Editorial

The Deep Stream fire was more than an inconvenience to Dunedin residents asked to conserve water: it was a dreadful reminder of what our region can expect as our climate changes.

On December 24, 1968, astronaut William Anders aboard the Apollo 8 reconnaissance mission took what has been called arguably the greatest environmental photograph of the Earth.

It was an unfortunate juxtaposition.

OK boomer. A harmless throwaway line, typically flippant millennial behaviour, the usual nonsense from a politician, or a worrying indication of a growing gap between the generations?

It  is called the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act and more popularly known as the Zero Carbon Act. But it could also have been called the Last Chance Act or the Eleventh...

The thousands of people who supported the campaign to save Foulden Maar will be encouraged at the Dunedin City Council's moves to ensure the site is protected.

It would not be too cynical to think sending a ''closure team'' to the Tiwai Point aluminum smelter may eventually form part of a plan to extract concessions to help the bottom line of the smelter...

It is easy to understand the appeal of fireworks.

There is increasing concern about the level of methamphetamine use in our rural communities as the drug becomes cheaper and apparently more readily available.