Environment
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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Environment
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
