Environment
Night light outside: charting the good, the bad and the ugly
Light pollution round the world is making the darkness above the earth “literally disappear,” and taking with it the ability of people…
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Did You Know?
That the moon has earthquakes too. The moon is shrinking getting more than 50 metres skinnier over the last several 100 million…
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Under the Martinborough Star
If you are a resident of South Wairarapa, by now you have most likely heard of a dark sky reserve. If you…
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Saving the seeds at Koanga Institute
For 35 years the Koanga Institute has been collecting and cultivating heritage food plants and saving the seeds from them to sell…
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Farewell voyagers
The Voyager space probes – Voyagers 1 and 2 – that are heading out of our galaxy and off after a 45-year…
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Geological Field trip to the Tora coast
Following up on the talk by Climate Paleontologist Chris Hollis in Martinborough last month the Aorangi Restoration Trust is organizing a day…
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Dark Sky accreditation for South Wairarapa
After five years of hard work by a small group of volunteers, the South Wairarapa and Carterton Districts have been formally certified…
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Talk on the remarkable geology on the Tora Coast
If you know what to look for in a geological sense, there are some remarkable things about our east coast at Tora.…
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Coke sponsors Cop
It’s either madness or genius for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to announce the world’s largest fossil fuel plastic…
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Charge for polluting cars to cover whole of London from August
Drivers must pay £12.50 per day if their vehicles do not meet requirements on cleaner emissions A £12.50 (aprox. $25.00) daily charge…
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Rolls-Royce and easyJet test is breakthrough for hydrogen fuel in air travel
Rolls-Royce and EasyJet have conducted the world’s first successful test of a modern jet engine powered by hydrogen.The two companies carried out…
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Heading in wrong direction
Scientists warn world ‘is heading in wrong direction’ amid rise in nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane Atmospheric levels of all three…
