The use of insect repellent by pregnant women has been implicated in an increasingly common male genetic defect – hypospadias. […]
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The climate index – one number to define the change
Scientists attending the COP15 conference in Copenhagen last night unveiled a Dow Jones-style “climate-change index” which aims to assign an […]
Continue readingCOP15 update – Climate index, coral reefs and the Danish texts
Day two at Copenhagen saw the release of the WMO’s last global temperature data, which suggests the current decade is […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: R&D ‘not enough to make innovation pay’
Brian Fallow of the New Zealand Herald reports on a paper from the New Zealand Institute which says that the […]
Continue readingODT: Help urged for stress of eco-farming
Neal Wallace of the Otago Daily Times on the increasing pressure felt by farmers to lessen their environmental impact. However, […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: World gets warmer as climate talks start
Eloise Gibson of the NZ Herald reports on a recent figures from the World Meteorological Organisation which suggest that this […]
Continue readingDom Post: Seismic survey using Kiwi software
Attempts to survey the Pegasus basin, as well as several other potentially oil-bearing subsea areas, are to be helped along […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Girl’s sight restored in NZ first
Martin Johnson from the NZ Herald reports on the results of a rare surgical procedure used to restore a NZ […]
Continue readingSunday Star Times: Picture imperfect
Kim Knight of the Sunday Star Times writes about recent international attention to New Zealand’s ‘clean green’ image, and the […]
Continue readingDom Post: Play on Darwin is the write stuff
Paul Easton of the Dominion Post writes about Collapsing Creation, a recently-penned (and performed) play which has just won an […]
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