Between 30 and 70 containers have fallen from the MV Rena which is grounded on the Astrolabe reef near Tauranga […]
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Sea change expected as toxic tide hits
Maritime experts battling the toxic tide that has been labelled as the nation’s worst oil spill are expecting easterly winds […]
Continue readingExperts: compelling public health case for fluoridation
Water fluoridation is back in the news today with reports that the Hutt City Council is to discuss water fluoridation […]
Continue readingRena oil spill: Experts on environmental impact, clean-up
Maritime New Zealand continues to lead an effort to stabilise the stranded cargo ship Rena, but has been hampered by […]
Continue readingRena: experts on oil dispersants and natural breakdown
UPDATE: Winds now pushing oil onto the Bay of Plenty coast could turn offshore on Thursday, forecasters say. State science […]
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Continue readingWild GM Canola in United States
American research has shown that genetically modified canola plants grow outside of defined cultivation areas and that the plant’s modified […]
Continue readingNobel Prize for Chemistry – experts respond
Israeli physicist Daniel Shechtman was last night awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his discovery of “quasicrystals” in metals […]
Continue readingExperts on use of cloning to make human stem cells
In a world first, scientists in the US have used a cloning technique to derive embryonic stem cells from human […]
Continue readingAstrophysicists awarded Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a group of astronomers whose research revealed that the universe is […]
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