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Kiwi road sign. Photo used with permission. All the original photos and videos were taken by Heather Milton or the author during their 2024 travels. Our recent six-week trip to Aotearoa/New Zealand in late summer and early autumn 2024 presented the ideal opportunity to experience its amazing environment. We hadn't “crossed the ditch” (the Australasian slang for the Tasman Sea) for a holiday since 1985. The Land of the Long White Cloud was created by volcanoes and carved by glaciers. Before the arrival of humans, its flora and fauna evolved in isolation from the rest of the world, and there wer...
Global Voices
New Zealand's government has said it will ban disposable e-cigarettes, or vapes, and raise fines for people who sell these types of products to minors. It comes less than a month after New Zealand repealed a law from the previous left-leaning government to phase out tobacco smoking. That law would have required reduced nicotine levels and placed a lifetime ban on cigarettes for anyone born after 2008. UK announces single-use vape ban. Which other countries are cracking down on vaping?New Zealand’s Associate Health Minister Casey Costello said on Wednesday that e-cigarettes remain "a key smokin...
Euronews (English)
As officials investigate what caused a “strong shake” before a sudden plunge on a plane traveling between Australia and New Zealand, a passenger on Tuesday described a wild ride, with people without seatbelts thrown from their seats and some crashing into the plane's ceiling. At least 50 people were injured on Monday by what LATAM Airlines described as a “strong movement” on the Chilean plane traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner later landed at Auckland Airport as scheduled and was due to continue on to Santiago, Chile. “The plane, unannounced, just dropp...
Euronews (English)
New Zealand’s government announced on Feb. 22 that it would provide Ukraine with another defense and humanitarian aid package worth almost $26 million. This package brings the total value of New Zealand’s assistance pledged to Ukraine in the past two years to over $100 million. A large chunk of the money will be used to finance an extension of New Zealand’s training program for Ukrainian soldiers until 2025, the country’s government wrote in a press release. As part of the package, New Zealand will send $6.5 million to a U.K.-administered fund to procure weapons and ammunition for Ukraine. The...
Kyiv Independent
New Zealand’s government announced on Feb. 22 that it would provide Ukraine with another defense and humanitarian aid package worth almost $26 million. This package brings the total value of New Zealand’s assistance pledged to Ukraine in the past two years to over $100 million. A large chunk of the money will be used to finance an extension of New Zealand’s training program for Ukrainian soldiers until 2025, the country’s government wrote in a press release. As part of the package, New Zealand will send $6.5 million to a U.K.-administered fund to procure weapons and ammunition for Ukraine. The...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
New Zealand’s government announced on Feb. 22 that it would provide Ukraine with another defense and humanitarian aid package worth almost $26 million. This package brings the total value of New Zealand’s assistance pledged to Ukraine in the past two years to over $100 million. A large chunk of the money will be used to finance an extension of New Zealand’s training program for Ukrainian soldiers until 2025, the country’s government wrote in a press release. As part of the package, New Zealand will send $6.5 million to a U.K.-administered fund to procure weapons and ammunition for Ukraine. The...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
By Hazel Gandhi Jay Shah, the Honorary Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) recently claimed that the US Open, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), and the International Cricket Council (ICC) followed BCCI's steps to introduce pay parity for men and women players. BOOM found that while the ECB and ICC introduced equal pay after BCCI, the US Open has been doing it for decades and celebrated 50 years of pay parity in 2023. Furthermore, while India's women cricketers are paid the same match fees as the men’s team, their retainers are only a fraction of those paid to...
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A climber who fell 2,000 feet down from Mount Taranaki, one of New Zealand’s most dangerous mountains, was “exceptionally lucky” to survive. The man was part of a group of climbers who were approaching Mount Taranaki’s summit. The man fell by losing his footing and slipping. He lost his ice axe and crampons during the fall. Senior Constable Vaughan Smith credits the climate with saving the unidentified man. “Thanks to recent spring weather, the ice had softened, and the snow caught the climber’s fall. He is exceptionally lucky to be alive. These are challenging areas and when things go wrong t...
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By Srijit Das Several old, unrelated videos of earthquakes and its aftermath are being shared on social media platforms with a false claim that the visuals show recent scenes from New Zealand's Kermadec Islands after the region encountered multiple earthquakes in the past few days. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) on March 16 reported that the Kermadec Islands region faced a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on the Richter scale. The National Emergency Management Agency, however in a tweet, clarified the reports of Tsunami warnings to the country and denied its possibility mention...
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By The Conversation Kevin Trenberth, University of Auckland New Zealand, where agriculture is one of the largest contributors to climate change, is proposing a tax on cow burps. The reason seems simple enough: Cows release methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and New Zealand has a goal of reaching net-zero emissions by midcentury. Right now, the country’s effects on climate change come roughly equally from carbon dioxide and methane. Worldwide, 150 governments have committed to cut methane emissions, both from agriculture and by cracking down on the largest source – fugitive leaks from natural ga...
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