Farmers and growers work hard to manage their impact on water quality, changing grazing and fertilizer management practices, planting trees, fencing riverbanks and wetlands, and putting sediment traps in place. But…
Many local governments in Aotearoa New Zealand have, over the past 10 years, invited community members to collaborate on water management decisions. Giving people who’ll be affected by new rules…
In 2020, news headlines have been dominated by global crises – the Australian wildfires, the Covid-19 pandemic, even locusts and murder hornets. Amid this stream of relentlessly apocalyptic news, one…
Could New Zealand’s food future include oat milk and cow’s milk sourced from the same land? It’s an intriguing question that’s not as far-fetched as it sounds. We’re all familiar…
Over the summer of 2019–2020, Pūhoro STEM Academy supported 14 work experience and STEM internships for Year 13 students and first-year tertiary students, with the support of the Our Land…
The Covid-19 pandemic has reminded us our own well-being is intimately connected to other people and our natural environment. For many people, living in a small lockdown bubble for weeks…
Dr Jenny Webster-Brown will be the next director of the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge, after current director Ken Taylor retires on May 29. She joins Our Land…
Back in 2014, MS Srinivasan – a NIWA principal scientist and co-leader of Our Land and Water’s Sources and Flows programme – had a problem. As hydrology leader of a…
In New Zealand’s soils, phosphorus does a great job at growing plants but unfortunately it does the same thing if it makes it into our water. Research from the Our…
Rural New Zealanders are first to experience the most challenging effects of climate change. Farmers and growers are already under extreme pressure from flashpoint climatic conditions in 2020, with drought…
Our Land and Water is proud to be backing Open Farms – a movement to reconnect urban and rural Kiwis through a nationwide open farm day on Sunday 1st March…
There are many ways to measure progress towards our goals as a country – but some are better than others. Choosing the best indicators is crucial when setting national targets…