Climate: Explained

Featured image: Regenerative farming can help grow food with less impact

Regenerative farming can help grow food with less impact

Guest Author • Sep 11, 2019

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I would like to know to what extent regenerative agriculture practices could play a role in reducing carbon … Read More

Featured image: Why your backyard lawn doesn’t help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

Why your backyard lawn doesn’t help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

Guest Author • Sep 04, 2019

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I read somewhere that 1,000 square metres of grass absorbs the same amount of carbon dioxide that one … Read More

Featured image: How emissions trading schemes work and they can help us shift to a zero carbon future

How emissions trading schemes work and they can help us shift to a zero carbon future

Guest Author • Aug 28, 2019

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz Would you please explain how the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) works in simple terms? Who pays and … Read More

Featured image: Why we need to cut emissions as well as prepare for impacts

Why we need to cut emissions as well as prepare for impacts

Guest Author • Aug 21, 2019

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz First, let’s accept climate change is happening and will have major negative impacts on New Zealand. Second, let’s also … Read More

Featured image: Why plants don’t simply grow faster with more carbon dioxide in air

Why plants don’t simply grow faster with more carbon dioxide in air

Guest Author • Aug 16, 2019

Climate: Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz Carbon dioxide is a fertiliser for plants, so if its concentration increases in the atmosphere then plants will grow … Read More

Featured image: Will we be less healthy because of climate change?

Will we be less healthy because of climate change?

Guest Author • Aug 15, 2019

Climate: Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz Do you expect an increase in health issues due to the effects of climate change? – a question from … Read More