Switching up our building materials could store more than 16 billion tonnes of CO2 annually, according to a new study in ...

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New Zealand’s 10th-warmest year on record, according to NIWA'. Of New Zealand’s 10 warmest years on record, eight have occurred since 2013. The summary says this ongoing warming trend -- observed loca ...

A large magnitude shallow earthquake has caused strong shaking and fatalities from widespread destruction in Vanuatu. The quake struck 37km from the capital, Port Vila, and an initial tsunami warning ...

‘Siloed thinking’ is holding back solutions to biodiversity, human health, climate change, water, and food security, according to a new global report with New Zealand authors. The Nexus report is the ...

With the greyhound racing industry coming to an end, most of the 3,000 current racing dogs will be put up for adoption. The Science Media Centre asked an expert what prospective greyhound owners ...

This year saw massive policy changes in New Zealand’s science sector, with the coalition government changing tack on gene tech regulations, how it manages the natural environment, Māori-led healthcare ...

Food regulators want to streamline how they assess the growing range of lab-grown foods, starting with cell-cultured quail meat. Instead of going through the process of approving each new ...

Cocaine and methamphetamine have been detected at their highest ever rates in New Zealand’s wastewater. Wastewater testing data show the volume of drugs consumed within a given period but don’t show ...

Food regulators want to streamline how they assess the growing range of lab-grown foods, starting with cell-cultured quail meat. Instead of going through […] ...

Food regulators want to streamline how they assess the growing range of lab-grown foods, starting with cell-cultured quail meat. Instead of going through […] ...

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