by Vincent Heeringa | Mar 31, 2023 | Opinion
Imagining the future used to be the job of miserable sci-fi writers. Think killer robots, toxic fungi, alien probes. But stand aside, Asimov. Thanks to new government rules, all New Zealand industries must now engage in some crystal-ball gazing to imagine how they...
by Editor | Mar 29, 2023 | News
Bianca Le, The University of Melbourne It didn’t get much attention when US President Joe Biden launched a biomanufacturing initiative last September. But it should have. Biomanufacturing is about harnessing nature’s factories – cells – to make just about anything....
by Editor | Mar 22, 2023 | News
In the wake of revelations that Chris Hipkins’ chief of staff, Andrew Kirton, lobbied against the Container Return Scheme on behalf of the liquor industry shortly before the scheme was scrapped by the Prime Minister, Greenpeace is calling for the scheme to be...
by Editor | Mar 16, 2023 | News
Greenpeace is turning the headquarters of Fonterra into a virtual flood zone this morning, in a climate protest in downtown Auckland. Police have just arrived on the scene. Piles of abandoned flood-damaged furniture are being placed at the doors of the dairy giant to...
by Editor | Feb 28, 2023 | Opinion
Cyclone Gabrielle hit New Zealand’s main fruit-growing region hard – now orchardists face critical climate choices. To recover or to reinvent, asks Anita Wreford, of Lincoln University Hawke’s Bay, one of New Zealand’s most productive regions and the hub of the...
