By the CNN Wire Staff8 January 2012 (CNN) – A cargo ship that ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand last year has split in two, spewing debris and triggering the possibility of a new oil spill, officials said Sunday. Hundreds of tonnes of oil have already leaked from the ship, […]
By Vicki Waterhouse, Fairfax NZ News7 January 2012 Four more penguins have been brought into Massey University’s wildlife centre in Palmerston North as oil from the stricken Rena continues to cause havoc on the Tauranga coastline. Staff from Massey University’s wildlife centre have been helping hundreds of oiled birds and animals in Tauranga since October […]
Presenter: Campbell CooneySpeaker: Tatuau Pese, secretary general, Tuvalu Red Cross 28 December 2011 Tuvalu and Kiribati will be amongst the island nations bracing for king tides. In January and February, the low lying atoll nations are hit by massive tides, which damage foreshore areas, destroy crops, and affect water supplies. Tuvalu is just recovering from […]
January 6 (NZH) – The Rena is set to be battered this weekend by some of the largest sea swells to hit the cargo ship since it grounded on the Astrolabe Reef on October 5. However officials are confident they have plans to deal with the worst-case scenario of the ship breaking up, and crews […]
In this world of 7 billion people, the global rural-urban balance of populations has tipped irreversibly in favour of cities. But what, exactly, is a “city” in 2011? Hania Zlotnik, the director of the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs cautions against assuming too easy a definition because governments […]
[The penguins are released at about 1:00.] The first of the little blue penguins, cleaned and recovered after the Rena oil spill, are released back to their home shores. Interview with lead vet at the National Oiled Wildlife Recovery Team. (C) WWF-New Zealand / Amy Taylor WWF film of NZ penguin release post oil-spill Technorati […]
Occasionally, the commercial mass media tip their hand and give us a glimpse of the Man Behind the Curtain. In this case, TIME magazine has posted the covers of its December 5th edition for different world markets, all on the same web page for easy comparison. The rest of the world gets to read about […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, November 13 (AP) – Salvage crews have successfully removed all the remaining oil from a cargo ship that ran aground on a New Zealand reef, avoiding a worse environmental disaster. The vessel Rena grounded on the Astrolabe reef near Tauranga on Oct. 5 and authorities feared the worst as about 385 tons […]
By Arlene Paredes10 November 2011 Locating devices called “pingers” have been fastened to cargoes aboard the ill-fated MV Rena as the salvage team moves to finish pumping oil off the grounded cargo vessel. It has been more than a month since the Rena accidentally hit a reef and got wedged in, crippling the vessel, and […]
November 07 (AAP) – New Zealand salvage experts are pumping seawater into the Rena’s hard-to-reach tank in a difficult and dangerous technique to finally rid the stricken ship of oil. The estimated 358 tonnes of heavy fuel oil remaining in the ship’s submerged starboard tank will be pumped out through three tonnes of hoses laid […]
