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The press box - April
In case you missed it, here are some snippets of environmental news from the last month.
Legislation/Politics
Irrigators are Canterbury's biggest rule-breakers
Hawke's Bay Regional Council approves $35 million dam water use scheme
Submissions split on Blueskin windfarm consent application
Regional landfill joint plan – [Nelson CC and Tasman DC]
Government will defend legal challenge to Kermadec sanctuary proposal
Commissioner Dr Jan Wright says proposed RMA changes too broad
RMA reviews a "potential policy train wreck"
Home truths: Arguing the case for urban sprawl
Can commissioners to run as councillors?
Conservation/Ecology
Penguin swims 8000km for pensioner
Rare blue whale footage captured in NZ
Fresh approach helps fresh water fish
NZ southern right whale population crashed from around to 30,000 to ust 110
Photos: Underwater through a lens
Why ugly parasites also need saving
DoC prepares for rodent "plague" following beech mast year
Okiwi Bay residents oppose fish research facility
Australia frogs 'could be wiped out by killer fungus'
India may relocate tigers to Cambodia to grow global population
Plans to get rid of rats, stoats and possums in Picton within a year
Just 7% of Australia's Great Barrier Reef escapes bleaching
Water
Whanganui may continue pumping sewage out to sea
Christchurch's streams are dying city-wide
Christchurch's vanishing streams worry residents
Low rainfall and wilding pines caused Twizel's Lake Wardell to disappear
Bureaucracy, not weather, behind the case of disappearing Lake Wardell
Waikato River catchment gets low water quality rating
Tourism and EDS call for five-year ban on irrigation funding
Hutt flood scheme bill to cost millions more
Regenerate Christchurch to consider red zone water course
Anne Salmond: Water is too valuable to squander
Consent Hearings/Developments
SkyPath opponents reach deadline
First look at Auckland's transport plan
Environment Canterbury boosts inner city workforce in new $51 million building
Climate Change
Climate scientists' global warning
Sixty world leaders to attend UN climate signing in New York on April 22
More moose on the loose in a warmer Alaska
Climate change: Why you should worry
Climate change 'biggest threat to health' - so what is the Government doing?
Earth's temperature just shattered the thermometer
Climate pioneer warns sea level could rise 9m
Leonardo Dicaprio delivers rousing speech as leaders sign historic climate deal
Polar bears forced to swim for days for food
No rush to sign on the dotted line of climate accord
Air quality
'Dodgy diesel' threatens EU green fuel market
Te Mata Mushroom Company fined for odour
VW reaches US deal in emissions scandal
Mitsubishi Motors office raided over fuel economy tests
Peugeot raided by French emissions investigators
UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fall
Contamination
Other
Volcano hiding explosive secret
Marlborough District Council's state of the environment report issued
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