Auckland Transport is having a six-week trial of small pets on all Auckland bus services from Boxing Day. The catch - they have to be in a carrier that sits on its owner's lap. AT's Group Manager of Metro Services, Darek Koper talks to Lisa Owen. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6316783927112

Auckland trials pets on buses, but must be in a carrier cage

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In her new book H Is for Hope, author Elizabeth Kolbert explores the landscape of climate change in a series of 26 animated essays arranged in alphabetical order-from "A", for Svante Arrhenius, who created the world's first climate model in 1894, to "Z", for the Colorado River Basin, ground zero for climate change in the United States. Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of several books, most notably Pulitzer Prize winner The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, which chronicled previous mass extinction events and compared them to the accelerated, widespread extinctions of our present time.

Elizabeth Kolbert: The A to Z of climate change

RNZ Pacific news at 9AM on 20 April 2024

Evidence indicates long covid presents a considerable burden to New Zealand: on our health system, sectors of the workforce and the economy. Between 4 and 14 percent of people infected with the virus will develop ongoing symptoms, anything from mild to severe. Scientists who conducted a recent evidence summary of long covid in Aotearoa are convinced its prevalence is likely to increase and preventative action is needed. Covid can change your DNA and your immune system and there is no cure for long Covid. Susie is joined by Jenene Crossan, founder of Long Covid Support Aotearoa and co-founder of the University of Auckland Long Covid Registry. Also Mona Jeffreys, epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, who advises on the Long Covid Registry.

Auckland trials pets on buses, but must be in a carrier cage

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