This feels like a blast from the distant past already. Thrilled with how All The Journalists especially my mates at RNZ have taken the climate baton and sprinted with it. Feeling superfluous has never felt so good. HNY!

Eloise Gibson@eloisegibson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

You can listen here to my last audio piece for Morning Report. Heartfelt thanks to Tui Warmenhoven for sharing her story, and the excellent Belinda Storey www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Another year, another record for carbon emissions:

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Head for Another Record in 2025

nytimes.com

BusinessDesk has a fantastic (and rare) for a data journalist in New Zealand. The Herald and BusinessDesk are separate publications, but whoever is in this role will work with me on projects like Budget day visualisations 1/2 careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...

Data Journalist - BusinessDesk - NZME

Join BusinessDesk as a Data Journalist—break market-moving stories, visualise insights, and set the global benchmark for data-driven reporting.

careers.nzme.co.nz

You can listen here to my last audio piece for Morning Report. Heartfelt thanks to Tui Warmenhoven for sharing her story, and the excellent Belinda Storey www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Ageing bridges must be replaced to withstand next big cyclone

Thirty-nine bridges on the state highway network are already older than 100 - by 2030, that number will be 260.

rnz.co.nz

I talked to @eloisegibson.bsky.social about universal Road User Charges. Govt says (a) carbon charge, ETS will sort it; (b) cutting petrol carbon charge from $450/t to $50/t -> negligible effect. They can't both be true, I don't think either of them are true. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

$200 extra to drive a RAV4: Will RUC changes help or hurt the climate?

Universal road user charges are proposed to start in 2027, changing the way drivers of the country's more than 3 million petrol vehicles contribute to the cost of roads.

rnz.co.nz

Completely stoked that this miracle of a snail found Giselle Clarkson, a person who a) would never squish it and b) knew all about left-spirals and c) deeply deserved a Ned in her life.

New Zealand Geographic@nzgeo.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A tiny silly fun thing in the midst of all the chaos... We're on the hunt for a mate for Ned, a 1 in 40,000 left-spiralling snail. www.nzgeo.com/stories/lets...

Well played, my eternal frenemy @marcdaalder.bsky.social The climate reading public is in good hands.

Marc Daalder@marcdaalder.bsky.social · 12mo ago

1. It is a gigantic loss to climate journalism in NZ. You are unrivalled! 2. What a great gain at EECA, so good to have you still in the fight. 3. Can you just have all your pending OIAs forwarded to me? 4. I'll be OIAing everything you do at EECA.

The climate advice they didn't want you to see. [finally, six days before I finish up, I get to use that headline formula 😅] www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Officials warn of damage to diplomatic relations in secret climate change memo

Officials raise concerns on government's climate change stance in mistakenly released advice.

rnz.co.nz

years ago, an outlet used this image (or something very close to it) on an article I wrote on steel decarbonisation, and someone replied "THE FORBIDDEN HALOUMI" and weirdly my brain hasn't let me ever forget it

Nawwww! These kids ❤️❤️💕

Jolisa Gracewood@nzdodo.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Massive news, and mixed feelings I'm sure! Huge thanks for your tenacious, transformative mahi bringing things we needed to know into the light, and your climate reporting especially. This will always and forever be my fave, for so many reasons. Thank you! 🥰 interactives.stuff.co.nz/2022/09/kids...

Some news... I am happy and also sad to let you know I have a new job outside journalism. I finish at RNZ on August 28. It's been an incredible 18 years in journalism - it really can be the best job in the world. The BEST is talking to incredible scientists and researchers, national treasures.

And now the attribution analysis results: climate change strengthened #Erin ’s peak intensity by about 9 mph 📈, resulting in it becoming a Category 5️⃣ storm. If not for human-caused climate change, Erin would have been a Category 4 storm at its peak. www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...

@kirstyjohnston.bsky.social patiently going through the list of climate policies repealed, and what's still standing. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

How Jacinda Ardern’s ‘groundbreaking’ climate law has become ‘a shell’

The Zero Carbon Act promised to lock climate ambition into law. But with key policies repealed, delayed or watered down, the once 'world-leading' legislation has become a husk of its former self.

rnz.co.nz

Mary Argue doing the good mahi for RNZ on science funding cuts....

Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈@sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Here's the thing, we already were amongst the lowest levels of funding for research in the developed world. And these cuts & reprioritisations make this even worse. You can't determine immediate economic implications from a lot, if not most, research. So, these decisions misunderstand science.

Data on the cuts to the Marsden Fund reported by RNZ this morning

A NYT comment: “Humans ate organic, whole foods for millennia. They got plenty of exercise, lived without plastics. Until the mid-1800s, life expectancy at birth was 39. Food may be good medicine, but it’s not a panacea. Medical advances—like vaccines—have doubled the human lifespan, not superfoods”

There’s Money to Be Made From ‘MAHA.’ Food Companies Want In.

nytimes.com

Paywall now lifted: My special report this morning is about how we spent generations strangling our rivers to make room for our homes and farms, only to find we've ended up supercharging their flows. What do we do when we realise we've built a society in a riverbed? newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/13/l...

We strangled our rivers; now they're fighting back

Special report: We forced NZ's braided rivers into tiny channels so we could build our homes and farms in their riverbeds – now we're seeing the consequences. Marc Daalder investigates.

newsroom.co.nz

Agricultural companies never had to pay for their methane emissions in NZ, but they used to be required to report the totals to the EPA. No longer. For some companies, it was the only way to get even a crude estimate. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Three of New Zealand's biggest emitters no longer have to reveal their climate impact

It comes after the government ended compulsory reporting for the farming sector.

rnz.co.nz

"My message to conservatives both in Australia and abroad is when it comes to taking action on climate change, if you do it in an economically rational way there is also a political dividend to be gained." - Australia's Matt Kean,noting NZ's target is "largely static" www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Australia could be about to leapfrog NZ on climate targets

A conservative Australian politician turned climate leader has told New Zealand ministers it is in their interests to do more on climate change.

rnz.co.nz

"Without significantly investing in alternative modes, and then investing the revenue in frequent buses, protected bike lanes, or better train services, this isn't a congestion charge, it's just a tax on those who can't afford it” - Tim Welch www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Why congestion charging might not lower Auckland's air pollution

Congestion charges can lower emissions and travel times by putting cordons around the central city and spending the revenue on public transport, but proposals for Auckland could end up doing neither.

rnz.co.nz

Why congestion charging might not lower Auckland's air pollution

Why congestion charging might not lower Auckland's air pollution

Congestion charges can lower emissions and travel times by putting cordons around the central city and spending the revenue on public transport, but proposals for Auckland could end up doing neither.

rnz.co.nz

Just got a 🧪pitch from a PR claiming to work with Colossal (de-extinction chancers). It was a pre-written article claiming the science sector is carrying out "coordinated attacks" on the co. Spy the headline. They asked if I'd publish it on my Forbes column. Not enough eye rolls on Earth for this 🙄

I feel like there was a book about this kind of thing.

Peter Gleick@petergleick.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The Trump administration has deleted all previous National #Climate Assessments from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next report. Now they say they're going to rewrite the previous ones. This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history. www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...

"The most relevant take home for New Zealand is that the amount of extreme rainfall coming out of these storms will increase in the future and this increase will be dependent on future temperature increases" www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Devastating cyclones to get 20-35 percent wetter with fossil fuel emissions

Researchers have used more precise climate modelling to reveal how fossil fuel emissions could affect cyclone behaviour.

rnz.co.nz

"The most relevant take home for New Zealand is that the amount of extreme rainfall coming out of these storms will increase in the future and this increase will be dependent on future temperature increases" www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Devastating cyclones to get 20-35 percent wetter with fossil fuel emissions

Researchers have used more precise climate modelling to reveal how fossil fuel emissions could affect cyclone behaviour.

rnz.co.nz

There are many ways of destroying the integrity of #science. But one of the most critical is deleting data or failing to collect data or firing the people or destroying the instruments that collect the data that contradicts your preconceived notions. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

npr.org

Seems like a good time to reshare this 2022 piece. Every New Zealander who’s ever had dengue caught it overseas. We have all the ingredients to start our own outbreak – bar one. www.stuff.co.nz/environment/...