Reflections on Science

Reflections on Science | Published: 26 September 201720 August 2018

2017 has been a sizzler for Australia, showing global warming is alive and well, but as Dr Jim Salinger writes […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 24 August 201705 July 2018

Deputy Director of the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre Dr Andy Reisinger offers a rebuttal in the NZ […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 04 July 2017

Massey University’s Dr Andy Towers is tired of hearing that New Zealand has a ‘youth drinking culture’, he writes in […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 08 June 201703 August 2018

Two environmental issues have dominated the news so far this election year, both focused on waterways, writes Massey University’s Associate […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 01 June 201703 August 2018

The immense polarisation of opinions on immunisation has been highlighted through the response to Dr Lance O’Sullivan’s protest of an […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 24 April 201703 August 2018

We can have a profitable agricultural sector and protect the environment, writes AgResearch chief executive Tom Richardson, we just need to […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 19 April 201703 August 2018

Events like floods and droughts are not just figures in Treasury spreadsheets, writes Professor Dave Frame, the risks of them […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 18 April 201730 April 2017

Massey University’s Associate Professor Ian Fuller says we need to build up knowledge of past flood events so that we […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 14 March 201703 August 2018

Should New Zealand follow the Australian ‘no jab, no pay’ model to boost immunisation rates? Nikki Turner from the Immunisation […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 13 March 201703 August 2018

Following the Port Hills fire, re-planting quickly and correctly is crucial, writes Landcare Research chief scientist Fiona Carswell. An excerpt […]