Wrangling over water issues Polluted rivers, dirty dairying, greening the MacKenzie Country, dams for hydro-power and water allocation — these […]
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Latest review backs IPCC report findings, calls for more transparency
A major review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth assessment report by the Netherlands Environment Agency wrapped up […]
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Q+A’s Paul Holmes interviews the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor Professor Sir Peter Gluckman about the Global Research Alliance, an […]
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The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, has asked that the work of the IPCC be reviewed by the world’s science agencies. […]
Continue readingAustralian scientists on climate change confusion
The Australian Science Media Centre rounded up questions on climate science from journalists and put them to leading scientists in […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: Nutrigenomics, IPCC errors and DNA forensics
Nutrigenomics – what is it exactly? Genes, diet and gut health will be the focus of discussion in Auckland next […]
Continue readingNewsletter digest: DNA forensic pioneer, LCT’s govt funding and climate science’s future
DNA Pioneer in SMC briefing As New Zealand forensic scientists prepare to mark 20 years of DNA testing in New […]
Continue readingExpert reaction to the launch of the Climate Change Emails inquiry
Last year saw the start of the ‘Climategate’ email controversy, in which it was claimed that top climate scientists from […]
Continue readingDom Post: Kiwi aids climate-change research overhaul
Kiran Chug of the Dominion Post reports that a local scientist, Professor Martin Manning, is part of an international team […]
Continue reading‘IPCC: Cherish it, tweak it, scrap it?’ – scientists respond
In response to intensifying calls for reform of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), five influential climatologists have stepped […]
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