From the Amazon to Aotearoa: Māori rangatahi on the frontlines of Cop30Inside Cop30 with the first iwi-mandated Māori delegation.By Shannon MihaereGuest writer & Waimārama Hawke | 28th November, 2025Guest writer
A single light on the mahau: On the parallel worlds of climate change storytellingThe skills, way of life and collective mentality that the climate crisis is forcing upon us are those that tūpuna Māori always had.By Nadine Hura | 30th January, 2024Contributing writer
Five climate lessons from Māori communities (that are guaranteed not to depress you)Lesson 1: Hope is shaped like a shovel and will give you blisters.By Nadine Hura | 23rd January, 2024Contributing writer
Māori climate startup secures multimillion-dollar investment at Cop28A potentially game-changing initiative from Aotearoa has just received a US$50m investment in Dubai.By Laura Gemmell | 13th December, 2023Guest writer
OpinionOnce were maunga: What’s crushed when roads are builtDad still remembers how the earth used to shake with every blast at the quarry. He could feel the ground trembling and shivering through his boots.By Nadine Hura | 12th December, 2023Contributing writer
A rangatahi Māori perspective on Cop28It's more crucial than ever that young indigenous people get along to events like Cop, says Kaeden Watts. By Tommy de Silva | 8th December, 2023Guest writer
If New Zealanders won’t listen to Māori, maybe they’ll listen to Prince HarryCringe value aside, In the context of continuing attacks on mātauranga Māori, Prince Harry's video almost felt like progress. By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes | 19th May, 2022Contributing writer
Riding the tide homeAs sea walls are chewed up and spat out like loose teeth, coastal property owners are scrambling to sell. All the while, Māori are packing up their cars and driving headlong into the eye of it.By Nadine Hura | 11th May, 2022Contributing writer
The ocean that binds us: How indigenous collaboration is helping to protect the moanaThousands of years of indigenous knowledge can help rebuild our marine environments – and one Ngāti Porou wahine is leading the way. By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes | 28th April, 2022Contributing writer
OpinionBeing an Indigenous woman at Cop26Amplifying our voices in spaces made to keep us quiet.By Taylor Jo Aumua | 1st December, 2021Guest writer
Te taiao under threat: Indigenous voices speak up on climate changeClimate change has already irreversibly changed the maramataka, the Māori lunar calendar.By Leonie Hayden | 3rd November, 2021Contributing writer
The day is new, but this road is oldHow can we talk about solving this sickness if we don’t acknowledge its fundamental causes? We are unwell because Papatūānuku is unwell. By Nadine Hura | 30th May, 2021Contributing writer
On the waka to carbon zero: Where have we come from, and where are we going?For Māori, if our whenua drowns, we drown.By Nadine Hura | 1st March, 2021Contributing writer
One great lesson from this absolutely awful yearBy José Barbosa | 18th December, 2020Senior Content Creator
Give power to Māori and marginalised communities and we’ll get through the climate emergencyToday, our parliament will declare a climate emergency. Three young climate leaders say it’s a grim marker of the scale of human-caused planetary collapse, but we need to ensure the government does not sacrifice the important for the urgent. By Áine Kelly-Costello, Kaeden Watts & Adam Currie | 2nd December, 2020Guest writer
How to centre indigenous people in climate conversationsWe need to amplify indigenous voices around the climate emergency, but what does that mean in practice? By Nadine Hura | 1st November, 2019Contributing writer
It’s not just Greta: the Nobel Peace Prize belongs to indigenous climate activistsAdam Currie questions why the public are so keen to hear the Swedish teen's message over the indigenous youth who raised their voices long before Greta.By Adam Currie | 11th October, 2019Guest writer
‘We are the victims but we are also the solution’: Indigenous climate activist Hindou Oumarou IbrahimShe was recently named by Time as one of the 15 women leading the fight against climate change. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim tells Kera Sherwood-O'Regan about the effects of the changing climate on her village growing up in Chad, especially on women and girls, and what spurred her to action.By Kera Sherwood-O’Regan | 27th September, 2019Guest writer
Step up for Tāmaki: Rangatahi are ready to take action on climateA new web series challenges the false idea that rangatahi Māori “aren’t engaged” in politics or civic participation, and presents what aims to be a more hopeful and inclusive alternative. By Kera Sherwood-O’Regan | 19th September, 2019Guest writer
Breakfast with the Secretary General: Māori activists press the UN on climate changeThe United Nations Secretary General has given a nod to indigenous rangatahi in their fight for climate justice.By Kera Sherwood-O’Regan | 14th May, 2019Guest writer