Claire Kaplan, Author at Science Media Centre

Expert Reactions | Published: 12 January 202120 January 2021

Last year was the seventh warmest on record for New Zealand, according to NIWA’s annual climate summary for 2020. It […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 18 December 202018 December 2020

Wildfire smoke has the potential to carry and spread infectious bacteria and fungi up to “hundreds of miles”, but more […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 10 December 202012 February 2021

The Science Media Centre led an online briefing about promising COVID-19 vaccine candidates, including the mRNA vaccine from Pfizer and […]

Blog | Published: 09 December 2020

The Aotearoa New Zealand Science Journalism Fund will offer up to $15,000 of funding for projects on native plants under […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 06 November 2020

A worldwide study of children aged 5-19 years found that kids in New Zealand are gaining more weight, and becoming […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 05 November 2020

Māori patients receive fewer prescriptions for common diabetes medication Metformin than non-Māori patients, and may have worse health as a […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 05 November 2020

New Zealand’s lockdown reduced wellbeing – particularly among young adults – according to a survey of 2,000 Kiwis taken in […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 03 November 2020

The Ministry of Health has released more details of the managed isolation staff member infected with COVID-19. The person is […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 30 October 2020

An international report looks at the link between the degradation of nature and increasing pandemic risks. The Intergovernmental Platform on […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 23 September 2020

Over 90 per cent of sheep and beef farmers surveyed acknowledge the benefits of managing biodiversity on their farmland, according […]