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There can be no doubt that driving at excessive or inappropriate speed is really dangerous. Speeding is one of the biggest risk factors on the road, second only to distracted driving and alcohol. The three factors that make driving at high speeds so dangerous are: firstly, that the distance at which we are able to

Prices of rice, a major staple for Asia, have soared over the past months due to floods, heat waves and other extreme weather conditions affecting the

The South Island iwi is being adversly affected by flooding risk.

Wet weather across the NI and some of the SI in a strong, cold, unstable southwest flow.

Auckland will catch the edge of the "atmospheric river" causing havoc on the East Coast.

Auckland is in the firing line for more wet weather this week

One of Contact Energy's peakers will be out of action until 2025.

In this paper, we consider climate change as a systemic respiratory crisis, and explore how breath can function as a mode of witnessing climate catastrophe. We build on feminist environmental humanities methodologies of embodied attunement to advance a more-than-human witnessing of climate change. We suggest that a feminist “conspiratorial” witnessing of breath(lessness) can afford an embodied, situated, empathetic and systemic mode of witnessing. In this approach, the witness (e.g., “the ...

Summer heat may affect potency of stored medicine

New York Times: We have good news and a little advice for smoothie lovers.