Nearly a year ago, Education Minster Anne Tolley announced the scrapping of a mandate for healthy foods in schools: “As […]
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Dom Post: Methane research is ballooning
Kiran Chug of The Dominion Post reports on ongoing efforts to measure pastoral greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, AgResearch is using […]
Continue readingThe Press: Fumigant danger to DNA
Helen Murdoch of The Press reports on recent research showing that methyl bromide could have a damaging effect on DNA. […]
Continue readingRadio NZ: Shaun Hendy on the Higgs boson
Dr Shaun Hendy, of VUW, IRL and the MacDiarmid Institute, talks with Bryan Crump about the Large Hadron Collider and […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: 10 big questions on climate change answered
Weather analyst for the NZ Herald Philip Duncan poses 10 of climate change’s big questions to Dr James Renwick, Principal […]
Continue readingODT: Sexed-up science
An editorial in the Otago Daily Times discusses science’s increasing efforts to become ‘sexier’ and woo public opinion. However, it […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Forget fickle polls and act, says climate lawyer
Eloise Gibson of the NZ Herald writes about Dr Klaus Bosselmann, director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Stalemate on Glaciergate
The NZ Herald features an article looking at the recent Glaciergate controversy, in which the IPCC incorrectly claimed in a […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: US science delegation visit, Himalayan glaciers and NZ publishing flurry
Clinton’s science advisor jets in Expect New Zealand’s unease with genetic modification and options for alternative energy production to be […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: The upside of climate change
Brian Fallow writing in the Business section of the NZ Herald discusses the upside of climate change: the economic potential […]
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