Water quality in our rivers, streams, lakes and estuaries is deteriorating as land use, particularly by the agricultural sector intensifies. […]
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Text-based Q&As and media briefings with experts on topical issues in the science and technology world.
The consequences of more acidic oceans
The world’s oceans absorb around one third of the carbon released into the atmosphere as a result of human activities […]
Continue readingSMC Briefing: Bovine genome sequenced and released
New Zealand scientists are among an international group of researchers who have sequenced the cow genome in its entirety and […]
Continue readingDrilling back in time in the name of climate science
Can looking at samples of five million year-old rock sediment tell us the consequences of warming the earth by pumping […]
Continue readingSMC Briefing: Biosecurity – heading off the threats
LISTEN ONLINE: MEDIA BRIEFING: Tuesday, 10 March 10.30am As an isolated, island nation, New Zealand has managed to keep at […]
Continue readingSMC Briefing: Eco-labels – a threat to New Zealand?
An audio briefing for journalists on food miles and eco-labeling and the economic implications for New Zealand exports. Log-in to […]
Continue readingWhy aren’t we immunising our kids? An SMC briefing
There is a real problem in New Zealand with immunisation rates, as highlighted in the Unicef’s State of the World’s […]
Continue readingNIWA’s climate outlook to April
La Niña continues, with mild conditions nationally, and likely dry in the south NIWA – A moderate La Niña in […]
Continue readingInteresting dairy farming statistics from DairyNZ 07-08 report
The 2007-08 report from Dairy NZ and Livestock Improvement Corporation has some interesting statistics about the dairy industry in New […]
Continue readingPredicting the weather – what’s involved?
by Motoko Kakubayashi The philosopher Aristotle once mused that weather is the second greatest problem to man, second only to […]
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