"Ko te Āhuarangi, Ko te Mātauranga: How Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi Is Arming Rangatahi for the Climate Crisis" - 6 April 2026

The Crown is cutting NIWA. Gutting Callaghan. Quietly defunding the science that protects our coasts.

And an iwi wānanga just said: fine. We'll do it ourselves.

Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi has built Earth Science Kete — physical toolkits putting sea-level experiments, earthquake shake tables, and food resilience tools directly into the hands of rangatahi whose marae may be underwater in their lifetimes.

$300,000 of seed funding doing what $1.2 billion of Crown science reform refuses to.

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