Environment
Beginners’ guide to climate change research
Overcoming a specific form of writer’s block, Nicola Dennis sorts through the nuts and bolts of human awareness of climate change.
Decision time for farmers
Farmers need to tune in fast to pricing proposals for agricultural emissions, writes Joanna Grigg.
He Waka could be a stop-gap
In the first of a series Country-Wide investigates the Primary Sector Climate Action Partnership’s (He Waka Eke Noa) proposed greenhouse gas emissions pricing options. Terry Brosnahan reports.
Only one side of the story
Calls for New Zealand farmers to follow the example proposed for the Netherlands fail to acknowledge reality, Jacqueline Rowarth writes.
Carbon forestry spreading
An update of sales of pastoral land has sparked fresh concern about the increase in that bought for carbon forestry as well as movement into better-quality land and more areas of the country.
Realities of sheep and cattle farming
With its large cattle and sheep populations, a country like New Zealand is dealing with waste from not five million but the equivalent of more than 100m humans. By Ken Geenty.
Cheaper by the thousands
Life-long tree grower Peter Arthur offers advice on tree selection, costs and care.