Tessa Evans, Author at Science Media Centre

Expert Reactions | Published: 11 November 201912 November 2019

Devastating bushfires along the New South Wales and Queensland coastline have caused the loss of more than 150 homes and […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 07 November 201908 November 2019

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) Simon Upton has reviewed our environmental reporting system and found it wanting. In […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 07 November 201906 November 2019

US researchers have developed a new reversible contraceptive microneedle patch that slowly releases the hormone levonorgestrel over the course of […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 06 November 201908 November 2019

Mission control for an international space mission to locate and measure global methane emissions will be based in New Zealand. […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 17 October 201930 October 2019

Our oceans and coasts are feeling the pressure on all fronts as the cumulative effects of climate change, biodiversity loss, and human activities […]

In the News | Published: 23 September 2019

After several delays, the first set of data from the 2018 Census was released today including data on electoral population, dwelling counts […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 18 September 201917 September 2019

Researchers have found black carbon particles in the placenta of pregnant women exposed to air pollution during pregnancy. In a […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 17 September 201918 September 2019

The government has released the report of an independent inquiry into the fuel supply disruption caused by the rupture of a key […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 03 September 201904 September 2019

Our health sector is overly complicated and fragmented, according to a panel charged with reviewing the way healthcare works in New Zealand. The […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 23 August 201923 August 2019

Huge swathes of the Amazon rainforest are on fire with smoke from the fires clearly visible from space. There have […]