This piece examines the extreme rainfall and flooding in Wellington in 2026, linking the event to climate change, urban vulnerability, and the limitations of current infrastructure and emergency response.
How the framings classify across 5 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 17 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.
directly linked to warmer oceans and atmosphere
An ‘ordinary’ storm with extraordinary impacts: what made Wellington’s deluge so intense?costly double standards and deception
$5 billion in carbon credits – the true cost of this Government’s slavish capitulation to farmers, gutting public transport, reneging on Irex Ferries and protecting big pollutersSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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