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NZ Media Coverage of Copenhagen – Dec 10/11
Stuff: New Zealand gets climate ‘fossil’ award NZ Herald: Philip Temple: Deniers don’t have a rapidly melting glacier to stand […]
Continue readingCOP15 update – Island states, space satellites, Google Earth and algae
On Day Three, signs of a rift among developing nations emerged as Tuvalu led a call for a new legally-binding […]
Continue readingAnimal to human transplants get the Aussie go-ahead
Australia has lifted the ban on research involving animal to human transplants. In 2004, NHMRC recommended that there should be […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Sustainable urban cities
On Tuesday night, respected architect Ian Athfield spoke on the subject of sustainable urban cities. His talk centred around how […]
Continue readingNZ Media Coverage of Copenhagen – Dec 9/10
NBR – Leveraging off Copenhagen reaches new height of logic Stuff National – NZ neutral on ‘Danish text’ The Press […]
Continue readingTVNZ/NZPA: Measles could be eliminated with vaccination
More funding for immunisation in New Zealand could have a significant effect, possibly eliminating measles and substantially reducing the incidence […]
Continue readingNBR: Insect repellents linked to male genital defects
The use of insect repellent by pregnant women has been implicated in an increasingly common male genetic defect – hypospadias. […]
Continue readingThe 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 […]
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