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Five well-publicised geoengineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change in the polar regions are "extremely ...

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The Government will be changing aspects to New Zealand's higher education system, informed by a recently released report by ...

An open letter signed by more than twenty AI experts calls on the government to better regulate the new technology, pointing to low trust and possible harms. The Science Media Centre asked the authors ...

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Birds around the world are singing for nearly an hour longer on average due to light pollution, a global study finds. Millions of birdsong recordings including some from NZ’s North Island were used in ...

Negotiators have failed to agree on a legally-binding global plastics treaty at the UN. The treaty was an attempt to curb the effects of the 450 megatonnes of plastic produced every year. Of that ...