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Feb 19, 2026Funding secured
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‘Blood cobalt’ is disappearing from batteries – and cheaper, cleaner batteries are arriving

Canva, Pexels, The Conversation, CC BY-NC You might have heard the common claim that electric cars aren’t really green – that their lithium-ion batteries rely on “blood” minerals such as cobalt, mined in terrible conditi...
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Feb 17, 2026
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What northern NZ’s wet and sticky summer reveals about our warming atmosphere

Dean Purcell/Getty Images New Zealand’s summer has been defined by repeated bursts of intense rain, as subtropical systems have swept down over the upper North Island and beyond. Floods, sli...
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Feb 17, 2026
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The Conversation - Environment
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How Bad Bunny’s power pole dance spotlighted the colonial legacy of energy poverty

When Bad Bunny and his dancers scaled power poles during his Super Bowl performance, he wasn’t just entertaining millions. He was spotlighting how Puerto Rico’s chronic power outages are a l...
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Feb 16, 2026
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The Conversation - Environment
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Beyond the beaches, Wellington’s catastrophic sewage spill could be bad news for coastal ecosystems

Matteo Collina, CC BY-NC-ND Public concern over the total failure of the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant on Wellington’s south coast has been growing, despite this week’s announcement o...
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Feb 16, 2026
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Want to boost uptake of battery EVs? Subsidise chargers at home and work – not the vehicles

Cavan Images/Getty Let’s say you want to encourage more drivers to shift to battery-electric vehicles. What’s the best way to do it? Globally, billions have been poured into incentives to encourage drivers to switch. The most popular approaches are rebates to cut the purchase cost and schemes to f...
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Feb 15, 2026
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Trump has scrapped the long-standing legal basis for tackling climate emissions

Regulating climate emissions just became more difficult. US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has repealed its own 2009 legal finding tha...
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Feb 12, 2026
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Feb 12, 2026
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Novel paint could aid drought-hit regions

Researchers in Australia have developed a dual-purpose paint that tackles rising heat and water scarcity in one stroke The post Novel paint could aid drought-hit regions appeared first on Positive News.
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Feb 12, 2026
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The Conversation - Environment
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That e-bike you bought your teen might be an illegal electric motorbike – and the risks are real

A “health emergency”. A “total menace”. “Take them away and crush them”. E-bikes are in the news for all the wrong reasons. A spate of deaths and injuries linked to e-bike crashes have led...
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Feb 11, 2026
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How Indigenous ideas about non-linear time can help us navigate ecological crises

Noel Nesme/Pexels, CC BY It is common to think of time as moving in only one direction – from point A, through point B, to point C. However, many Indigenous peoples – including Māori, the I...
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Feb 11, 2026
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The shifting reality of knife crime in the UK

Despite the ‘broken Britain’ headlines, violent crime is falling – including knife crime. We meet the people helping to make the streets safer The post The shifting reality of knife crime in the UK appeared first on Positive News.
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Feb 10, 2026
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Importing gas locks NZ into fossil fuels for longer – just as clean energy surges

Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images The government’s announcement this week that it would move ahead with plans for a new facility to import liquefied natural gas (LNG), potentially as early as nex...
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Feb 10, 2026
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The Conversation - Environment
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If fracking begins in the Kimberley, it could damage a sacred river

Under the soils of the Kimberley lies one of the world’s last undeveloped large-scale reservoirs of onshore gas, according to the gas company hoping to extract it. Last month, the Western...
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Feb 9, 2026
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The Conversation - Environment
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Australia can’t reach its ambitious climate targets with current policies. Here are 6 things we can try

Ludvig Hedenborg/Pexels, CC BY-NC-ND In less than ten years, Australia has to cut its emissions 62–75% below 2005 levels. Given reductions in emissions over the past 20 years, that translates to cutting emissions 47–65% below current levels. As of last year, that’s about 440 million tonnes (Mt) of c...
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Feb 8, 2026
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The Conversation - Environment
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Landslides are NZ’s deadliest natural hazard. Why does it still tolerate the risk?

New Zealand Herald/Dean Purcell/Getty Images The recent deaths of eight people in two New Zealand landslides has left the public searching for answers. Some questions will be technical, abou...
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Feb 8, 2026
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Big bills, ‘fur babies’ and administering a good death: reflecting on ethics in veterinary medicine

Mikhail Nilov/Pexels Vets are regularly accused of various failures: overcharging clients, neglecting patient care, and rushing pets and owners through appointments. Criticism can also come...
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Feb 5, 2026
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If Australia and Indonesia agreed to end new thermal coal mines, it could drive the green transition.

In the 1960s, major oil-producing nations formed a cartel to drive up the price of oil. It worked. For decades, nations in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have a...
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Feb 5, 2026
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Can a bird be an illegal immigrant? How the White Australia era influenced attitudes to the bulbul

The Conversation, CC BY-NC-SA In early January, authorities from South Australia’s Department of Primary Industries took to the streets of Adelaide on the hunt for a suspicious individual. T...
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