Tag: New Zealand

• 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.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  New Zealand halts new Antarctic vessel development due to budgetary crisis

  

  The Government of New Zealand has halted the Antarctic Patrol Ship Project, citing budgetary shortcomings stemming from expenses incurred in the fight against COVID-19, it was reported.

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 20:20 UTC

  NZ Prime Minister calls off wedding due to sanitary restrictions

  

  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern who has announced her country was moving back to “the red traffic light setting” in a move to curb the spread of the coronavirus Omicron variant, has been forced to postpone her own wedding to comply with the sanitary restrictions.

• Thursday, October 21st 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  UK and New Zealand seal free trade agreement; next step Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

  

  A comprehensive trade agreement with New Zealand will cut red tape for businesses, end tariffs on UK exports and create new opportunities for tech and services companies while making it easier for UK professionals to live and work in New Zealand.

• Monday, September 27th 2021 - 08:22 UTC

  Fonterra divesting from Chile after thirty years operations

  

  New Zealand's dairy group Fonterra, one of the largest in the world has announced it is leaving Chile after thirty years and has put on sale its Chilean branch Soprole of which it controls 99% of the stock.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 07:38 UTC

  Maoris want the official name of New Zealand changed to Aotearoa

  

  The New Zealand Maori party launched a petition on its website to officially change the country's name dot Aotearoa, a longstanding demand from the main indigenous group in the islands state.