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Annual reports for all eight Crown Research Institutes were tabled in parliament yesterday. Here are links to the reports that have been published online so far:
Scion annual report 2009
AgResearch annual report 2009
Industrial Research Ltd. annual report 2009
NIWA annual report 2009
Plant & Food Research annual report 2009
Wrangling over water issues
Polluted rivers, dirty dairying, greening the MacKenzie Country, dams for hydro-power and water allocation — these are just some of the big water issues that have been in the headlines in recent months.
Although freshwater is relatively abundant in New Zealand, uneven distribution of water resources and increasingly intensive use have led to [...]
At over 2000 kilometers long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
