Prominent psychiatrist Professor David Nutt has been touring New Zealand giving lectures about his view that illegal drugs should be […]
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Much of Deepwater Horizon spilled oil gone
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill appears to be largely over, with news that three quarters of the oil released during […]
Continue readingNZ Farmers Weekly: Warmer, drier and more floods
Annette Scott writes in the New Zealand Farmers Weekly about the effects climate change is expected to have on New […]
Continue readingWairarapa News: Farmer creates own smartphone application
Piers Fuller writes in the Wairarapa News about a farmer who has developed a smartphone application – IFarmer – designed […]
Continue readingDom Post: Fish skin nano-fibres power Revolution
Peter Kerr writes in the Dominion Post about work by a company who says they can turn discarded hoki skins […]
Continue readingMedia coverage: swine flu
Following the outbreak of a highly infectious virus (now confirmed as swine flu) in the Wairarapa in the last few […]
Continue readingODT/NZPA: NZ research targets lungs for hookworm immunity
Researchers at the Malaghan Institute (Wellington) have made a discovery which could hasten the development of a vaccine for hookworm. […]
Continue readingDom Post: Schools swine flu clear out
Tanya Katterns writes in the Dominion Post about a highly contagious virus, thought to be H1N1 flu, which is emptying […]
Continue readingRadio NZ: Near-deaths while giving birth preventable – study
A University of Otago study has found that around a third of near-deaths in pregnant/just-delivered women may have been preventable. […]
Continue reading3 News/NZPA:NZ stars in global census of marine biodiversity
New Zealand’s waters have been identified as a hotspot for marine biodiversity, according to a global census on the subject. […]
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