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Suppressing data won’t stop threat of flu weapon – expert
The New Zealand Government should not support efforts by United States regulators to suppress details in scientific reports of Dutch […]
Continue readingPicking winners in troubled waters – marine reserves
Designating ecologically-poor slabs of the ocean — which miners and fishers don’t want — as marine protected areas (MPA) is […]
Continue readingTime is running out – NZ scientists say why limiting global warming to 2degC is important
As delegates at the United Nations climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, negotiate what — if any — binding […]
Continue readingNZ Expert: “Slow” progress at Durban climate talks
A New Zealand energy expert who has just arrived back from the COP17 climate talks in Durban, says progress during […]
Continue readingExperts on factors which influence brain development in-utero and after birth
You are what you eat – so we are told, but can nutrition have an impact on how brainy your […]
Continue readingCoral Sea: “Don’t worry about a couple of degrees” – professor
Warming of the oceans may not be as terrible an experience for fish in some waters which are already warm […]
Continue readingAcademic: Are penguins and coral reefs enough to stop the coal burning?
A leading Australian researcher, Queensland University ecologist Professor Hugh Possingham, turned the tables on media at a briefing in Auckland […]
Continue reading‘Last Ocean’ concerns canvassed at conservation think tank
Some of the 250 international scientists gathered in Auckland for a world conference on conservation biology, have just spent three […]
Continue readingEmissions rose as economy weakened – experts respond
Correspondence published today in the journal Nature Climate and undertaken by the Global Carbon Project, shows that CO2 emissions increased […]
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