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Cleantech illustration by Jericho Jayme

7 November 2024

Feature: Now, more than ever, we need to develop new, ‘clean’ technologies that help create a more environmentally sustainable future. Owen Poland meets academic and alumni innovators in New Zealand’s fast-growing cleantech sector.

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  • Cleantech illustration by Jericho Jayme

    7 November 2024

    Feature: Now, more than ever, we need to develop new, ‘clean’ technologies that help create a more environmentally sustainable future. Owen Poland meets academic and alumni innovators in New Zealand’s fast-growing cleantech sector.

  • Tui on kowhai tree in flower

    1 November 2024

    Opinion: Aotearoa New Zealand is a biodiversity hotspot, defined as a global centre of high biodiversity with a high proportion of species under threat. So where was New Zealand at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Colombia?

  • Image of orange mushrooms growing, found in New Zealand

    26 October 2024

    Opinion: Even though we have known about fungi for hundreds of years, they've only been officially recognised since 1969. But where would we be without them, wonders Maj Padamsee.

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Health and medicine

  • Dr Renee Liang MNZM and editor plus junior doctor Loredan Podolska-Kint at the launch in CBR.

    12 November 2024

    The Poetical Lobe Anthology comprises verse penned by people with neurological conditions.

  • HPV infection

    11 November 2024

    Opinion: The WHO has adopted the Global Strategy for Cervical Cancer Elimination with Rwanda and Scotland leading the way in achieving that goal, while New Zealand is dragging the chain says Helen Petousis-Harris.

  • Young woman bending down and holding hand over mouth

    8 November 2024

    Analysis: Infectious diseases specialist Mark Thomas explains what to look out for if something you’ve eaten has gone down wrong and, as it did recently with over 100 university students, comes back up.

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