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Rebecca Todd writes in The Press about new research from Canterbury University showing that children with asthma are more likely […]
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Brian Fallow writes in the New Zealand Herald about the aftermath of the Cancun climate change talks, and the extent […]
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As summer holidays approach — and the appeal of fad diets grows amongst people aiming to slim down quickly — […]
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Michael Field writes for Stuff about NIWA’s quarterly seasonal climate outlook, and why accurately forecasting weather out past 16 days […]
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Ian Spellerberg and Jeff McNeely write, in an opinion piece in The Press, write about biodiversity: an issue of at […]
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Over the weekend, delegates at UN climate talks adopted the ‘Cancun Agreements‘, laying the groundwork for an extension to Kyoto […]
Continue readingMedia coverage: Deal struck at Cancun
Governments from all over the world have struck a deal at COP16, the sixteenth UN conference on climate change, held […]
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Adam Dudding writes in the Sunday Star Times about New Zealand scientist Peter Schwerdtfeger, who was recently awarded the prestigious […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: Seismic hazards, lignite and hydrogen, and SCANZ 2011
“Plenty more earthquakes” to come Canterbury University engineering expert Professor Andy Buchanan wasn’t mincing his words in this week’s Science […]
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