Environment
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…
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…
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…
Scientists warn world ‘is heading in wrong direction’ amid rise in nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane Atmospheric levels of all three…
A bit of digging recently unearthed some little-known but quite exciting Wairarapa colonial history. Some ancient Māori settlement, inter-tribal warfare, shipwrecks, a…
Have you ever wondered how astronomers know what objects in space are made of? Since it’s inconvenient to impossible to travel to…
Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre has launched a new brand for the Pūkaha Rabbit Alliance Ringa Atawhai me te Ringa Ahuwhenua. The Department…
Award winning New Zealand family-owned bus and tourism company, Tranzit Group whose head office remains in Wairarapa, converted the bus from diesel…
The community group SWBG has been going for more than 10 years now, with the main activity in recent times being planting…
Droplets that accumulate on the ends of leaves offer more than hydration for insects. A new study has found that they are…
Bananas are far and away the most popular fruit in New Zealand – apples are a distant second. But the vast majority…
I’m Chris. I’m the new owner of Under The Stars. When I was 6 years old my dad kept me up late…
Te Papa has provided this photo of the Matariki Star Cluster. It can be seen rising in the north east around the…