Carbon trading and fraudulent credits: New Zealand's dangerous game
by Dr George Preddey [Ed: The Morgan Foundation today released a report examining New Zealand’s use of “fraudulent” carbon credits purchased from the Ukraine. This piece from physicist Dr George Preddey pre-dates the release of the Morgan Foundation report but covers the same ground and comes to the same conclusions…] It is self-evident to this […]
MoreBook review: Pacific – The Ocean of the Future
I took incredible pleasure in slowly working through Simon Winchester’s new book Pacific, which serves as a sort of companion piece to his 2010 effort Atlantic. And what better a place to delve into a book about the world’s greatest ocean than in the middle of that ocean – Tahiti, where I was lucky enough to spend […]
MoreClimate focus
Victoria University’s Pacific Climate Change Conference will be held February 15 – 17 in Wellington and proves timely with Pacific nations making up a vocal minority at last month’s COP21 climate negotiations in Paris. Line-ups for the conference is below… check out the website for more details. Sciblogs writer Dr Sarah-Jane O’Connor will be filing some […]
MoreExploring Indochina – a series
In September – October 2015, I completed a fantastic cycling trip through Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, taking in such wonderful sights as Angkor Wat, Phnom Penh, the Mekong Delta, Ho Chi Minh City and rural Thailand along the way. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be posting a series of blogs and photos from that […]
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