zealand Sinks Even Further In Global Climate Action Rankings
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 8:28 am | Greenpeace
Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) analysts singled out the erosion of New Zealand’s previously bipartisan climate law, pointing specifically to the decision to weaken methane targets despite clear opposition. More >>
New Zealand "Wins" Unenviable Climate Inaction Award At COP30
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 10:27 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Amanda Larsson says, "It’s embarrassing but it’s sadly not surprising. New Zealand has had a reputation for being clean and green but that image is being sullied by the Luxon government’s bonfire of climate policies. More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes Commitment To Revoke Seabed Mining Licence, Calls For Permanent Ban
Monday, 17 November 2025, 12:08 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is also urging all political parties to go further and commit to a permanent ban on seabed mining, and all new mining on conservation land. More >>
Winston Peters And NZ First Hand Victory To ACT Over Corporate Bill Of Rights
Thursday, 13 November 2025, 5:05 pm | Greenpeace
The new Regulatory Standards Act creates an unprecedented expectation that the Crown compensates corporations if environmental or public interest laws impact their property rights. More >>
Cook Islands Seabed Mining Decision Delayed Following Local Opposition
Thursday, 13 November 2025, 3:41 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa campaigner Juressa Lee is calling the decision "a win for the moana and the Pacific Peoples and communities fighting this emerging threat that will risk their way of life". More >>
Fast-Track Amendment Bill A Savage Escalation In Government’s War On Nature
Thursday, 6 November 2025, 4:32 pm | Greenpeace
The purpose of these amendments is to help profiteering corporations get ecologically reckless projects over the line, like Trans Tasman Resource’s seabed mine off the coast of Taranaki, says Greenpeace campaigner Gen Toop.. More >>
‘Fonterra Milking Us Dry And Selling Us Out’ - Greenpeace
Thursday, 30 October 2025, 12:33 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace spokesperson Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn says, Fonterra’s CEO Miles Hurrell has shown that he views New Zealand as nothing more than a milk powder factory, creating low-value products to ship overseas for use in Mars Bar. More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes Glyphosate Ruling, Urges NZ Food Safety To Restart Food Safety Testing
Thursday, 30 October 2025, 11:44 am | Greenpeace
The government had initially proposed increasing glyphosate residue levels by 100-times. But there was overwhelming opposition to the increase among the more than 3,100 submissions on the proposal. More >>
Following Gore Nitrate Concerns, Greenpeace Announces Free Drinking Water Nitrate Testing In Southland, Canterbury
Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 8:34 am | Greenpeace
A growing body of scientific evidence has linked nitrate contamination in drinking water with several health risks. These include bowel cancer, preterm birth, and at high levels, blue baby syndrome. More >>
Hurricane Melissa Risks Flattening Jamaica: Big Oil Must Be Made To Pay
Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 8:11 am | Greenpeace
Costs from previous hurricanes have reached hundreds of billions of USD. It’s time to make polluters – not ordinary people – pay for this More >>
Pacific Activists Protest Deep Sea Mining As U.S Exploration Vessel Enters Port
Wednesday, 22 October 2025, 11:04 am | Greenpeace
Four activists in kayaks paddled alongside the Nautilus, which has spent the last three weeks on a U.S. funded research expedition surveying mineral nodule fields around the Cook Islands in partnership with the Cook Islands Government. More >>
Two Years On: The Cost Of The Government’s War On Nature
Tuesday, 14 October 2025, 8:19 am | Greenpeace
To mark the two-year anniversary of the election, Greenpeace has released a comprehensive timeline documenting the environmental actions of the Luxon Government. More >>
Luxon "Goes Full Trump" With Climate-denying Methane Backdown - Greenpeace
Sunday, 12 October 2025, 1:14 pm | Greenpeace
At the heart of the move to reduce methane targets is a controversial accounting trick called "no additional warming", designed to justify continued high levels of agricultural methane emissions - even as science shows they must fall fast. More >>
‘Nitrate Emergency Starts Here’: Greenpeace Brings Water Crisis Back To Fonterra’s HQ
Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 12:15 pm | Greenpeace
"The nitrate emergency may be showing up in Canterbury’s taps, but it starts right here in Fonterra’s boardrooms. While rural communities are unable to drink from their taps without fear of getting sick, Miles Hurrell is making millions." More >>
Bottom Trawling A Triple Threat To Marine Environments - New Report
Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 11:25 am | Greenpeace
The Ministry for Environment and Stats NZ report, Tō Tātou Taiao Moana/Our Marine Environment 2025, released today, is a recognition of multiple threats the ocean faces & a "scathing indictment of government failure to protect the marine environment" More >>
