Kyoto focus in Cancun climate talks Predictably fraught negotiations appear to have dominated the COP16 climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, […]
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Newsletter Digest: Biodiversity, bariatric surgery and Running Hot
Biodiversity deal hangs in balance Representatives of 190 countries are working down to the wire at a UN Convention on […]
Continue readingLandmark ‘Census of Marine Life’ effort culminates today
The first-ever global Census of Marine Life will officially conclude today at a news conference in London, after a decade […]
Continue readingDom Post: Taking Kermadec arc off the mining map
Research, Science and Technology minister Wayne Mapp says he supports the protection of the Kermadec region, and hence the restriction […]
Continue readingDom Post: NZ wages battle for diversity
Kiran Chug writes in the Dominion Post about a two-day conference starting at Te Papa today in which scientists will […]
Continue reading‘What’s in the Sea?’ – Census of Marine Life marine biodiversity roll call
Representing the most comprehensive and authoritative answer yet to one of humanity’s most ancient questions — “What lives in the […]
Continue readingThe Press: Government ‘greenwash’ alleged
David Williams writes in The Press about unhappiness by environmental groups over the government’s national policy statement (NPS) on biodiversity. […]
Continue readingThe Press: New farms destroying native NZ
David Williams writes in The Press about research by Landcare suggesting that intensive farming is having an extremely negative effect […]
Continue readingTVNZ/NZPA: Scientists discredit Moa’s Ark theory
Scientists from Massey University are disputing the hypothesis that New Zealand’s flora and fauna have evolved without much external influence […]
Continue readingThe Press: Skinks slink to new home
David Williams reports in The Press on the moving of several endangered skinks to a new ‘skinkery’ which, it is […]
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