The Press and the Dominion Post have already run their pre-Copenhagen features, today it was the turn of the New Zealand Herald. One feature of today’s coverage was a Herald graphic developed by seasoned Herald designers Richard Dale and Andrew Louis, which breaks down the emissions profile of New Zealand. I have the original MfE […]
MoreEither the hired help tasked with setting up the conference facilities for COP15 have been worked a little too hard or the organisers are looking to ghoulish artwork to make an impact on Obama and company when they turn up to talk emissions reduction. Photo courtesy of Nigel Kerby of the AusSMC, which is on […]
MoreStatistics New Zealand has just released some data looking at the financial performance of the Crown Research Institutes, information that comes at a sensitive time, as the CRI Taskforce prepares to finalise its recommendations on the future of the Government-owned research institutions. From a business spoint of view, and lets face it, the CRIs are […]
MoreChannel 4 News with the assistance of my colleagues at the Science Media Centre in London, approached the scientific community in the UK to get their views on how best to tackle climate change. Here’s what Channel 4 News asked scientists: “What idea, policy or technology holds the greatest promise for tackling climate change?” Their […]
MoreThe Listener has just published its list of the most powerful and influential people in the country and have included a subcategory on science and technology. I’m happy to say three of the five suggestions the Science Media Centre made to the Listener ended up on the list. Science & technology: 1: Sir Peter Gluckman […]
MoreIt hasn’t been a great year for New Zealand’s genetic modification research efforts, even if viewed from a purely “PR” point of view. Last December, the anti-GM environmental group the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand had a poke around Crop & Food’s GM brassica trial going on at the company’s campus at Lincoln […]
MoreWhat a horrible week. I haven’t known anything like it in the time the Science Media Centre has been operating and I’ve been immersed in all things scientific. In the week since the emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit appeared on the internet we’ve seen bloggers, newspaper columnists, letter to the […]
MoreI’ve been looking for a good, easy to read document outlining the latest climate science research and putting it in context for Copenhagen and I think I’ve found it. Today in Sydney, the Climate Change Research Centre, a unit of the University of New South Wales, released The Copenhagen Diagnosis. It’s free to download or […]
MoreI was only able to briefly duck into the roundtable on genomics that took place in Wellington today, but the fragments of discussion I listened in on were fascinating to say the least. We’ve all heard of 23 and Me, the San Francisco-based company that allows you to set up your own genetic test via […]
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