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Victoria University of Wellington

Mantle’s melting moment – In the News

In the News  |  Published: 06 July 201703 August 2018

New Zealand scientists have used GPS data to better understand how the Earth’s mantle is melting deep below the North […]

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Inbreeding threatens island’s kiwi – In the News

In the News  |  Published: 19 January 201711 April 2018

Newly-published research from New Zealand researchers has found a Marlborough kiwi population thought to be thriving is actually threatened by […]

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Tūhoe and scientists collaborate on dinosaur hunt – In the news

In the News  |  Published: 07 July 201603 May 2017

Ngāi Tūhoe and palaeontologists have teamed up to go digging for dinosaurs and understand more about how these animals lived in […]

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Kiwi scientists discover how Earth’s plates move

In the News  |  Published: 05 February 201528 March 2016

New Zealand researchers have developed the clearest picture yet of what happens at the base of tectonic plates and how […]

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Dom Post: Coral faces killer ‘worse than climate change’

In the News  |  Published: 27 May 2010

Kiran Chug writes in the Dominion Post about Victoria University research showing that sea snails are having a worse effect […]

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