An article in the Dominion Post by Ruth Hill looking at the New Zealand Government’s planned approach to a vaccination […]
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Sunday Star Times: New Zealand’s hunger for palm kernel
An investigation by the Sunday Star Time‘s reporter Kim Knight into the importation into New Zealand from Malaysia and Indonesia […]
Continue readingHerald on Sunday: Time to declare outright war on P
Broadcaster and commentator Paul Holmes responding to Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman’s suggestion that over-the-counter sale of drugs […]
Continue readingSouthland Times: Govt jumps on board SKA bid
A piece in the Southland Times on the Government’s official support of Australia’s big to host the Square Kilometre Array. […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Hungry bugs could slash animal-gas danger
In the fight to reduce New Zealand’s methane emissions, some tiny organisms could be major contenders. Eloise Gibson of the […]
Continue readingStuff Technology: Google ‘evangelist’ sees web, brain implant link
Vint Cerf, vice-president of Google, is visiting New Zealand to speak at a conference on the looming lack of web […]
Continue readingNZ Herald:Waste plastics pose toxic threat in oceans
Steve Connor of the New Zealand Herald writes about the newest threat posed to our oceans: the chemicals produced when […]
Continue readingDominion Post: Stretching international boundaries
An opinion piece by science writer Marilyn Head, looking at the joint Australian-New Zealand bid for the Square Kilometre Array […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: New Zealand to take lead in emissions initiative
An article in the New Zealand Herald by Fran O’Sullivan outlining a research-based global alliance to reduce agricultural emissions. An […]
Continue readingNational: Measles kids face school ban
The Ministry of Health has invoked previously-unused powers in order to deal with the threat of a measles epidemic. Its […]
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