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Hot summer causing early snow melt – In the News

In the News  |  Published: 31 January 201811 April 2018

University of Otago researchers have just returned from one of New Zealand’s largest ice fields – the Gardens of Eden […]

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ODT: Climate change may favour resort

In the News  |  Published: 15 February 2010

Joanne Carroll of the Otago Daily Times reports that climate change could in fact benefit Queenstown’s tourism industry as many […]

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Dinosaur footprints discovered in the South Island

In the News  |  Published: 09 November 2009

70 million-year-old dinosaur footprints have been discovered in New Zealand’s South Island, in northwest Nelson, by GNS Science geologist Greg […]

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Massive Fiordland quake triggers tsunami alert

In the News  |  Published: 16 July 200916 July 2009

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the coast of Fiordland last night has made international headlines. The quake occurred at 9:22 […]

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