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A "one-in-7.4 million" shrinking of Antarctica's sea ice has left scientists alarmed.

Hiringa, with partners fuel supplier Waitomo Group and Australasia’s largest heavy vehicle fleet owner TR Group, on Tuesday opened three green hydrogen stations, with a fourth under way, within the North Island’s economic “golden triangle” of freight movement.

Execution protocol in the US state of Missouri allows for “surgery without anaesthesia” if the typical process of finding a suitable vein to inject the lethal drug doesn’t work, lawyers for a death row inmate say in an appeal aimed at sparing his life....

Incoming Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is now being openly mocked and ridiculed by political commentators for his failure to achieve a coalition government. There are certainly signs that Luxon hasn’t managed the process well, and raising questions about competency at this early stage is a poor start to government....

AT: “We need to get people out of cars!” Also AT: “Let’s remove trains, reduce the number of buses and… (what did we forget to cancel…?) also suspend ferry services!”

A former political party figure charged with indecent assault will keep his name under wraps until his trial next year....

I’m pretty sceptical about ground effect planes, there’s a very good reason why they’ve never really taken off, despite so many countries and organisations giving them a try over the years, but I’d love to know what everyone else thinks.

Who is going to listen?

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$10 billion for one tunnel, or three times what the scrapped ferries were going to cost. And that’s just the initial estimate....

And chief executive Roger Twentyman told the public meeting, “The council has every ability to be involved in the environmental area but, when it comes to moral issues, it doesn’t have the mandate to act on the community’s behalf.”...

Vandalised would be a more accurate description....

This hits really close to home for me....

The Minister of Finance has been heckled by a man who repeatedly shouted “landlords” at her as she hosted a press conference....

Who could have seen that coming!

Seymour is following in Trump’s footsteps in attacking the press. it won’t be long before he uses the phrase “enemy of the people” and “fake news”....

MBFC...

AT going next level. Muppets.

Just moments after Israel Adesanya left an Auckland courtroom yesterday, avoiding a conviction for drink driving after arguing it would cripple his career ,…

How he thought he could stay on after the fractious last couple of years, and disastrous time since sacking Rennie and hiring Eddie is baffling....