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Fast-track consenting
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Fast-track listed projects
- Matawii water storage reservoir
- Te Ara Tupua - Ngauranga to Petone shared path
- Papakura to Pukekōhe rail electrification
- Papakāinga development, Kaitaia
- Papakāinga Development, Rāpaki, Christchurch
- Waitohi Picton Ferry Precinct redevelopment
- Papakura to Drury South State Highway 1 improvements – Stage 1B1
- Queenstown arterials project
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Fast-track referred projects
- Silverlight Studios Wanaka
- Northbrook Wanaka Retirement Village
- Molesworth Street Office Development
- Dominion Road mixed use development
- Ohinewai Foam Factory
- The Vines Affordable Subdivision
- Kohimarama Comprehensive Care Retirement Village
- Brickfields Scott Road development
- Nola Estate
- Kapuni Green Hydrogen Project
- New Dunedin Hospital - Whakatuputupu
- Wooing Tree Estate
- Faringdon South West and South East development
- Kōpū Marine Precinct
- Rangitane Maritime Development (suspended)
- Beachlands Housing Development (suspended)
- Ōmāhu Residential Development
- Drury Central and Paerata Stations
- Melia Place
- Silverlight Studios accommodation
- Waihoehoe Precinct
- Drury East Stage 1 Precinct
- Drury Centre Precinct
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Safer homes, healthier environment
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- Caution notice: warning over banned mothballs
- Glyphosate statement
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- Potting mix can pose risk to human health
- Safe use of products to kill fleas, flies and other insects
- Stay safe while preparing tank mixes
- Is your boat paint legal to import and manufacture?
- Chlorothalonil use banned outside of the workplace
- Microbeads ban: is your product affected?
- How to dispose of fire-fighting foams containing PFOS
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Science Corner
- How safe is “natural”? Taking a look at four plant-based pesticides from nature’s arsenal
- What we can learn from mesocosms – and how to create your own little world
- The spike protein and the Pfizer vaccine
- I now pronounce you denewed
- The fate of chemicals in the environment
- Weighing up the risks
- The waggling wisdom of bees
- Riparian planting and the effect of chemicals on waterways
- Life in plastic (not so fantastic)
- The art of presenting complex spatial data simply
- Sourdough Ecosystems – parallels between a sourdough starter, or rēwena/rēwana, and our environment
- Zoonoses, COVID-19, and the EPA - what's the connection?
- Islands and isolation
- We all thrive when women and gender minorities work in science
- From carp to chemical fate–the cascading effects of invasive fish species in our waterways
- Mātauranga Māori: Applying a Māori lens to environmental management
- Rockpools, punk science and student strikes
- Varroa mite chews the fat
- Chemistry in the clouds - developing New Zealand's first Earth System Model
- Older articles
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Wai Tūwhera o te Taiao
- About the programme
- What is environmental DNA
- How to collect and analyse eDNA
- Explore the Wai Tuwhera o te Taiao map
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Community feature stories
- Learn more about puene
- Kids restore the Kepler, and discover a rare species in the process
- Critter of the Month - June / Pipiri
- Ngā Kaimanaaki o te Waimapihi / Polhill Protectors focus on stream health
- “Dead muddy ditch” is in fact teeming with life
- July critter
- Te Whenua Tōmuri Trust trains kaitiaki in eDNA sampling
- Critter of the month – October/Whiringa-ā-nuku
- Residents band together for a Wellington Stream
- December critter: mānuka moth
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