Expert Q&A

Expert Q&A | Published: 10 November 200912 November 2009

SMC ONLINE BRIEFING: 10 am Wednesday 11 November Next month, the world will gather in Copenhagen for the UN Climate […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 12 October 200912 October 2009

Biowaste is the unavoidable end-point of our civilisation. It’s made up of all of our waste, including biosolids (sewage sludge) […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 06 October 200920 October 2009

The Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, has been tasked with finding ways to fight New Zealand’s worsening methamphetamine […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 11 September 200915 September 2009

Virtual water – defined as the total amount of water used in the production of anything from a cup of […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 02 September 200903 September 2009

New Zealand’s approach to sustainability is fundamentally flawed according to a group of experts who say a radical overhaul of […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 11 August 200913 August 2009

As the world’s governments prepare to gather in Copenhagen to hammer out an agreement to lower greenhouse gas emissions, New […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 17 July 200919 June 2011

UPDATE: Living Cell Technologies, a New Zealand-based biotech firm, has just announced that it is commencing trials on a potentially […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 09 July 200909 July 2009

Hundreds of consumer products containing nanoparticles are already on the shelves, but almost nothing is known about their effects on […]

Expert Q&A, Expert Reactions | Published: 07 June 200906 July 2009

Water quality in our rivers, streams, lakes and estuaries is deteriorating as land use, particularly by the agricultural sector intensifies. […]

Expert Q&A, Expert Reactions | Published: 12 May 200920 May 2009

The world’s oceans absorb around one third of the carbon released into the atmosphere as a result of human activities […]