In vino veritas: NZ wine proclaims its carbon toll

2010-11-04T23:30:12Z

AUCKLAND (Reuters Life!) - For all the world's environmentally conscious wine drinkers, help is at hand. A New Zealand winery now declares on its label the carbon footprint for each glass you imbibe.

The New Zealand Wine Company on Friday started sales of its Mobius...

Locally grown food is not necessarily greener

2010-11-29T15:40:39Z

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2010-11-03T02:51:18Z

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Make a New Garden Bed with Sheet Mulching

2010-11-03T09:58:46Z

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Ecologically Friendly Fur and Other Green Luxuries

2010-11-03T00:03:47Z

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Earth Friendly, Lighter Footprints on Earth - Cheap Nike Air Max!

2010-09-09T21:44:09Z

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Australia says will not accept commercial whaling plan

2010-04-02T09:16:54Z

Australia has expressed alarm at growing support for a plan to allow limited commercial whaling, saying it could not accept the proposal before the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

New Zealand, which also opposes whaling, is supporting moves to allow restricted commercial hunts ...

World whaling body could collapse if deal fails: NZealand

2010-04-01T09:16:58Z

The international body to control whaling worldwide could collapse if a deal cannot be reached to allow restricted commercial whaling, New Zealand's representative said Thursday.

Former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer, who chairs an International Whaling Commission

Japan coastguard inspects whale boat with arrested activist

2010-03-12T23:15:48Z

The Japan Coast Guard inspected a Japanese whaling ship Saturday with a New Zealand anti-whaling activist who is under arrest for trespassing on the vessel in the Antarctic Ocean last month.

Peter Bethune, a member of the militant New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune, who is under arrest in Japan for trespass, is reported to be well and in good spirits, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Saturday.

Bethune, who has been in custody since he boarded a Japanese harpoon ship in Antarctic wa...

Japan arrests whaling activist for boarding ship

2010-03-12T06:00:33Z

Japan arrests New Zealand anti-whaling activist for illegally boarding Japanese vessel

Japan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese whaling.

Peter Bethune, a member of the New Zealand pleaded with supporters and opponents of whaling to "swallow a dead rat" and accept a controversial compromise when negotiators wrap up talks Thursday in Florida.

Key nations including Australia and Japan, whose relations have been increasingly strained over whaling, have been meeting since Tuesday a...

New rural recycling programme targets

2010-10-22T11:22:29Z

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Carbon neutrality here to stay

2010-10-22T11:05:07Z

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Sustainable steel construction and embodied C0sub2sub assessment

2010-10-22T09:26:47Z

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Sydney first major city to mark Earth Hour 2009

2010-04-16T16:03:33Z

Sydney Opera House bathed in blackness as world begins dimming lights for Earth Hour 2009

The floodlit cream shells of the famed Opera House dimmed Saturday as Sydney became the world's first major city to plunge itself into darkness for the second worldwide Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.<...

NZealand air force to monitor Japanese whalers: defence minister

2010-04-16T14:04:31Z

The New Zealand air force is to track the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctic waters this season, Defence Minister Wayne Mapp announced Sunday.

New Zealand also urged both whalers and anti-whaling protesters to show restraint after a series of clashes on the high seas last year.

The Japanese fleet sets sail in mid-November and the New Zealand says it won't rescue injured whalers or protesters quickly from Antarctica

New Zealand will not be able to quickly rescue anyone who gets lost or hurt if clashes erupt between animal rights activists and Japanese whalers off the north Antarctic coast, the foreign minister said Saturday.

The whaling fleet left Dr. Dennis Dutton poses at a computer in his office at the University of Canterbury. Author, academic and founder of the popular Arts & Letters Daily website Denis Dutton died in New Zealand, Tuesday, Dec, 2010 at the age o...

New Zealand Earthquake

2010-12-26T01:30:09Z

Safety fences are erected around fallen bricks lay on Madras Street in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010 following a series of aftershocks. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Simon Baker) NEW ZEALAND OUT, New Zealand Department of Conservation, DOC officer Phil Bradfield stands next to several dead seals near Kaikoura on New Zealand's South Island. New Zealand police and conservation officials are hunting offenders who clubbed to death ...

New Zealand Mine Explosion

2010-12-01T22:01:24Z

Miners' tables are laid out for their families at a remembrance service for the 29 miners and contractors who lost their lives underground following an explosion on Nov. 19 at the Pike River Coal mine, in Greymouth, New Zealand, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/NZPA, Ross Setford) NEW ZEALAND OUT

New Zealand Greymouth Miners Trapped

2010-11-23T17:32:01Z

A robot sourced from Perth, Australia , is unloaded from an Australian Air Force Hercules at Hokitika airport Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010, to assist in the search of the 29 miners and contractors trapped underground at the Pike River Coal Mine, Greymouth, New Zealand. ...

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