Tag: New Zealand

• Wednesday, February 1st 2023 - 10:11 UTC

  More rain ahead as cruise ship visits to New Zealand disrupted

  

  SeaTrade is reporting that ID New Zealand’s ground operator Debbie Summers said cruise lines are changing itineraries to ports not affected by the unprecedented weather.

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 09:38 UTC

  NZ Prime Minister Ardern stepping down shortly

  

  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Thursday announced that she would be leaving her post no later than February 7, while the Labor Party is to choose a new leader in three days. Ardern came to power in 2017 with a coalition government and then led her center-left party to a sweeping victory in the 2020 elections, but her popularity and that of her party have fallen in recent polls.

• Friday, October 14th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Controversy among NZ farmers with the proposed methane gas tax

  

  The New Zealand government has anticipated a controversial farm that would tax greenhouse gases from animals with the purpose of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Allegedly it would be a first in the world and farmers should be able to recover the expense by raising the price of items that are environmentally friendly.

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Ardern believes NZ will become a republic in her lifetime

  

  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hinted Sunday in London while attending Queen Elizabeth's funeral that her country might become a republic.

• Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 09:03 UTC

  Kiwi lawmakers want country's name changed to Aotearoa

  

  A group of New Zealand lawmakers mooted for the country to be renamed Aotearoa, which would much better reflect its Maori ancestry, and the Wall Street Journal has picked up on their bid this week.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  New Zealand korora penguins dying because of climate change with food more difficult to reach

  

  Small bodies of hundreds of penguins have washed ashore on the northernmost coasts of New Zealand, and although their deaths were at first a mystery, researchers now think they understand why the kororā, or little blue penguins are dying.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 10:02 UTC

  Unknown ecosystem found beneath Antarctica's ice

  

  Scientists from New Zealand have found an ecosystem 500 meters deep hundreds of kilometers from the edge of the Ross Sea ice shelf in Antarctica, which is inhabited by shrimp-like animals, it was reported.

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 20:30 UTC

  NZ plans to tax breeders for livestock belches

  

  The Government of New Zealand has disclosed a plan to collect a tax on cow and sheep burps from livestock production which would become the first in the world to make producers pay for their animals' emissions.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2022 - 20:00 UTC

  Climate change has NZ sinking - floods to become routine events

  

  Climate change is taking its toll as the sea keeps crawling onto New Zealand's sinking coastline, halving the time authorities thought they had to take action, according to an NZ SeaRise study released earlier this week.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  LATAM resumes flights to Auckland and Sydney

  

  LATAM Airlines has resumed services to Auckland and Sydney following a 24-month interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chilean carrier serves the route from Santiago's Arturo Merino Benítez international airport using Boeing 787-900 aircraft three times a week.