New Zealand is in the grip of a winter storm, with cold southerlies from Antarctica bringing snow, wind and hail. […]
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Crown Research Institutes – 2009 annual reports tabled
Annual reports for all eight Crown Research Institutes were tabled in parliament yesterday. Here are links to the reports that […]
Continue readingCovering Copenhagen: SMC travel grant – call for applications
With the Copenhagen climate conference in Denmark looming, it is far from clear whether the world’s nations will be able […]
Continue readingPM: Science should be “at the heart of Government”
Prime Minister John Key this evening launched the Primary Growth Partnership, which will inject funding into public-private research and development […]
Continue readingOECD report: Need to do better for New Zealand children
An OECD report released this week, Doing Better for Children, suggests New Zealand needs to lift its game in terms […]
Continue readingDraft Canterbury Water Management Strategy released
The Draft Canterbury Water Management Strategy was released today, and is up for public discussion. It is expected that a […]
Continue readingETS Review released: Trading scheme preferable to carbon tax
The Emissions Trading Scheme select committee set up by the Government to review the emissions trading framework put in place […]
Continue readingMacDiarmid: The best young scientists and their research
UPDATE: Click here to read about the MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year winners Tomorrow night will see the 2009 […]
Continue readingMoH: Latest HPV vaccination and adverse reaction statistics
Statement to Science Media Centre Uptake As at 31 July 2009, more than 81,000 New Zealand girls and young women […]
Continue readingDrilling back in time in the name of climate science
Can looking at samples of five million year-old rock sediment tell us the consequences of warming the earth by pumping […]
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