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In the News

A wrap-up of the science stories grabbing headlines here and internationally.

NZ Herald: Climate debate adrift on rising tide of lunacy

In the News  |  Published: 13 August 2009

A column by New Zealand Herald columnist Chris Barton on the climate change debate much of which has boiled over […]

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NZ Herald: Inside a nuclear reactor

In the News  |  Published: 12 August 2009

Herald senior feature writer Chris Barton visits Grenoble nuclear power station and meets a New Zealander involved in particle physics… […]

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BSA Complaint against TV3’s ‘Let Us Spray’ doco upheld

In the News  |  Published: 10 August 200911 August 2009

A long-running complaints inquiry by the Broadcasting Standards Authority has just come to a conclusion, with the authority upholding complaints […]

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NZ Herald: Climate change – A ‘bigger threat than terrorism’

In the News  |  Published: 10 August 200910 August 2009

A series of piece’s from the Weekend Herald’s climate change special written by Chris Barton and Geoff Cumming. An excerpt: […]

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Measles spread continues

In the News  |  Published: 06 August 2009

The measles outbreak which first began in Christchurch in early July has now spread to Auckland. The outbreak, which began […]

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NZ Herald: Scientists on dog and fish deaths

In the News  |  Published: 06 August 2009

The latest coverage from the New Zealand Herald’s Eloise Gibson of the mysterious illness among dogs and sea life along […]

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Otago Daily Times: Climate trade-offs

In the News  |  Published: 04 August 200904 August 2009

An editorial in the Otago Daily Times looking at the hard decision ahead in setting a 2020 emissions reduction target […]

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Otago Daily Times: Farming groups reluctant to embrace GE

In the News  |  Published: 03 August 2009

An article by Neal Wallace in the Otago Daily TImes looking at the appetite among players in the agricultural sector […]

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NZ Herald: How the food industry buried the folic acid plan

In the News  |  Published: 27 July 2009

A New Zealand Herald article outlining how opposition from food industry groups helped defer mandatory fortification of bread with folic […]

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Devon Polaschek: Inside the mind of a killer

In the News  |  Published: 26 July 2009

Devon Polaschek, Associate Professor of Criminal Psychology in the School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, a forensic clinical psychologist […]

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