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Dom Post: Coral faces killer ‘worse than climate change’

Kiran Chug writes in the Dominion Post about Victoria University research showing that sea snails are having a worse effect on Pacific coral reefs than climate change. The snails in question,...

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Kiwi scientists discover how Earth’s plates move

New Zealand researchers have developed the clearest picture yet of what happens at the base of tectonic plates and how they move across Earth’s surface in a study published in Nature today. Credit:...

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Tūhoe and scientists collaborate on dinosaur hunt – In the news

Ngāi Tūhoe and palaeontologists have teamed up to go digging for dinosaurs and understand more about how these animals lived in New Zealand. Elasmosaurus skull discovered by Joan Wiffen. [Photo: GNS...

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Inbreeding threatens island’s kiwi – In the News

Newly-published research from New Zealand researchers has found a Marlborough kiwi population thought to be thriving is actually threatened by the ‘silent effects’ of inbreeding. Dr Helen Taylor and a...

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Dom Post: Coral faces killer ‘worse than climate change’

Kiran Chug writes in the Dominion Post about Victoria University research showing that sea snails are having a worse effect on Pacific coral reefs than climate change. The snails in question,...

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Kiwi scientists discover how Earth’s plates move

New Zealand researchers have developed the clearest picture yet of what happens at the base of tectonic plates and how they move across Earth’s surface in a study published in Nature today. Credit:...

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Tūhoe and scientists collaborate on dinosaur hunt – In the news

Ngāi Tūhoe and palaeontologists have teamed up to go digging for dinosaurs and understand more about how these animals lived in New Zealand. Elasmosaurus skull discovered by Joan Wiffen. [Photo: GNS...

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Inbreeding threatens island’s kiwi – In the News

Newly-published research from New Zealand researchers has found a Marlborough kiwi population thought to be thriving is actually threatened by the ‘silent effects’ of inbreeding. Dr Helen Taylor and a...

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Mantle’s melting moment – In the News

New Zealand scientists have used GPS data to better understand how the Earth’s mantle is melting deep below the North Island’s volcanoes. The study, published today in Nature, used GeoNet’s GPS sensors...

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