Stories by Farah Hancock
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Who's eating New Zealand?
There are only 5 million people in New Zealand but we produce enough food to feed about 40m. Who's gobbling all our goods?
Pakiri locals fight plans to take their sand for Auckland beaches
The fate of Pakiri's sand is again at the centre of a fight between sand mining companies who want to ship it to Auckland, and locals who want to keep it on their beach. Farah Hancock reports.
The environmental hangover from NZ's winemaking
Marlborough's wine industry is booming, but there's no industrial-sized solution to deal with its waste.
Fonterra discharging nitrogen-heavy water onto 'ghost farms'
Fonterra cleared the cows from 16 farms and is using the land to dispose of wastewater, which could be leaching a colourless, tasteless and odourless pollutant into private drinking water supplies.
Drinking water nitrate limit 11 times higher than it should be - health expert
New Zealand should reduce drinking water nitrate limits from 11.3mg/L to 1mg/L to curb bowel cancer, the country's second-highest cause of cancer death, a specialist says.
Abandoned toxic waste will take two years, $3m to clean up
It will cost $3 million to clear 1 million litres of chemicals, including flammable and toxic substances, sitting within metres of electricity lines which power the Marsden Point oil refinery.