Maritime experts battling the toxic tide that has been labelled as the nation’s worst oil spill are expecting easterly winds […]
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Experts: compelling public health case for fluoridation
Water fluoridation is back in the news today with reports that the Hutt City Council is to discuss water fluoridation […]
Continue readingRena oil spill: Experts on environmental impact, clean-up
Maritime New Zealand continues to lead an effort to stabilise the stranded cargo ship Rena, but has been hampered by […]
Continue readingRena: experts on oil dispersants and natural breakdown
UPDATE: Winds now pushing oil onto the Bay of Plenty coast could turn offshore on Thursday, forecasters say. State science […]
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The grounding of the Rena container ship on the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty poses a substantial environmental […]
Continue readingWild GM Canola in United States
American research has shown that genetically modified canola plants grow outside of defined cultivation areas and that the plant’s modified […]
Continue readingMarsden Fund recipients announced
Glaciers, neurobiology, Maori TV and algebra are just a few of the subjects to explored by the recipients of this […]
Continue readingNiwa scientists map an online atlas for climate change
Two of NIWA’s principal scientists have launched a “primer” for their proposal to create a New Zealand Climate Change Atlas […]
Continue readingNobel Prize for Chemistry – experts respond
Israeli physicist Daniel Shechtman was last night awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his discovery of “quasicrystals” in metals […]
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