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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…

Dec 2022

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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…

Dec 2022

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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…

Nov 2022

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Te Kopi in Palliser Bay (Kawa Kawa)

A bit of digging recently unearthed some little-known but quite exciting Wairarapa colonial history. Some ancient Māori settlement, inter-tribal warfare, shipwrecks, a…

Oct 2022

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Under the Martinborough Stars

Have you ever wondered how astronomers know what objects in space are made of? Since it’s inconvenient to impossible to travel to…

Sept 2022

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Pukaha rabbit alliance

Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre has launched a new brand for the Pūkaha Rabbit Alliance Ringa Atawhai me te Ringa Ahuwhenua. The Department…

Sept 2022

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Electric buses arrive

Award winning New Zealand family-owned bus and tourism company, Tranzit Group whose head office remains in Wairarapa, converted the bus from diesel…

Sept 2022

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South Wairarapa Biodiversity Group (SWBG)

The community group SWBG has been going for more than 10 years now, with the main activity in recent times being planting…

Aug 2022

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Tips of life 

Droplets that accumulate on the ends of leaves offer more than hydration for insects. A new study has found that they are…

July 2022

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Wairarapa bananas?

Bananas are far and away the most popular fruit in New Zealand – apples are a distant second. But the vast majority…

July 2022

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Under The Martinborough Stars.

I’m Chris. I’m the new owner of Under The Stars. When I was 6 years old my dad kept me up late…

July 2022

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Matariki cluster

Te Papa has provided this photo of the Matariki Star Cluster. It can be seen rising in the north east around the…

July 2022

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