An adult female kākāpō feeding a chick in a nest. Credit: Andrew Digby

#kakapo Esperance with chick Elsie-A2-2026 on Whenua Hou. At a month old the chicks start to get coloured feathers and males will weigh around 1kg - not far off the mother's weight. But she's still less than halfway through raising them in the nest! #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #wildlife

Take-home message at #ESCMIDGlobal2026:

💊 Overprescribing antibiotics costs the EU ~€2.7B annually
💶 Fixing it costs ~€107M
📉 Net savings: €151M–€423M

AMR stewardship isn’t a cost—it’s a high-yield investment.

Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura the kākāpō – 2026 nest YouTube video by Department of Conservation

Have you been watching the #kakapo webcam? After a few power issues it’s back online. I’ll be at the nest in about an hour from now, so tune in then if you’re free! www.youtube.com/live/K_j3aaE...

+1.8°C above the pre-industrial baseline possible by winter! That’s what the North American Multi-model Ensemble (NMME) estimates the global surface temperature anomaly will be by December, due in part to the strong El Niño boost… 1/

New tech allows solar panels to make electricity even from raindrops Researchers in Spain have devised a hybrid device that can generate energy using sunlight as well as raindrops.

Spanish solar panels that convert both rain and sun into electricity ✅

AMOC collapse could turn Southern Ocean into carbon source, adding 0.2°C to global warming A shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could trigger a substantial release of stored ocean carbon into the atmosphere over hundreds of years, according to a new study tha...

"In one scenario at CO₂ concentrations of 450ppm —last experienced by Earth several million years ago, when polar ice was significantly reduced—Antarctic temperatures rise by 6°C while Arctic temperatures drop by 7°C due to #AMOC collapse"

We're now at ~430ppm & rising 🙈

#ClimateEmergency

Former TIME editor Richard Stengel: “He is repeating every foreign and domestic policy mistake the US has made over the last 5 decades, but he’s doing it with a gracelessness, cluelessness, and corruption that has no precedent.”

In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas In March, for the first time, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the transition to clean power. However, rising power demand is complicating the shift away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many aging coal power plants.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

In France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.

World-first study exposes the breadth of bottom trawling's catch - Oceanographic Study reveals that bottom trawling catches more than 3,000 fish species, including critically endangered sharks, rays and seahorses.

oceanographicmagazine.com/news/world-f... the staggering breadth of one of the ocean’s most destructive fishing practices – and researchers warn the true scale may be far worse

This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 per cent in a year and sometimes ...

So great to see renewables plus batteries are collapsing power prices where they are rolled out at scale. The NZ Govt may be trying to reinvent the 1950s, with its love of expensive climate killing fossil fuels, but elsewhere history is moving on. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

Major city cycling levels continue to rise post-pandemic, new study shows

Read more: road.cc/news/major-c...

Christopher Penn wrote: Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

A different perspective.
Always helpful.

PETITION: Solarise NZ to make fossil fuels history We can power our homes, transport and economy with clean energy and end our reliance on dirty fossil fuels.

Oil reserves last for weeks.

Solar panels last for decades.

It’s time that we got serious with solar!

#EnergyRevolution #iran

action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/sol...

The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching.

Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher.

That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).

‘A System Rigged’: Untaxed Wealth of Richest 0.1% Is More Than Assets of World’s Poorest Half | Common Dreams A decade after the Panama Papers, ​the global rich are still hiding more than $3.5 trillion in tax havens. Just a fraction of that money could end extreme hunger and provide clean water to everyone on...

Oxfam: Richest 0.1% hiding more than $2.8 trillion in offshore tax shelters, more wealth than owned by bottom half of humanity. "These findings were published in a report released Thursday by Oxfam International on the 10th anniversary of the Panama Papers..." www.commondreams.org/news/global-...

Copenhagen Cycling Revolution: Lessons for Cities Close to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.”

What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

THIS perfectly describes most of today’s media bias and failure!

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Global sea surface temperatures continue breaking daily records, with Mar. 23 having a preliminary SST of 21.141°C, ahead of the previous daily record of 21.118°C set in 2024.

This graph shows how fast SSTs are rising compared to pre-2023 temperatures.

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth If SpaceX launches one million new satellites, it will increase atmospheric pollution and risk of falling debris. And we will see more satellites than stars.

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
theconversation.com/a-million-ne...

Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat

Some climate change facts:

2015–2025 = hottest decade observed

🌊 ~90% of excess heat stored in the oceans

Heat gain ≈ 18× global energy use

Rate is accelerating, not stabilizing

This isn’t just warming; it’s a system moving further out of equilibrium

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The preliminary global sea-surface temperature for March 22 just set a new daily record at 21.126°C, breaking the previous record set in 2024 towards the end of the 2023-24 El Nino.

2024 and 2026 are the only years on record with SSTs above 21.10°C.

Arctic sea ice volume was at a record daily low on March 21, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

Deputy PM Seymour on fuel prices, cost of living Acting Prime Minister David Seymour talks war, trade and the price of oil

David Seymour: The Government ... first and foremost has to maintain the best possible economic conditions.

Is that really a government's 'first and foremost' job? Is there no duty of care to it's citizenship over and above the economy?
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

‘The sums don’t add up’: UK farmers struggle as Iran war drives up costs Prices of crucial farming inputs such as fuel and fertiliser skyrocketed just before the spring planting season

“About a third of the global seaborne trade in fertilisers passes through the strait of Hormuz”

Time to plant more peas, beans & other nitrogen-fixing legumes, and cut down on excess fertiliser applications - which are also killing rivers & wildflowers:

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

Trying to use less plastic?

Big Oil and the plastics industry are spending billions to make sure everyone else uses more.

“I think what stood out most is the deliberateness and intentionality over the years of pushing plastic into our lives,” said @bethgardiner.bsky.social. “It was such a shock."

Peninsula proudly proclaimed possumless place Possums have had their final termination on the Otago Peninsula. After more than 15 years of hard graft of crawling through bush and dirt and...

• Total of 9200ha covered

• More than 500 volunteers involved

• More than 26,000 possums captured

Bloody epic stuff, this.

No bank balance can filter the air you breathe. No luxury purchase can cool a burning planet. The climate crisis is teaching us a hard lesson: without a healthy Earth, currency is just paper. True wealth is a stable climate, clean water, and thriving ecosystems.

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expec...

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/2518...

You know that feeling when you're struggling to stay awake? #kakapo chicks Tiwhiri-A3 and Tiwhiri-A4 in Tiwhiri's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. Both around two weeks old, and doing well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots